Alcides Ghiggia

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Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia (born December 22, 1926) is an Uruguayan former footballer.

Playing right forward for the national team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, he scored the decisive goal in the final match against Brazil. Uruguay won the match with 2-1, and won the World Cup.

Ghiggia scored in every match of the World Cup - four goals in four games - but these turned out to be his only international goals as he represented Uruguay only 12 times between 1950 and 1952.

However, he played 5 games and scored one goal for the Italian national team from 1957-1959.

Ghiggia was the oldest living player to attend the opening cememory of World Cup 2006 of Germany in Munich on June 9, 2006.