Fifa World Cup history 1930

In first edition of World Cup : That between Uruguay and Argentina, was actually a rematch of the 1928 Olympics, he had seen Celeste prevail at the end of a double pulsating final. A first rendez vous had already occurred in 1929, when Argentina had organized and won the America's Cup, defeating precisely the Celeste, but of course the final showcase of the world was much more thick than the South American championship. As the two teams came to the finals? We have already spoken of the attention that the Argentines had reserved axis, contrary to their habits, to athletic training. The Uruguay had himself spent a month in complete seclusion, so that the goalkeeper Mazali, one of the Uruguayan soccer legends, had been ousted from the breeder Supicci, having been caught while coming into training camp with shoes in hand at the end of a nocturnal escapade. It was a painful decision, also considering the stature of Mazali, the first goalkeeper to realize that when danger was real was necessary to leave the posts to meet the enemy, but Supicci had considered breaking the strict regime of discipline to be imposed on him , would be dangerous and therefore had entrusted the goalkeeper shirt Ballestrero.

The rivalry between the two banks of the Rio de la Plata was the first big problem that the organizers had to face. From Buenos Aires reached over 30,000 requests, but only 20,000 requests were processed. At the entrance of the stadium summary searches conducted by the police, led to the discovery of a veritable arsenal: firecrackers, knives and revolvers were found among the fans who obviously thought that the battle had to follow a sport of a very different kind. In the absence of weapons, the most ardent supporters decided that she should use her hands and, before the game, incidents broke out in many areas of the Centenary, the police struggled to contain not a little excitement. The second problem was that the arbitration. The Belgian Langenus, decided to accept the nomination only two hours before the game and after the signing of an appropriate life insurance policy and insurance to be protected by a dense crowd of policemen. He escaped these two practices, everything could be said to be ready for that game, however, was preceded by an utter abandon the ranks of the heavenly: the center-Peregrino Anselmo, who was the great revelation of the tournament, he decided not to play, including without other valid explanation. More than one observer, saw fit to attach this package to present the other side of that Luisito Monti, whose nastiness racing, the limit of killeraggio sport was scared more than one opponent. And not only fear, given the way in which the "centromediano walking" had crippled the Chilean Subiabre during the preliminaries. The same mountains, however, in the days before the fight, had decided not to play the final, because of comments in the local press on his way to play and, above all, for he had received telephone threats. It was necessary to start from Argentina two leaders San Lorenzo de Almagro, his club team, to convince him to accept the designation of Olazar. The eve was also moved from the accident at Varallo, Argentine spearhead of the attack, which eventually was deployed by the technician, evidently trusting in the class of the player and his pride.

The game started well for the hosts, who managed at once to strike with surgical precision the Achilles heel of the rival defense. At 12 ', in fact, after a series of quick attacks and dangerous than the white and light blue, the wing Dorado took advantage of a passage to pierce Botasso Castro. The network advantage, however, instead of exalting the hosts, had the opposite effect and Argentina moved forward center of gravity of their game, while minimizing the dangers for its defense. At 20 ', Peucelle Ballestrero pierced with a blow at half-height, but the fury of Argentina made no move to run out, so that the 37' "El Filtrador" Stable, touched with a wry took the lead from close range her, imaginable blaze of more than 20,000 Argentines gathered at Centenary. The selection of Argentina continued to attack in search of network security, but once again proved to be a giant with feet of clay, on a long ball coming from behind, managed to do Scarone tower Cea, whose shot pierced Botasso . It was the twelfth of the shooting, another ten minutes and that's overtaking the work of Iriarte. Now the Argentina defense was clearly being confused, although the forwards tried again in rehabilitating a game that was beginning to hang on the opposing side. The draw seemed a done deal when Varallo steered the ball into the door unattended, but Andrade, with a prodigious leap, managed to fight off the danger in the throat to the Argentine fans shout of liberation.

The seal the triumph of Celeste, was placed by Castro, but left the final sensational aftermath. The Federation of Argentina, in fact, decided to break off all relations with the sister platense, while the press of the two countries began an extraordinary campaign, which deteriorated the relations not just between them. When the dust raised by the controversy subsided, it was possible to think about the fact issued by the game: the Uruguay had won, because tactically he understood that a team could not be based only on the great play of his solo, but it was a body compoennte in which each was to bring his brick to the construction of the victory.