Ja, en Obdulio "El Negro Jefe" Varela og en José "El Gran Mariscal" Nasazzi havde pyntet i det forsvar. Eller i et hvilket som helst forsvar til det kommende VM.
Obdulio er den vildeste anfører gennem tiden - en spiller brasserne har stor respekt for...at lede sit hold til VM sejr på Maracana foran 200.000 tilskuere..respekt...
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He´s most remembered as the captain of the Uruguay team that won 1950 FIFA World Cup, in which he played a vital role. The decisive match was against the hosts Brazil. Uruguay needed to win, but Brazil could win the Cup with a draw. Then when the team were on the dressing room, Juan López, the coach of the Uruguayan team told his players that the best way they could get a chance against Brazil was if they adopted a defensive style, then he left the room and Varela told his teammates
´Juan is a good man, but if we do defend ourselves then we will suffer the same fate of Sweden and Spain´ (they lost by a large margin against Brazil), and then said ´the game is played on the pitch, when you come out to the pitch, don´t look to the crowd, those on the outside are of wood´.
[citation needed] The speech played a vital role on his teammates, who played without fear getting a 0-0 draw on the halftime. 5 minutes in the second half, Brazil scored, and Varela took scene, when he intentionally walked slowly to his goal, picked up the ball and then argue with the English referee George Reader about an innexistent offside, with the intention of delaying the restart of the game so the crowd cooled off. After that he said to his teammates ´Now it´s time to win´ and the Brazilians in the crowd were in a silent mood. Uruguay scored with a goal of Schiaffino and then, 9 minutes before the finish, with a very nervous Brazil team, Alcides Ghiggia scored the 2-1 for Uruguay, winning the world cup."
"A draw against Spain and a win over Sweden meant Uruguay had to win its last match to be champions. Its opponents, Brazil, had won both its first two games in the final pool and required only a tie in front of an estimated crowd of over 200,000 in the Maracana. Most thought it was a foregone conclusion. The early editions of O Mundo on the day of the final even carried a team photograph of the Brazil side under the headline "These are the world champions." Obdulio Varela, Uruguay´s captain, saw the newspaper on display at the newsstand in his hotel on the morning of the final, and was so enraged that he bought every copy they had, took them back to his room, laid them out on his bathroom floor and encouraged his teammates to urinate on them. That was garra."
Den mand var kongen, han var ikke med da de spillede mod puskas og Co. 54 grndet en skade , ellers hævdes det at de havde slået Ungarn ...one of the all time greats