Brazil Independence Cup

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Brazil Independence Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	June 11–July 9, 1972
Teams	20
Venue(s)	Arruda, Recife Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre Fonte Nova, Salvador de Bahía Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte Mineirão, Belo Horizonte Morumbi, São Paulo Pacaembú, São Paulo Pedro Pedrossian, Porto Alegre Vivaldão, Manaus
Tournament statistics
Matches played	44

The Brazil Independence Cup was an international football tournament held in Brazil, from 11 June to 9 July 1972, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Brazilian Declaration of Independence. It was called the Minicopa by the Brazilians and the final was between Brazil and Portugal, in the Maracanã Stadium. Brazil won 1-0, with Jairzinho scoring in the 89th minute.

Pelé no longer played for Brazil. Brazil had Jairzinho, Tostão and Rivelino, who also played in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, in West Germany.

Despite Portugal's quality results and team, including Benfica players such as Eusébio, Jaime Graça, José Henrique, Humberto Coelho, Rui Jordão, and Toni, the team missed the World Cup 1974 and 1978 qualifying matches, so this tournament was their best result until the 1984 European Football Championship.

Host cities of the Taça Independência

Results

Preliminary round

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	4	3	1	0	13	1	+12	7
France	4	3	1	0	10	2	+8	7
Africa	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	3
Colombia	4	1	0	3	7	13	−6	2
CONCACAF	4	0	1	3	3	16	−13	1

11 June 1972

Argentina	2 – 0	Africa

Aracaju
Referee: José Faville (Brazil)

11 June 1972

France	5 – 0	CONCACAF

Fonte Nova, Salvador de Bahía

14 June 1972

France	2 – 0	Africa

Maceió
Referee: José Faville (Brazil)

14 June 1972

Colombia	4 – 3	CONCACAF

Aracaju

18 June 1972

Argentina	7 – 0	CONCACAF

Maceió
Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria), Edison Pérez (Peru), Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

18 June 1972

France	3 – 2	Colombia

Fonte Nova, Salvador de Bahía
Referee: Ángel Pazos (Uruguay), Kurt Tschenscher (East Germany), Armando Marques (Brazil)

22 June 1972

CONCACAF	0 – 0	Africa

Fonte Nova, Salvador de Bahía

22 June 1972

Argentina	4 – 1	Colombia

Fonte Nova, Salvador de Bahía

25 June 1972

Africa	3 – 0	Colombia

Fonte Nova, Salvador de Bahía
Referee: Ref: José Cañete (Paraguay), Ángel Pazos (Uruguay), José Faville Nieto (Brazil)

25 June 1972

Argentina	0 – 0	France

Fonte Nova, Salvador de Bahía
Referee: Armando Marques (Brazil), Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland), Paul Schiller (Austria)

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Portugal	4	4	0	0	12	2	+10	8
Chile	4	3	0	1	7	7	0	6
Republic of Ireland	4	2	0	2	7	7	0	4
Ecuador	4	0	1	3	4	9	−5	1
Iran	4	0	1	3	3	8	−5	1

11 June 1972

Portugal	3 – 0	Ecuador

Natal
Referee: Ángel Coerezza (Argentina)

11 June 1972

Republic of Ireland	2 – 1	Iran
Leech 57' Givens 74'		Ghelichkhani 10'

Estádio do Arruda, Recife
Attendance: 10,500
Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

14 June 1972

Portugal	3 – 0	Iran
Eusébio 13' Joaquim Dinis 31' Coelho 72'

Estádio do Arruda, Recife
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Guillermo Velasquez (Colombia)

14 June 1972

Chile	2 – 1	Ecuador

Natal

18 June 1972

Portugal	4 – 1	Chile

Arruda, Recife

18 June 1972

Republic of Ireland	3 – 2	Ecuador
Rogers 2' Martin 61' O'Connor 86'		Coronel 35' ? 62-85'

Natal
Referee: Michael Kitabdjian (France), Ángel Coerezza (Argentina), Romualdo Arpi Filho (Brazil)

21 June 1972

Ecuador	1 – 1	Iran
Lasso 15'		Ghelichkhani 36'

