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1950-06-29

1950-06-29: (Joe Gaetjens Scores the Goal That Defeats England in the 1950 World Cup, a Haitian-Born Player Performing for the American Team in the Most Famo…

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1950-06-29: (Joe Gaetjens Scores the Goal That Defeats England in the 1950 World Cup, a Haitian-Born Player Performing for the American Team in the Most Famous Upset in Soccer History): On June 29, 1950, Joe Gaetjens, a Haitian-born soccer player, scored the only goal in a match between the United States and England in the 1950 World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, producing what remains the most famous upset in the history of the tournament. Gaetjens, who was born in Port-au-Prince and had moved to New York in 1947, played for the American team under a regulation that permitted non-citizens who had declared their intent to become citizens. The goal was a diving header that slipped past the English goalkeeper and sent shockwaves through the soccer world. Gaetjens later returned to Haiti, where he disappeared in 1964, almost certainly murdered by the Tonton Macoutes during the Duvalier dictatorship. The man who had scored the most famous goal in American soccer history died in the custody of a secret police force in the nation of his birth. His body was never recovered.