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Galvão Bueno Earns Guinness Record and Narrates 100th Brazil World Cup Goal

The recognition crowns a career that spans four decades, backed by sponsor Betnacional, after a match episode that briefly delayed his milestone goal.

Overview

  • Guinness World Records presented Galvão Bueno with a plaque for narrating 148 live World Cup matches, a ceremony organized in Miami and reported by multiple outlets.
  • The broadcaster reached his 100th narrated Brazil goal during Brazil’s 3-0 win over Scotland when Vinícius Júnior scored, after an earlier Vini Jr. strike was disallowed and provoked Galvão’s on-air criticism.
  • Galvão is narrating the 2026 World Cup for SBT and N Sports in his first tournament since leaving TV Globo in 2024, and broadcasters and his team confirmed the match and goal counts.
  • Betnacional, where Galvão is an ambassador, compiled the dossier and promoted the Guinness submission, linking the commercial partner directly to the public recognition.
  • At 75, Galvão is recovering from recent spinal surgery and noted that some early career narrations from 1974 were excluded from the Guinness total because they were not broadcast live.