Estádio do Arruda, Recife
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Sebastião Rufino (Brazil)

21 June 1972

Chile	2 – 1	Republic of Ireland
Caszely 16' Fouilloux 25'		Rogers 79'

Arruda, Recife
Referee: Romualdo Arpi Filho (Brazil), Michel Kitabdjian (France), Guillermo Velásquez (Colombia)

25 June 1972

Chile	2 – 1	Iran
Caszely 50', 79'		Halvaei 85'

Estádio do Arruda, Recife
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

25 June 1972

Portugal	2 – 1	Republic of Ireland
Peres 35' Nené 37'		Leech 38'

Arruda, Recife
Referee: Ángel Coerezza (Argentina), Aurelio Agnonese (Italy), Guillermo Velásquez (Colombia)

Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Yugoslavia	4	3	1	0	15	3	+12	7
Paraguay	4	3	0	1	12	4	+8	6
Peru	4	2	0	2	5	3	+2	4
Bolivia	4	0	2	2	4	12	−8	2
Venezuela	4	0	1	3	3	17	−14	1

11 June 1972

Peru	3 – 0	Bolivia

Curitiba
Referee: Edwin Keith Walker (England)

11 June 1972

Paraguay	4 – 1	Venezuela

Campo Grande

14 June 1972

Yugoslavia	10 – 0	Venezuela

Curitiba

14 June 1972

Paraguay	1 – 0	Peru

Campo Grande
Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel), Georges Lamptey (Ghana), Joaquím GonValves (Brazil)

18 June 1972

Yugoslavia	1 – 1	Bolivia

Campo Grande
Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel), Joaquím GonValves (Brazil), George Lamptey (Ghana)

18 June 1972

Peru	1 – 0	Venezuela

Vivaldo Lima, Manaus

21 June 1972

Venezuela	2 – 2	Bolivia

Vivaldo Lima, Manaus
Referee: Hwa Po Oei (Malaysia), George Lamptey (Ghana), Joaquím GonValves (Brazil)

22 June 1972

Yugoslavia	2 – 1	Paraguay

Vivaldo Lima, Manaus
Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel), Archundia González (Mexico), Arnaldo César Coelho (Brazil)

25 June 1972

Paraguay	6 – 1	Bolivia

Vivaldo Lima, Manaus
Referee: Arnaldo César Coelho (Brazil), Hwa Pohm Oei (Malaysia), Joaquím GonValves (Brazil)

25 June 1972

Yugoslavia	2 – 1	Peru

Vivaldo Lima, Manaus
Referee: Archundia González (Mexico), Abraham Klein (Israel), Georges Lamptey (Ghana)

Final round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4	5
Yugoslavia	3	1	1	1	4	6	−2	3
Scotland	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
Czechoslovakia	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2

28 June 1972

Brazil	0 – 0	Czechoslovakia

Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

29 June 1972

Scotland	2 – 2	Yugoslavia

Belo Horizonte

2 July 1972

Brazil	3 – 0	Yugoslavia

São Paulo
Referee: Ove Dahlberg (Sweden), Aurelio Agnonese (Italy), Paul Schiller (Austria)

2 July 1972

Scotland	0 – 0	Czechoslovakia

Beira Riq, Porto Alegre
Referee: Marques (Brazil), Rafael Hormazábal (Chile), Ángel Pazos (Uruguay)

5 July 1972

Brazil	1 – 0	Scotland

Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel)

6 July 1972

Yugoslavia	2 – 1	Czechoslovakia

São Paulo
Referee: Armando Marques (Brazil), Ángel Pazos (Uruguay), Edison Pérez (Peru)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Portugal	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5
Argentina	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	4
Soviet Union	3	1	0	2	1	2	−1	2
Uruguay	3	0	1	2	1	3	−2	1

29 June 1972

Soviet Union	1 – 0	Uruguay

São Paulo
Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel), Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland), George Lamptey (Ghana)

29 June 1972

Portugal	3 – 1	Argentina

Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Referee: Edwin Walker (England)

2 July 1972

Uruguay	1 – 1	Portugal

Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland), Edwin Walker (England), Edison Pérez (Peru)

