The Taça Oswaldo Cruz (English: ''Oswaldo Cruz Cup''), was a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

tournament played between the national teams of

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

and

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

, and contested from 1950 to 1976, albeit irregularly.Copa Oswaldo Cruz
by José L. Pierrend on the RSSSF It was organised by the

Brazilian Sports Confederation The Brazilian Sports Confederation (Portuguese: ''Confederação Brasileira de Desportos''), also known by the acronym CBD, was the main sports confederation of Brazil, competent in the matter of tennis, athletics, swimming, water polo, handball, ...

and the Paraguayan Football Association with the purpose of promoting sporting exchange between the two countries. The trophy was named after Oswaldo Cruz, a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist and epidemiologist,Oswaldo Cruz - Historia
on Invivo and founder of the

Oswaldo Cruz Institute The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Portuguese ''Fundação Oswaldo Cruz'', also known as FIOCRUZ) is a scientific institution for research and development in biological sciences located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; it is considered one of the world's ma ...

.The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation: 100 years
by Paulo Buss (archived, 21 Aug 2001) The competition was played in a

two-legged In sports (particularly association football), a two-legged tie is a contest between two teams which comprises two matches or "legs", with each team as the home team in one leg. The winning team is usually determined by aggregate score, the sum o ...

format, with all the editions being won by Brazil. From a total of 16 matches in 8 editions contested, Brazil won 11, with Paraguay only winning once.

List of Champions

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taca Oswaldo Cruz Brazil national football team matches Paraguay national football team matches International association football competitions hosted by Brazil International association football competitions hosted by Paraguay Defunct international association football competitions in South America

List of Champions

Titles

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