Summary
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.
| Taça Independência | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Brazil |
| Dates | 11 June – 9 July |
| Teams | 20 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 15 (in 12 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Brazil |
| Runners-up |  Portugal |
| Third place |  Yugoslavia |
| Fourth place |  Argentina |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 44 |
| Goals scored | 136 (3.09 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Dušan Bajević (13 goals) |
Brazil no longer had Pelé but still had Tostão, Jairzinho and Rivellino, the later two 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.
Format edit
Twenty teams competed; 18 national teams as well as two representative sides from Africa and CONCACAF (North and Central America and the Caribbean).
First round edit
15 teams competed in the first round, while 5 teams (Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Scotland, Soviet Union, Uruguay) received byes to the final stage.
The teams are drawn into three groups of 5 teams. Each team plays each other team in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The three first-placed teams advance to the final stage.
Final stage edit
The 8 teams are drawn into two groups of 4 teams. Each team plays each other team in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.
The two group runners-up play each other in the third-place playoff.
The two group winners play each other in the final.
Venues edit
The tournament was played in 12 cities: Aracaju, Belo Horizonte, Campo Grande, Curitiba, Maceió, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo.
| Aracaju | Belo Horizonte | Campo Grande | |
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| Batistão | Mineirão | Estádio Independência | Morenão |
| Capacity: 45,000 | Capacity: 110,000 | Capacity: 23,000 | Capacity: 45,000 |
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| Curitiba | Maceió | Manaus | Natal |
| Estádio Couto Pereira | Estádio Rei Pelé | Vivaldão | Machadão |
| Capacity: 37,182 | Capacity: 20,551 | Capacity: 31,000 | Capacity: 42,000 |
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| Porto Alegre | Recife | Rio de Janeiro | Salvador |
| Estádio Beira-Rio | Estádio do Arruda | Maracanã | Estádio Fonte Nova |
| Capacity: 106,000 | Capacity: 60,000 | Capacity: 200,000 | Capacity: 80,000 |
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| São Paulo | |||
| Estádio do Pacaembu | Estádio do Morumbi | ||
| Capacity: 40,000 | Capacity: 120,000 | ||
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Squads edit
Group stage edit
Group A edit
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina (A)
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4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | 7 |
 France
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4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 7 |
| Africa | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 |
 Colombia
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 2 |
| CONCACAF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 16 | −13 | 1 |
(A) Advance to a further round
| Argentina | 2–0 | Africa |
|---|---|---|
Fischer  40'Mastrángelo 42' |
Report |
Group B edit
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal (A)
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 8 |
 Chile
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 |
 Republic of Ireland
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
 Ecuador
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4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 |
 Iran
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4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 1 |
(A) Advance to a further round
| Republic of Ireland | 2–1 | Iran |
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| Leech 57' Givens 74' |
Report | Ghelichkhani 10' |
| Portugal | 4–1 | Chile |
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| Coelho 14' Dinis 54', 66'Eusébio 71' |
Report | Caszely 56' |
| Republic of Ireland | 3–2 | Ecuador |
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| Rogers 2' Martin 61'O'Connor 86' |
Report | Coronel 36' Lasso 78' |
| Ecuador | 1–1 | Iran |
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| Lasso 15' |
Report | Ghelichkhani 36' |
| Chile | 2–1 | Republic of Ireland |
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| Caszely 16' Fouilloux 25' |
Report | Rogers 79' |
| Portugal | 2–1 | Republic of Ireland |
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| Peres 35' Nené 37' |
Report | Leech 38' |
Group C edit
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yugoslavia (A)
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4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 7 |
 Paraguay
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 6 |
 Peru
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 4 |
 Bolivia
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4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 2 |
 Venezuela
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4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 17 | −14 | 1 |
(A) Advance to a further round
| Peru | 3–0 | Bolivia |
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| Gallardo 7' (pen.) Castañeda 16'Sotil 31' |
