He once said
Only three people have silenced the Maracana. The Pope, Frank Sinatra and me.
He achieved lasting fame for scoring the winning goal in the final match of the 1950 World Cup to give Uruguay a stunning 2-1 victory over Brazil at the Maracana.
Identify this legendary footballer who passed away on 16th July 2015.
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Alcides Edgardo GhiggiaRoberto Muylaert compares the winning goal to the images of the Kennedy assassination. They both have ‘the same dramatic pattern, the same movement, the same precision of an unstoppable trajectory. They even have the dust in common that was stirred up, here by a rifle and there by Ghiggia's left foot.’