Campeonato Sudamericano 1935

Campeonato Sudamericano 1935
Soccer South American Championship 1935
Number of nations	4th
South American champions	Uruguay (7th title)
venue	Peru
Opening game	January 6, 1935
Tournament end	January 27, 1935
Games	6th
Gates	18  (⌀: 3 per game)
spectator	126,000  (⌀: 21,000 per game)
Top scorer	Herminio Masantonio (4 goals)

Lima

Venue in 1935 in Peru

The Campeonato Sudamericano of 1935 was the 13th game of the South American continental football championship and took place for the second time in Peru from January 6th to 27th after a five-year break. After the long break, four South American teams met again at this championship. The teams from Brazil , Ecuador , Paraguay and Bolivia stayed away from the tournament.

Even after the long break, nothing changed in terms of the mode of execution, the championship was again played in the league system (everyone against everyone). If there was a tie in first place, a playoff was planned. However, for the first time in a Copa, two field players and the goalkeeper could be substituted during the game. All games were played in the Estadio Guadelupe in Lima (capacity approx. 30 - 35,000 spectators).

Uruguay became South American champions for the seventh time in 1935.

background

The long break since the last tournament was due to a variety of reasons. In addition to sporting, internal, political and economic reasons played an important role. For example, no Copa America was held in 1930 due to the first World Cup in Uruguay in the same year . In addition , there was no longer any need to hold a qualifying tournament for the 1932 Summer Olympics , as football was not on the program in Los Angeles .

In the years after 1930, the spread of professional football in almost every country in South America led to considerable national association problems. While the best players from the respective countries increasingly switched to professional associations, the national amateur associations remained for a long time the organizations recognized by FIFA and CONMEBOL ; and only their national teams were allowed to participate in the international tournament. This led, for example, to the fact that Argentina was the reigning runner -up in the 1934 World Cup with only a "second class" amateur representation and promptly failed in the first round. And the fact that world champions Uruguay stayed away from this World Cup was also due to this problem; it wasn't just pouting, as is often said.

In South America, the fear of failing with a second-rate amateur representation led to a significantly reduced interest in a Copa. But economic reasons also played a major role. The global economic crisis had also hit South America hard. All institutions and associations suffered from a financial shortage. In those years, no South American association was really ready to raise the costs of hosting a major football tournament. No country really wanted to play host in those years. After all, the political situation in South America was anything but stable. From 1932 to 1935, Bolivia and Paraguay fought each other in the Chaco War on the battlefield and created a politically extremely tense situation in all of South America. These political framework conditions did not exactly facilitate the holding of a continental football championship. It was not until the 1936 Olympic football tournament had to host a South American qualifying tournament that the 13th Copa América took place. But even after the tournament, economic reasons initially forced tournament winners Uruguay and then the second Argentina to refrain from participating in the Olympics. In the end, Peru took part in the Olympics as a representative of South America.

The Uruguayan press, on the other hand, attributes the long break to the negative side effects of the final of the 1930 World Cup . The Argentines felt that they were badly treated there and said that some of their players had been threatened. This was followed by the temporary break in relations with the Uruguayan Football Association UP . Political tensions between the two countries also arose when, following violent attacks on the Uruguayan embassy in Buenos Aires, there was a temporary break in relations at the political, intergovernmental level. No further South American championship ( Campeonato Sudamericano ) took place until 1935 , since neither country wanted to take part in such a tournament in which the neighbor was also present. Without the two strongest teams on the continent at the time, there was consensus that holding a championship made no sense.

With the venue Lima , its founding, which had taken place 400 years earlier on January 18, 1535, was also to be celebrated.

Game results

January 6, 1935 Argentina - Chile 4: 1 (1: 1) January 13, 1935 Peru - Uruguay 0: 1 (0: 0) January 18, 1935 Uruguay - Chile 2: 1 (1: 0) January 20, 1935 Peru - Argentina 1: 4 (1: 1) January 26, 1935 Peru - Chile 1: 0 (1: 0) January 27, 1935 Uruguay - Argentina 3: 0 (3: 0)

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points  1.  Uruguay  3  3  0  0 006: 100  +5 06-00  2.  Argentina  3  2  0  1 008: 500  +3 04: 20  3.  Peru  3  1  0  2 002: 500  −3 02: 40  4th  Chile  3  0  0  3 002: 700  −5 00: 60

Best goal scorers

rank	player	Gates
1	Herminio Masantonio	4th
2	Aníbal Ciocca	3
3	Diego García	2
	Hector Castro	2
	Adolfo Zumelzú	2

