Joedir Belmont

The 85-year-old Brazilian cut a deal with Fifa’s museum to trade his unused ticket for the 1950 World Cup final – which he had to miss due to his mother’s illness – for three tickets to see this summer’s final with his children. Then he lost them on the way home. “I kept one ticket for 64 years, then lost these after six hours.” His son José Augusto said: “He’s distraught”. Fifa says they’ll be replaced.

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