Alcides Ghiggia

✶November 22, 1926

†July 16, 2015

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About their life

Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia Pereyra was a Uruguayan and Italian footballer who played as a right winger. He achieved lasting fame for his decisive role in the final match of the 1950 World Cup, and at the time of his death exactly 65 years later, he was also the last surviving player of Uruguay's 1950 World Cup squad.

Uruguayan footballer (1926-2015)

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