Team roster

Uruguay
Enrique Ballestrero (goalkeeper, Rampla Juniors FC ), Héctor Macchiavello (goalkeeper, Racing Club de Montevideo ), Miguel Andreolo ( Nacional Montevideo ), Peregrino Anselmo ( CA Peñarol ), Braulio Castro (CA Peñarol), Héctor Castro (Nacional Montevideo), Aníbal Ciocca (Nacional Montevideo), Luis María Denis ( Montevideo Wanderers FC ), Enrique Fernández (Nacional Montevideo), Lorenzo Fernández (CA Peñarol), Conrado Häberli (Rampla Juniors FC), Agenor Muñiz (Montevideo Wanderers FC), José Nasazzi (Nacional Montevideo), Miguel Juan Olivera ( River Plate ), Marcelino Pérez (Nacional Montevideo), Juan Emilio Píriz ( Club Atlético Defensor ), José Alberto Taboada (Montevideo Wanderers), Erebo Zunino (CA Peñarol)
Coach: Raúl V. Blanco
Uruguay was by no means Traveled to Peru as a favorite, as Argentina was considered the stronger team in the 30s. An assessment that seemed to be confirmed after the first few games, because the record South American champions found it very difficult to face the outsiders from Peru and Chile. In the end there were rather happy and by no means convincing victories. But in the duel with their arch rivals, Uruguay once again showed its old class. In the first half they literally overran the favorite and ensured an early decision in this game and thus also in the tournament.

Argentina
Fernando Bello (goalkeeper, CA Independiente ), Sebastián Inocencio Gualco (goalkeeper, CA San Lorenzo de Almagro ), Arturo Arrieta (CA San Lorenzo de Almagro), Rodolfe De Jonge (CA Independiente), Antonia De Mare ( Racing Club ), Diego García (CA San Lorenzo de Almagro), Miguel Angel Lauri ( Estudiantes de La Plata ), Herminio Masantonio ( CA Huracán ), José María Minella ( Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata ), Antonio Sastre (CA Independiente), Roberto Sbarra (Estudiantes de La Plata), José Scarcella (Racing Club), Carlos Wilson ( Unión Talleres-Lanús ), Vincente Antonio Zito (Racing Club)
Coach: Manuel Seoane
Argentina was the clear favorite among the experts. In the opening matches against Chile and Peru, they made the considerably more sovereign impression compared with the "Urus" and achieved two clear successes. But in the "final" against the arch rivals you were caught freezing in the first half. Within 18 minutes they conceded 3 goals, which decided the game. The Argentines did n't even hit a consolation goal .

Peru
Juan Valdivieso (Goalkeeper, Alianza Lima ), Jorge Alcalde ( Sport Boys ), Vicente Arce ( Universitario (Lima) ), Mario de las Casas ( Atlético Chalaco ), Alberto Denegri (Universitario), Arturo Fernández (Universitario), Teodoro Fernández ( Universitario), Domingo García , Eulogio García (Alianza Lima), Jorge Góngora (Universitario), José María Lavalle (Alianza Lima), Narciso León (Alianza Lima), Alberto Montellanos (Alianza Lima), José Morales (Alianza Lima), Lizandro Nué ( Tarapacá FBC ), Lorenzo Pacheco , Juan Rivero , Carlos Tovar (Universitario), Alejandro Villanueva (Alianza Lima)
Coach: Telmo Carbajo
Peru had hoped for a little more because of the home advantage. But even in front of a home crowd, the two "big guys" from Argentina and Uruguay couldn't be tripped. The consolation was the happy 1-0 win in the last game against Chile, which secured third place. An important victory in the end, because after Uruguay and Argentina renounced Peru, Peru was allowed to travel to Berlin as a representative of South America .

Chile
Roberto Cortés (Goalkeeper, CSD Colo-Colo ), Isaías Azzerman (Goalkeeper, Audax Italiano ), Carlos Aranda (Audax Italiano), Enrique Arandea (Audax Italiano), José Avendaño ( CD Magallanes ), Moisés Avilés (Audax Italiano), Arturo Carmona (CD Magallanes), Ascanio Cortés (Audax Italiano), Carlos Giudice (Audax Italiano), Guillermo Gornall (Audax Italiano), Guillermo Riveros (Audax Italiano), Eduardo Schneberger (CSD Colo-Colo), Enrique Sorrel (CSD Colo-Colo ), Arturo Torres (CD Magallanes), Quintín Vargas (CD Magallanes), Carlos Vidal (CD Magallanes), Conrado Welch (CSD Colo-Colo)
Coach: Pedro Mazullo (Uruguay)
Chile was once again without a win at a Copa. Three defeats in three games could not satisfy the Chileans. But they hadn't played badly at all; with a little more luck against hosts Peru and Uruguay would have been a point.

Web links

• Tournament website 1935 at rsssf.com (engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detailed match report for the final, which appeared in the Uruguayan press on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the final (Spanish), accessed on February 7, 2012
2. ↑ ARGENTINA NATIONAL TEAM ARCHIVE (Grade 17)