Pele looks to Brazil avenging \\\'Maracanazo\\\' in final
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
SAO PAULO, June 9 (AFP): Brazil avenging their traumatic 1950 World Cup final defeat by beating Uruguay in the final in July would be the ideal result said Brazilian legend Pele.
The 73-year-old three time World Cup winner said in answer tyo a question of whether he would like a Brazil v Argentina final on July 13 at the Maracana it would be much more to his taste to play Uruguay and beat them.
"I would prefer to have a Brazil v Uruguay final in order that we could avenge our defeat in 1950," Pele told a select group of journalists invited by FIFA to a bar in Sao Paulo.
The match earned the nickname the 'Maracanazo' on the back of it.