On 13 October 2006, the

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and Timor-Leste national futsal team faced each other in an international

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match that was part of the

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, hosted that year by

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. Brazil defeated Timor-Leste 76–0, setting a world record for largest win in an international futsal match. One of Brazil's players, Valdin, scored 20 goals, which is another record. It was Brazil's biggest margin of victory since they beat Uruguay 38–3 in the

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. Timor-Leste was coming off a 56–0 loss to

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, which was the previous world record.

Background

Brazil was the favorite to win the Lusophony Games, while this was one of Timor-Leste's first games. Brazil has always been one of the top futsal teams in the world.
9 October: In the first day of competition,

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defeated

2–0, but was overshadowed by Portugal's 56–0 blowout of Timor-Leste. The Portuguese player,

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, scored 11 goals himself while André Lima, his teammate, scored 10 goals. This was a little over one goal per minute. It was the world record for 4 days. Brazil did not play that day.
10 October: In Brazil's first game, they beat Angola 7–0. Timor-Leste lost to the host side, Macau, 13–4.
11 October: Brazil crushed Macau 27–0. Portugal narrowly defeated Angola on that day, 4–1.
12 October: 12 October was a rest day.
13 October: Besides the 76–0 game, Portugal blew out Macau, 22–0.

Line-ups

This is the lineup of players that were called up for the match. All Brazilian players scored at least one goal except for two, including subs. Brazil had an advantage with seven subs, against Timor-Leste's two.

The match

The match was played in Macau, in the

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, as did all the games, at 19:00

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. Brazil wanted to beat Timor-Leste by more goals than Portugal did because of

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. The final result was 76–0, meaning almost 2 goals per minute.

Post-match

14 October: Brazil ties Portugal 1–1. It is Brazil's first goal conceded in the whole tournament. Brazil won the gold medal by goal difference. Timor-Leste loses again, to Angola, 24–3. This is how the two countries wound up the tournament. Brazil won the gold medal,Google Translate
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Response

There was not a lot of media attention to the subject. The game was talked about mostly in

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, and Spain. The next Lusophony Games, the

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, Timor-Leste did not compete in Futsal. Brazilian striker, Valdin, said the following about the scoring:
Brazilian futsal supervisor, Reinaldo Simoes, said after the match,
Brazil then tied Portugal, 1–1.

References

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