Socrates
The Sarrià Stadium Tragedy (Art Print)

Sometimes the team everyone remembers didn't win.

Barcelona. 5 July 1982.

Brazil against Italy.

Zico. Falcão. Éder. Cerezo.

And their captain, Sócrates.

Brazil arrived at the Sarrià Stadium playing football with a freedom and imagination that had made them the team of the tournament.

They needed only a draw.

Italy won 3–2.

THE GOALSOUL INTERPRETATION

Brazil 1982 became one of football's great paradoxes.

They lost.

Yet more than four decades later, people still talk about how beautifully they played.

The defeat at Sarrià came to represent something bigger than one World Cup result — expression against organisation, beauty against pragmatism, the liberated individual against the system.

Italy progressed and became world champions.

Brazil went home.

But the football survived.

Sócrates later reflected:

“It was irreverent, joyful, creative, free-flowing.”

Perhaps that's why Brazil 1982 still matters.

They lost the match.
They didn't lose the argument.

THE PRINT

An original Goalsoul Sócrates Brazil 1982 football art print inspired by the Sarrià Stadium tragedy, the 1982 World Cup and one of the greatest teams never to become world champions.

Produced as a premium Giclée art print for exceptional colour, detail and longevity.

30 × 40 cm · 40 × 50 cm · 60 × 80 cm

Sócrates — The Sarrià Stadium Tragedy.

Goalsoul — Keeping the Game Beautiful.

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