Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones

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The 1948 trophy in the Vasco da Gama collection

The Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones , Portuguese Campeonato Sul-Americano de Campeões , German South American championship of champions , was a South American club soccer competition between the master clubs of seven countries in February and March 1948 in Santiago de Chile . The tournament was organized by the Chilean championship club CSD Colo-Colo . The winner and thus the first South American champion was CR Vasco da Gama from Brazil.

In 1996 the South American association CONMEBOL gave the tournament official status and recognized it as the forerunner of the Copa Libertadores . This enabled Vasco da Gama to participate in the Supercopa Sudamericana 1997, a competition between all previous South American champions.

history

Regular supranational club competitions in South America go back to the Copa Comeptencia between clubs from Argentina and Uruguay, which was held for the first time in 1905. This in turn led to the Copa Aldao , a trophy between the master clubs of both countries, which was played more or less regularly from 1913 to the 1950s. For a long time, however, further competitions were unthinkable due to the great distances involved. Even within a few countries, the distances proved too great for national championships. Bolivia and Brazil introduced the first national competition in the late 1950s, Peru only in 1966.

In 1929, the leaders of the Uruguayan top club Nacional Montevideo for the first time had more concrete thoughts on a South American club championship, which resulted in the geography of a potential venue for a tournament in which runners-up were to take part was considered in 1946. It was finally Robinson Alvarez Marín, the president of the top Chilean club Colo-Colo, who invited to a tournament in Santiago , the capital of his home country, at the beginning of 1948.

The tournament, the Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones , the South American championship of champions was a great success. In the 21 games there were 76 goals and thus 3.62 per game. An average of 39,549 viewers watched the games and generated gross income of 9,493,483 pesos.

Attendees

Remarks:

Tournament course

Vasco - River Muñoz in a duel, Moreno on the left

The favorite was the Argentine champions River Plate , who at that time had one of the most outstanding club formations in football history, known as La Maquina . Names like Juan Carlos Muñoz , José Manuel Moreno , Néstor Rossi , Ángel Labruna , Félix Loustau and the rising star Alfredo Di Stéfano still sound good today.

The challenger was the master of Rio de Janeiro Vasco da Gama , who had traveled from Brazil and trained by Flávio Costa , Izidor Kürschner's master student . Led by Augusto and Ely , and with dangerous strikers like Ademir de Menezes , Friaça and the young Francisco “Chico” Aramburu , they were still a blank slate, as no Brazilian team had been able to achieve greater success abroad until then.

Nacional Montevideo , tested for decades in the fight against the best Argentine teams , also raised its hopes . After Nacional had the upper hand in the first game against the Peruvian runner-up Deportivo Municipal just 3-2, the disillusionment followed in the second tournament game against Vasco. When the Cariocas attacked , the Uruguayan star Walter Gómez was able to equalize at short notice, but in the end it was 4-1 for the Brazilians, although their striker Ademir de Menezes was eliminated early with a broken leg - and was thus out for the rest of the tournament.

Nacional saved themselves in the next game against Litoral from the Bolivian capital La Paz with a 3-1 win, and after a clear 3-0 win against the favorites River Plate, hopes of a tournament victory re-emerged. But after a 3-0 win against the hosts Colo-Colo in the following game, their fate was no longer in the hands of the Uruguayans.

After Vasco lost the first point in his penultimate tournament game in a 1-1 draw against the hosts, there was now a quasi final against River on March 14th, which after the defeat against Nacional did not allow itself to slip again, but now needed a win to win the first South American Championship.

On this Sunday evening there was an open, fighting game between the Millonarios from Buenos Aires and the team from Rio, which was preparing to become the legendary Expresso da Vitória . Both goalkeepers - both River's mediocre Hector Grisetti and Moacyr Barbosa , who two years later, arguably wrongly, was blamed for Brazil's defeat in the 1950 World Cup final - were given frequent opportunities to excel. A goal Chico, one of the outstanding players on the pitch, was denied recognition by the Uruguayan referee Nobel Valentini and in the middle of the second half he was knocked out of the field after a tussle with the Argentine Méndez. The game ended goalless, making the Maltese cruisers undefeated as South America's first champions.

Games and final table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. Brazil 1889Brazil CR Vasco da Gama  6th  4th  2  0 012: 300  +9 10: 20
 2. ArgentinaArgentina River Plate  6th  4th  1  1 012: 400  +8 09: 30
 3. UruguayUruguay Nacional Montevideo  6th  4th  0  2 016:110  +5 08: 40
 4th Peru 1825Peru Deportivo Municipal  6th  3  0  3 012:110  +1 06: 60
 5. ChileChile CSD Colo-Colo  6th  2  2  2 011:110  ± 0 06: 60
 6th BoliviaBolivia CD Litoral  6th  1  0  5 009:180  −9 02:10
 7th EcuadorEcuador Club Sport Emelec  6th  0  1  5 004:180 −14 01:11
Estadio Nacional de Chile
02/11
CSD Colo-Colo 2: 2 Club Sport Emelec
02/14
CR Vasco da Gama 2: 1 CD Litoral
02/14
Nacional Montevideo 3: 2 Deportivo Municipal
02/18
River Plate 4-0 Club Sport Emelec
02/18
CR Vasco da Gama 4: 1 Nacional Montevideo
02/21
River Plate 2-0 Deportivo Municipal
02/21
CSD Colo-Colo 4: 2 CD Litoral
25.02.
Nacional Montevideo 3: 1 CD Litoral
25.02.
CR Vasco da Gama 4-0 Deportivo Municipal
28.02.
CR Vasco da Gama 1-0 Club Sport Emelec
28.02.
Deportivo Municipal 3: 1 CSD Colo-Colo
03.03.
CD Litoral 3: 1 Club Sport Emelec
03.03.
Nacional Montevideo 3-0 River Plate
08.03.
Deportivo Municipal 4-0 Club Sport Emelec
08.03.
CSD Colo-Colo 1: 1 CR Vasco da Gama
09.03.
River Plate 5: 1 CD Litoral
09.03.
CSD Colo-Colo 3: 2 Nacional Montevideo
14.03.
Nacional Montevideo 4: 1 Club Sport Emelec
14.03.
CR Vasco da Gama 0-0 River Plate
17.03.
Deportivo Municipal 3: 1 CD Litoral
17.03.
River Plate 1-0 CSD Colo-Colo

The decisive game

River Plate CR Vasco da Gama
River PlateRiver Plate
Sunday, March 14, 1948 at 7:00 p.m. in Santiago de Chile ( Estadio Nacional de Chile )
Result : 0-0
Spectators: 52,000
Referee: Nobel Valentini ( Uruguay ) UruguayUruguay 
CR Vasco da GamaCR Vasco da Gama


Hector Grisetti - Ricardo Vaghi , Francisco Rodríguez - Norberto Yácono (45th Osvaldo Méndez), Néstor Rossi , José Ramos (7th Ferrari) - Reyes (45th Juan Carlos Muñoz ), José Manuel Moreno , Alfredo Di Stéfano , Ángel Labruna , Félix Loustau
coach: José María Minella
Moacyr Barbosa - Augusto , Wilson ( Ramón Rafagnelli ) - Ely , Danilo Alvim , Jorge - Djalma , Maneca , Friaça , Ismael , Chico
Trainer: Flávio Costa
Expulsion: Méndez 29. (39.?) Expulsion: Chico 29. (39.?)

During the tournament, Vasco da Gama also used the following players:

Individual evidence

  1. La Nación. Volume 8, pages 15-16.

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