Rare notebook with drawings of moves and players detailing the 1950 World Cup The 1950 World Cup, held in Brazil, was traumatic for Brazilians. Many prefer to forget the “Maracanazo”, when the Seleção was beaten 2-1 by Uruguay and lost the chance to celebrate what would have been their first world title at home, on the biggest stage in national football. The trauma was so great that it made Brazil abandon the white uniform used in the match. This is how Aldyr Schlee, from Rio Grande do Sul, created an eternal bond with the Brazilian team, by participating in a competition to choose the team's new uniform. 📲 Access the g1 RS channel on WhatsApp The idea was to abandon the white shirt with blue details that had been used as the home uniform until then, and which was the outfit worn on that fateful July 16, 1950, when Brazil was defeated by Celeste Uruguaia. The team needed to revamp itself and white gave way to new colors. Thus, Schlee created the emblematic “hopscotch” in 1953, a uniform that would be presented to the public a year later and that would be used to this day. Composed of a yellow shirt with green details, blue shorts with white details and white socks with green and yellow details, it would become a national symbol. The gaucho passed away in 2018, but was immortalized in these colors. Schlee's talent, however, was not limited to the shirt that made the team become the Canarinho Team: at just 15 years old, the teenager from Jaguarão, in the south of Rio Grande do Sul, created an illustrated notebook in which he records the moves of each match, details the lineups of each team and draws, one by one, the Brazilian players. See below. He draws, for example, how Ademir Menezes, twice, Baltazar and Jair Rosa Pinto scored the goals in Brazil 4 x 0 Mexico in the opening of the world cup. And he describes the disappointment of the Maracanazo. "Contrary to all predictions, Brazil, playing a match on equal terms with its opponent, lost the World Cup. With a pain in our hearts, we wrote this comment about the most sensational game of the championship, which took away the cup that should have been ours. It's a shame that the champions used manly means to win, thus demonstrating that they would not beat us through technique alone", he described. Check out the rare 1950 World Cup notebook illustrated by Aldyr Schlee Finally, he ended up not designing the game's moves, as he did with other games — perhaps because of the final result. "He records every game, every goal, except for the final, which he didn't draw. I think he was disappointed with the Brazilian defeat to Uruguay. He was a kid, right? He was 15 years old. First World Cup he watched. In fact, I heard it on the radio. He never told me, but I think that's why", says his son, Aldyr Schlee, who inherited his father's name and customs. "This notebook has 28 pages. All done by hand. Evidently, drawn and painted with ink from the time, with a brush and pen", he describes. In the 2-2 draw against Sweden, in the group stage, he described that "our team failed regrettably". At the time, the team went to the field with only players from São Paulo at Pacaembu, in São Paulo. In the 6-1 defeat against Spain, Aldyr describes how it was a "superb victory for the Brazilian scratch, who dominated the entire match, showing absolute superiority". Son follows his father's tradition The 1950 World Cup notebook is the most detailed, but it is not the only one. Aldyr Schlee documented the World Cups and passed the custom on to his children, especially the one who bears his name. "I watch all the World Cup matches. I'm already preparing for that. When he was alive, we sat in front of the television and took notes. I have everything saved", says Aldyr. "I'm very similar to him in that aspect. I'm a guy who learned to love football from him. And table football too, which was another of his passions", he adds. Rare notebook details the 1950 World Cup from the perspective of the gaucho who created the Seleção's shirt Aldyr Schlee/Personal archive VIDEOS: Everything about RS