Did you know that Brazil doesn’t always wear yellow?

One of the great hallmarks of national teams is the colors of their shirts. Spain and Chile are ‘la roja’, Argentina, ‘la albiceleste’, Uruguay, ‘la celeste’ and Brazil, the ‘verdeamarelha’. However, the ‘verdeamarelha’ It’s not always yellow and green. Until 1950 his clothes were completely white. The World Cup played in Brazil changed the history of his team. The ‘maracanazo’ is remembered as one of the worst moments in the history of the ‘canarinha’. Against all odds, Uruguay won 2-1 at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro against Brazil and were proclaimed world champions..

The wound of that defeat has not yet fully healed and that match shirt (white) is branded damn, one of the reasons for defeat and unpatriotic. We had to find another kit with different colors. The newspaper ‘Correio da Manhá’which had the support of Brazilian federation organized a contest to win a t-shirt. The slogan is clear: ”The shirt must have all the colors of the flag (yellow, green, blue and white)”.

The winner of the contest is Aldyr Garcia Schelee, an 18-year-old boy who became a Brazilian journalist, writer, translator and teacher. But above all it is Remembered to bring yellow on the shirt, with a green collar, blue shorts and white socks, thus complying with the requirement that the kit ‘have the colors of the flag’.

The young man was born in Jaguarnear the border of Uruguay and he is a Uruguayan fan. In fact, he celebrated the victory in 1950. One of the twists that life gives.

With that uniform the friends of 1954 and the World Cup in Switzerland in the same year. The result is not positive, but there is no return, the colors will remain over time. In 1958 they won the long-awaited World Cup, in 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002 they repeated.

To this day, no one in Brazil can imagine a color other than the traditional yellow shirt.