The Caracas daily El Universal wrote that: ]] the night of 3 March 1971 will never be forgotten by the fans of Fluminense, who followed on radio and television the match against Deportivo Italia.

That fateful night, Deportivo Italia achieved the victory more enjoyable in the Venezuelan national football history, winning in the largest stadium in the world the Champion of Brazil as did −21 years before- the Uruguay national team....(Numa partida que passou na televisão e nas rádios e diante 26.000 espectadores,a Azzurra Venezuelana derrotou o invicto tricolor,campeão brasileiro da época e segundo os venezuelanos esta é umas das maiores glórias do futebol do país de todos os tempos,ao derrotar uma das maiores equipes brasileiras no maior estádio do mundo,assim como haviam feito os uruguaios 21 anos antes,claro que nas suas devidas proporções.Eduardo Cacela)The Deportivo Italia – under the direct supervision of Mino D'Ambrosio (who ruled the team with his brother Pompeo D'Ambrosio)– that night went to the match with Vito Fasano (who for his performance was recruited in Brazil, Vito is Italian) as goalkeeper.

The victory was received by the Italians of Venezuela with street car caravans in Caracas and it was celebrated by the "La Voce d'Italia" (the main newspaper of the local Italian community) with a special edition [4] The Brazilian newspaper “Jornal Dos Sport” published the next day an article complaining about this disaster of the powerful Fluminense, champion of Brasil, while pinpointing that the Fluminense vice-president died of a heart attack during the match.

The winning goal came in the 66th minute: Pito Useche passed the ball to Militello, who entered the box, dribbled a defender and goalkeeper Vitorio knocked him down.

In the second half when Fluminense made their dominance more intense, the visitors again and again distanced the danger from their penalty area and controlled the two most skilled players of the Brazilian team: Flavio and Cafuringa (Los Venezolanos, a quienes se le asignaban escasas posibilidades, practicaron un juego defensivo perfecto.