The celebrated National Football Team of Brazil has not been able to shake off its prolonged slump that started with the humiliating 1-7 loss against Germany during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which the South American spiritual home of football hosted.

At the impressive Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts, Brazil faced off against Peru, a national team that until Sunday night had lost to the Selecao on every single match over three long decades. Brazil only needed to draw the match in order to advance to the next stage of the Copa America Centenario, but a victory was almost certain according to betting odds observed by sportsbooks in Costa Rica.

As the five-time world champions, Brazil was the clear favorite coming off a 7-1 drubbing of Haiti. According to IDSca.com, the leading Pay-Per-Head services provider in Costa Rica, local sportsbooks saw wagers stacked in favor of Brazil 4/9. Odds of a draw stood at 7/2, and the underdog bettors who took Peru at 15/2 enjoyed a nice payday thanks to one of the most controversial goals ever scored in the history of international football.

The memory of the two previous legendary handball goals by Argentina’s Diego Maradona and France’s Thierry Henry were erased by Raul Ruidiaz, a scrappy substitute player from Peru who clearly handed the ball off a furious cross that would have hit him in the abdomen if he had not quickly reacted with right hand.

What makes Peru’s handball goal so amazing is that the referees held a conference and even consulted an official, who was not on the pitch at the time, via their headsets. Since FIFA rules do not allow video replays, the world got to see the handball goal on their TV sets but the referee let the 1-0 score stand, a decision that took him five minutes to make.

Brazil did not have enough time to even the score, thus allowing Peru to make history and advance to face Colombia, who comes off a 2-3 loss to Costa Rica, in the next stage.

Meanwhile, dismayed Brazilian football fans are furiously demanding the exit of coach Dunga, who earns about $250K per month and has been unable to rebuild the legacy that the Selecao is obligated to carry. Fans of Brazil do not care too much about Peru’s controversial goal, which they call “the hand of the devil;” they are mostly concerned about the inability of their national team to score goals.