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World Cup X-Files | The Referee with the Hat Who Brazil 1950 Turned Into a Legend Without a Single Picture
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CSCM/Av The story sounds so good it seems made up: an English referee, during the 1950 World Cup, officiating matches wearing a Panama hat to avoid dying under the Recife sun. The protagonist is George Reader, a veteran, serious referee, the kind who seemed to have stepped out of a black and white film. And yes, the anecdote is true. What doesn't exist, at least in any public archive, is the photograph to prove it. Reader arrived in Brazil at 53…
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