2 July 1972

Argentina	1 – 0	Soviet Union

Belo Horizonte
Referee: Archundia González (Mexico), Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany), Kwa Poh Oei (Malaysia)

6 July 1972

Portugal	1 – 0	Soviet Union

Belo Horizonte
Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany), José Cañete Romei (Paraguay), Rafael Hormazábal (Chile)

6 July 1972

Argentina	1 – 0	Uruguay

Beira Riq, Porto Alegre
Referee: Edwin Keith Walker (England), Ove Dahlberg (Sweden), Paul Schiller (Austria)

Third place

9 July 1972

Yugoslavia	4 – 2	Argentina
Dušan Bajević 26', 82' Josip Katalinski 36' Dragan Džajić 64'		Miguel Ángel Brindisi 61' (pen.), 87' (pen.)

Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 120,000
Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria), José Faville Nieto (Brazil), Edison Pérez (Peru)


Yugoslavia
	Enver Marić (Velež Mostar)
	Miroslav Boškovic (Hajduk)
	Dragoslav Stepanović (OFK Beograd)
	Miroslav Pavlović (Crvena Zvezda)
	Josip Katalinski (Željeznicar) 68'
	Blagoje Paunović (Partizan)	46'
	Ilija Petković (OFK Beograd)	46'
	Branko Oblak (Olimpija Ljubljana)
	Dušan Bajević (Velež Mostar)
	Jovan Acimovic (Crvena Zvezda)
	Dragan Džajić (Crvena Zvezda)
Substitutions:
	Jusuf Hatunić (Sloboda)	46'
	Jure Jerković (Hajduk))	46'
Manager:
Vujadin Boškov


Argentina:
	Miguel Ángel Santoro (Independiente)
	Jorge Dominichi (River Plate)
	Osvaldo Piazza (Lanús)
	Ángel Bargas (Chacarita Juniors)
	Ramón Heredia (San Lorenzo)	71'
	Miguel Ángel Raimondo (Independiente)	46'
	Alejandro Semenewicz (Independiente)
	José Pastoriza (Independiente) 68'
	Ernesto Mastrángelo (River Plate)
	Roque Avallay (CA Huracán)
	Oscar Más (River Plate))
Substitutions:
	Miguel Ángel Brindisi (Huracán)	46'
	Rubén Díaz (Racing Club)	71'
Manager:
Juan José Pizzuti

Final

9 July 1972

Brazil	1 – 0	Portugal
Jairzinho 89'

Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 99,138
Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel), Edwin Walker (England), Guillermo Velásquez (Colombia)


Brazil
		Emerson Leão (Palmeiras)
		Zé Maria (Corinthians)
		Brito (Botafogo)
		Vantuir (Atlético Mineiro)
		Marco Antônio (Fluminense)
		Clodoaldo (Santos)
		Gérson (Fluminense)
		Jairzinho (Botafogo)
		Tostão (Vasco)
		Leivinha (Palmeiras)
		Rivellino (Corinthians)
Substitutions:
		Rodrigues Neto (Flamengo)
		Dario "Dadá Maravilha" (Atlético Mineiro)
Manager:
Mário Zagallo


Portugal:
	José Henrique (Benfica)
	Artur Correia (Benfica)
	Humberto Coelho (Benfica)
	Messias Timula (Benfica)
	Adolfo Calisto (Benfica)
	António "Toni" Oliveira (Benfica)
	Jaime Graça (Benfica)
	Fernando Peres (Sporting CP)
	Rui Jordão (Benfica)	77'
	Eusébio (Benfica)
	Joaquim Dinis (Sporting CP)
Substitutions:
	Artur Jorge (Benfica)	77'
Manager:
José Augusto

References

Macario Reyes: Brazil Independence Cup 1972, Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, 27 June 2007.
Eliézer Sebastián Pérez Pérez: Brazil Independence Cup 1972 - Additional Details, RSSSF, 6 July 2007.

External links

Sala de troféus Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, 27 May 2011. (Information about the Taça Independência)
Tournament: Taça Independência (Mini-Copa), EU-Football.info (details about matches with European participation)

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