Report |
| Paraguay | 4–1 | Venezuela |
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| L. Jiménez 2' Escobar 11'Maldonado 13', 37' |
Report | Olivares 26' |
| Yugoslavia | 10–0 | Venezuela |
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| Bajević 5', 7', 48', 68', 74' Džajić 20'Aćimović 37'Popivoda 44'Stepanović 51'Katalinski 54' |
Report |
| Paraguay | 1–0 | Peru |
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| Godoy 89' |
Report |
| Yugoslavia | 1–1 | Bolivia |
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| Katalinski 32' |
Report | Pariente 78' |
| Peru | 1–0 | Venezuela |
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| O. Ramírez 65' |
Report |
| Yugoslavia | 2–1 | Paraguay |
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| Bajević 50', 86' |
Report | Escobar 17' |
| Paraguay | 6–1 | Bolivia |
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| Maldonado 7', 67' Arrúa 57', 59', 67'dos Santos 86' |
Report | Molinas 63' (o.g.) |
| Yugoslavia | 2–1 | Peru |
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| Bajević 4', 37' |
Report | O. Ramírez 11' |
Final stage edit
Group A edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Brazil (A)
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 5 |
| 2 | Yugoslavia (A)
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
| 3 |  Scotland
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 |
| 4 |  Czechoslovakia
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 |
(A) Advance to a further round
| Brazil | 0–0 | Czechoslovakia |
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| Report |
| Brazil | 3–0 | Yugoslavia |
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| Leivinha 22', 25' Jairzinho 65' |
Report |
| Scotland | 0–0 | Czechoslovakia |
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| Yugoslavia | 2–1 | Czechoslovakia |
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| Bajević 19' Džajić 77' |
Report | Hrušecký 37' |
Group B edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Portugal (A)
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 |
| 2 | Argentina (A)
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 |  Soviet Union
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 |
| 4 |  Uruguay
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 1 |
(A) Advance to a further round
| Soviet Union | 1–0 | Uruguay |
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| Onishchenko 59' |
Report |
| Portugal | 3–1 | Argentina |
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| Calisto 36' Eusébio 45'Dinis 47' |
Report | Brindisi 29' |
| Argentina | 1–0 | Soviet Union |
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| Pastoriza 75' |
Report |
| Portugal | 1–0 | Soviet Union |
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| Jordão 46' |
Report |
Third place match edit
| Yugoslavia | 4–2 | Argentina |
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| Bajević 26', 83' Katalinski 37'Džajić 64' |
Report | Brindisi 58' (pen.), 87' (pen.) |
Final edit
Statistics edit
Goalscorers edit
There were 57 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3.56 goals per match.
13 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
Leivinha
Jean-Pierre Tokoto
Carlos Lugo- Jaime Morón
- Hernando Pineros
Charly Loubet
Mick Leech- Eamonn Rogers
Parviz Ghelichkhani
Oswaldo Ramírez
Humberto Coelho- Nené
Adalberto Escobar
Lou Macari
Edwin Reiner
1 goal
Ernesto Mastrángelo- José Omar Pastoriza
- Ángel Vargas
Ramiro Blacutt- Mario Pariente
- Jaime Rimazza
Laurent Pokou
Julio Crisosto- Alberto Fouilloux
- Orlando Mesa
Anton Hrušecký
Miguel Coronel- Georges Bereta
- Bernard Blanchet
- Louis Floch
- Marc Molitor
Jean-Claude Désir- Don Givens
- Mick Martin
- Turlough O'Connor
- Majid Halvaei
- Hernán Castañeda
- Alberto Gallardo
- Hugo Sotil
- Adolfo Calisto
- Jaime Graça
- Rui Jordão
- Fernando Peres
- Emigdio dos Santos
- Tiberio Godoy
- Lorenzo Jiménez
Vladimir Onishchenko
Ricardo Pavoni
Ramón Iriarte- Luis Mendoza
- Asdrúbal Olivares
Jovan Acimovic- Danilo Popivoda
- Dragoslav Stepanovic
3 own goals
Fernando Bulnes (against France)- Pedro Molinas (against Bolivia)
- Martin Buchan (against Yugoslavia)
Hat-tricks edit
| # | Player | G | Time of goals | For | Result | Against | Phase | Date | FIFA report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hervé Revelli | 3 | 15', 21', 69' | France
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5-0 | CONCACAF | Group stage | 11 June 1972 | Report |
| 2. | Dušan Bajević | 5 | 5', 7', 48', 68', 74' | Yugoslavia
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10-0 | Venezuela
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14 June 1972 | Report | |
| 3. | Rodolfo Fischer | 4 | 26', 68', 81', 86' |  Argentina
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7-0 | CONCACAF | 18 June 1972 | Report | |
| 4. | Carlos Bianchi | 3 | 17', 49', 62' | Argentina
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4-1 | Colombia
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22 June 1972 | Report | |
| 5. | Saturnino Arrúa | 3 | 57', 59', 67' | Paraguay
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6-1 | Bolivia
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25 June 1972 | Report |
References edit
- 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 edit
- 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)