{"id":194234,"date":"2018-02-13T04:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T07:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/1954-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2023-02-11T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:39:34","slug":"1954-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"1954 World Cup: &#8220;Battle of Bern\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">\u00cdndice<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#Introduction_1954_World_Cup\" >Introduction: 1954 World Cup<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#1954_Cup_in_Switzerland\" >1954 Cup in Switzerland<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#Brazilian_National_Team_in_the_54th_World_Cup\" >Brazilian National Team in the 54th World Cup<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#The_%E2%80%9CBattle_of_Bern%E2%80%9D\" >The &#8220;Battle of Bern\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#The_%E2%80%9CBattle_of_Bern%E2%80%9D-2\" >The &#8220;Battle of Bern\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#54th_World_Cup_Final\" >54th World Cup Final<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#First_World_Cup_Broadcast_on_Television\" >First World Cup Broadcast on Television<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#1954_Cup_Records\" >1954 Cup Records<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#_World_Cup_Series\" >\u00a0World Cup Series:<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/#BIBLIOGRAPHIC_REFERENCES\" >BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction_1954_World_Cup\"><\/span>Introduction: 1954 World Cup<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">In the 1954 World Cup, many believed that the new colors of the Brazilian national team uniform would bring luck. But what it got was a battle in one of the most violent games in the history of the World Cup that television has recorded.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1954_Cup_in_Switzerland\"><\/span>1954 Cup in Switzerland<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">The World Cup was returning to Europe, which was already recovering from the great financial depression it had suffered. Switzerland, which was now the home of FIFA, was chosen to host the 1954 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">There was a great deal of emphasis on the Hungarian national team. The team was undefeated in games since 1950 and had received a large government investment. The whole team was well-integrated and came in as one of the great favorites.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brazilian_National_Team_in_the_54th_World_Cup\"><\/span>Brazilian National Team in the 54th World Cup<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/copa-1954.jpg\" alt=\"Hist\u00f3ria da Copa de 1954\" width=\"652\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The shock of losing the final of the 1950 World Cup in their own country made some people blame even the color of the jersey for the bad luck. But, superstition or not, the uniform of the Brazilian national team really changed for the &#8217;54 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The yellow jersey with green details finally appeared to represent the colors of the country, a combination that would forever mark the history of <span lang=\"pt-BR\">football<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The &#8220;canarinho team&#8221; &#8211; nickname received by radio broadcaster Geraldo Jos\u00e9 de Almeida &#8211; opened with a 5-nil thrashing of Mexico. In Brazil&#8217;s next game, against Yugoslavia, the final score of 1-1 caused confusion for the Brazilian team.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Thinking that a draw would not qualify the team for the quarterfinals, the Brazilian players were distraught at the end of the game. Some even left crying, imagining they were eliminated. The news of the qualification would only be received through the Press.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_%E2%80%9CBattle_of_Bern%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>The &#8220;Battle of Bern\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">In the quarterfinals, Brazil would face the mighty Hungary. But after 25 minutes of play, violence took over the match. Three players were sent off (two from Brazil), for aggressive plays, and 42 fouls were The shock of losing the final of the 1950 World Cup in their own country made some people blame even the color of the jersey for the bad luck. But, superstition or not, the uniform of the Brazilian national team really changed for the &#8217;54 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The yellow jersey with green details finally appeared to represent the colors of the country, a combination that would forever mark the history of <span lang=\"pt-BR\">football<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The &#8220;canarinho team&#8221; &#8211; nickname received by radio broadcaster Geraldo Jos\u00e9 de Almeida &#8211; opened with a 5-nil thrashing of Mexico. In Brazil&#8217;s next game, against Yugoslavia, the final score of 1-1 caused confusion for the Brazilian team.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Thinking that a draw would not qualify the team for the quarterfinals, the Brazilian players were distraught at the end of the game. Some even left crying, imagining they were eliminated. The news of the qualification would only be received through the Press.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_%E2%80%9CBattle_of_Bern%E2%80%9D-2\"><\/span>The &#8220;Battle of Bern\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">In the quarterfinals, Brazil would face the mighty Hungary. But after 25 minutes of play, violence took over the match. Three players were sent off (two from Brazil), for aggressive plays, and 42 fouls were called in the game!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Even after the end of the match (4-2) that eliminated Brazil from the 54th World Cup, <span lang=\"pt-BR\">football<\/span> shoes flew, bottles were broken, and punches were transferred among the players. A regrettable episode for the sport, which became known as &#8220;The Battle of Bern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"54th_World_Cup_Final\"><\/span>54th World Cup Final<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">For the final match of the Cup, the Hungarian team could count on the return of its star player <span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"http:\/\/terceirotempo.bol.uol.com.br\/que-fim-levou\/puskas-3907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s<\/a><\/span>, who had been injured in the group stage. On the other hand, the German team, which arrived shy to the championship, had studied the opponent and thought of new tactics on the field.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">More than 60,000 people came to Bern&#8217;s Wankdorf Stadium to watch the World Cup final between Hungary and Germany (West). In a rainy game, the German style of play prevailed over the strong Hungarian team.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Germany thus became champion of the 5th edition of the World Cup, 3-2. This feat was also made into a movie: <span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorocinema.com\/filmes\/filme-54391\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Miracle of Bern<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"First_World_Cup_Broadcast_on_Television\"><\/span>First World Cup Broadcast on Television<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">The &#8217;54 World Cup was the first to be televised, although only to certain European countries. It was also in this Cup that the Hungarian team introduced warm-ups before their matches, an uncommon practice at the time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This would explain how the team managed to get big advantages at the beginning of all the games it played in the Cup, despite the final defeat.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1954_Cup_Records\"><\/span>1954 Cup Records<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">The 1954 Cup had the highest goal average in the championship&#8217;s history to date: 5.38 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Another record was achieved with the most goals per match: 12 (Austria 7-5 Switzerland).<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_World_Cup_Series\"><\/span>\u00a0World Cup Series:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/curiosities-of-the-1950-world-cup\/\">16 Curiosities of the World Cup<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Episode 01:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/first-world-cup-1930\/\">World Cup of 30<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Episode 02:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1934-word-cup\/\">World Cup of 34<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Episode 03:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1938-word-cup\/\">World Cup of 38<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"BIBLIOGRAPHIC_REFERENCES\"><\/span>BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">DUARTE, Orlando. Enciclop\u00e9dia: Todas as Copas do Mundo.\u00a0<span lang=\"en-US\">S\u00e3o Paulo: Makron Books, 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"en-US\">FIFA. 1950 FIFA World Cup Brazil.\u00a0<\/span>Available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/%3C%20http\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/archive\/brazil1950\/index.html%20%3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt; http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/archive\/brazil1950\/index.html &gt;<\/a>. Accessed on:\u00a0 07\/02\/2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: 1954 World Cup In the 1954 World Cup, many believed that the new colors of the Brazilian national team uniform would bring luck. But what it got was a battle in one of the most violent games in the history of the World Cup that television has recorded. 1954 Cup in Switzerland The World&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/1954-world-cup\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1954 World Cup: &#8220;Battle of Bern\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[418,411,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-soccer","category-sports","category-word-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dicaseducacaofisica.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}