Samuel Loyd, the director of Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, where Brazil’s footballing meltdown occurred on July 8 four years ago, announced that one of the goal nets used in Brazil’s humiliating 7-1 defeat in the 2014 World Cup against Germany will be cut up and sold for charity.
The net which saw the barrage of five first-half German goals and the solitary Brazilian effort, scored by Oscar, in the second half, will be cut into 8,150 pieces and sold online for a minimum of 71 euros a piece, echoing the infamous scoreline.
The other net will remain in Belo Horizonte. The posts will go on tour to a football museum in Germany.
“The idea is to transform this traumatic incident that everyone would prefer to forget into something positive,” said Lloyd.
