On 13 October 2006, the

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and

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faced each other in an international futsal match that was part of the

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, hosted that year by Macau. Brazil defeated Timor-Leste 76–0, setting a world record for largest win in an international futsal match. One of Brazil's players,

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

The match

The match was played in the Macau East Asian Games Dome, as did all the games, at 19:00 UTC+8. 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

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Response

The game was talked about mostly in Brazil, Portugal and surprisingly Spain. Timor-Leste did not compete in futsal at the next Lusophony Games in

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, hosted in Portugal. Striker

said the following about the scoring:
Reinaldo Simões, a member of the Brazilian delegation, said after the match,
Brazil then drew with Portugal 1–1.

References

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