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Blatter: 'I'm very sad for Ghiggia.'


Blatter: 'I'm very sad for Ghiggia.'
17.07.2015

The President of FIFA Sepp Blatter expressing condolences on the death of the former football star Alcides Ghiggia, who died at the age of 88.
'I'm very sad for the loss of Alcides Ghiggia, he was a real hero. My respects to his family and the whole of Uruguayan football.', Blatter wrote in his Twitter.
Ghiggia went down in history as the author of the decisive goal for the celebrated the victory of Uruguay with 2:1 over Brazil in the final of the World Cup in 1950, the derby was played in front of 200,000 spectators at the 'Maracana' on July 16 in Rio de Janeiro. Exactly 65 years after this historic achievement of veteran's heart stopped beating.

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