Tour of Europe from Peñarol Montevideo 1927
Between the beginning of April and the end of June 1927, the Uruguayan football club Peñarol Montevideo made a trip through Europe . This joins a series of similar tours (with the Spanish word gira ) that other South American clubs contested in the 1920s. They were primarily aimed at establishing an exchange between the almost unknown football cultures of both continents.
The team from the capital Montevideo - also known as "black and yellow" ( sp .: Aurinegros ) because of their jersey pattern - played 19 games against 16 teams in six countries and was able to achieve seven wins. The first half of the trip in particular was characterized by poor performance by the Uruguayans, which was also reflected in the sometimes negative media coverage. Although the team then offered stabilized and very popular football, the club management ultimately drew a critical conclusion from Gira - also taking into account insufficient planning in advance and the resulting financial loss . Nevertheless, the aim of the tour had been achieved to attract international attention and to make South American football better known in Europe.
La gira
prehistory
Until the 1920s, the football cultures of Europe and South America existed relatively independently, without too many intersections and knowledge of one another. Southampton FC was the first European club to travel to South America in 1904 and played six games in Argentina . Other British clubs and Torino FC in 1914 followed, with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay always being the target countries . Without paying too much attention in war-torn Europe, CONMEBOL, the first continental football association in South America and the Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol - the forerunner of the Copa América - the world's first competition for national football teams, was launched in 1916 . However, for a long time, Europeans viewed themselves as a superior force in this sport compared to the “exotic people from afar”. Accordingly, there was great astonishment in May and June 1924 when the Uruguayan national soccer team defeated the European teams of Yugoslavia , France and the Netherlands in a superior manner during the Olympic soccer tournament in Paris and finally won the gold medal with an equally clear victory against Switzerland . The Europeans were enthusiastic about the creative and elegant style of play of the Uruguayans and began to be more interested in the local football culture.
From this point on, several South American clubs went on tours through Europe - in order to establish contacts, gain match practice against new opponents and gain recognition for their own footballing work. Between March and August 1925, for example, the Club Nacional de Football from Montevideo played 38 games in France , Spain , the Netherlands , Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Portugal , Austria and Switzerland , of which the South Americans won 26. Also from March - but only until the beginning of June - the top Argentinian team CA Boca Juniors toured from the capital Buenos Aires through Spain, France and the German Empire and won 15 of their 19 matches. The trip of the Chilean capital club CSD Colo-Colo , which played 22 games in Portugal and Spain between April and June 1927 and finished twelve victoriously, is also very well known .
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To date, Peñarol Montevideo has faced European opponents four times at home in Montevideo:
- On June 11, 1905, the English Nottingham Forest FC made a guest appearance at the Field de Villa Peñarol . At that time it was little more than an ordinary sports field, it was the home ground of the Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club (CURCC), which operated as Club Atlético Peñarol from 1913. The Aurinegros lost this game clearly 1: 6.
- On September 10, 1922, the Czechoslovak Teplice FK - champions 1921 and 1922 of the German Football Association for Bohemia (DFVfB) within the Československá associace footballová (ČSAF) - stopped at Peñarol's Estadio Pocitos during his South American tour . However, the game had to be canceled when the Uruguayan hosts were 1-0 due to heavy rain.
- Also at the Estadio Pocitos they met on July 4, 1923 on the Third Lanark AC from the Scottish Glasgow and lost 0: 2nd
- Finally, Peñarol Montevideo played on July 18, 1926 at the Estadio Gran Parque Central against the Spanish RCD Espanyol Barcelona . You could prevail with 1-0.
In Uruguay football was still an amateur sport around 1927; the Primera División , established in 1900 , was not professionalized until 1932. By 1922, Peñarol Montevideo (or the CURCC) had won the Uruguayan championship seven times. Then at the end of the year, however, the club was excluded from the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (AUF) together with Central due to serious differences and another association was founded with the Federación Uruguaya de Football (FUF), in which some of the Uruguayan clubs run in parallel organized. They organized their own championship for two associations and also set up their own national team. Both leagues were merged again in 1926 and the championship participants for the 1927 season were determined in the so-called Torneo del Consejo provisional. However, this split had drastic consequences for the players of Peñarol Montevideo insofar as they had not been nominated by the AUF into the roster for the 1924 Summer Olympics and thus did not belong to the team that was celebrated in Europe.
Thanks to the increasing number of members and a responsible and competent club management, Peñarol was an economically very solid club. At the beginning of 1927 the decision was made to organize a tour of Europe on their own. This should be both a reward and a compensation for the players who had won the Torneo del Consejo provisional the previous year and were deprived of the opportunity to play in Europe as early as 1924 because of the division.
Squad
| Supervisory staff | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | function | ||
| Vicente Rubino | Delegation President | ||
| Pablo Perazzo | High-ranking member of the association | ||
| Leonardo De Lucca | Head coach | ||
| Alberto Nogués | Team doctor | ||
| Roberto Fígoli | Physiotherapist | ||
With the exception of 36-year-old star striker José Piendibene , who stayed in Uruguay for medical rehabilitation after an injury , the entire first team was available for the trip. Due to the temporal overlap, the players were withdrawn from the national championship, which was instead played with the second team. Nonetheless, in 1927 Peñarol finished second behind Rampla Juniors FC .
Some of the athletes had already won international titles. So were Juan Legnazzi , Antonio Campolo and Pascual Ruotta the Uruguayan national team , which victorious from the in Chile discharged 1920 South American Championship emerged. Ladislao Pérez (at that time still playing for Montevideo Wanderers FC ) won with Uruguay in front of a home crowd at the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1923 and was coached by Leonardo De Lucca , who now looked after Peñarol four years later. He remained loyal to the club and after the league professionalization in 1932 was several times for a short time coach of the Aurinegros , with whom he was able to win the championship in 1932.
Although no team doctor officially accompanied the trip, defender Alberto Nogués worked as a doctor in Uruguay and took care of the team's medical needs in Europe. After retiring from his career in 1936, he continued to work in the association's medical department for a few decades.
Contrary to the usual practice at the time with such giras , the people in charge of Peñarol Montevideo decided not to take players from other clubs with them and to integrate them into their own team for the duration of the trip.
Course of the trip
Difficult start in the old world
On Tuesday, March 15, 1927, the crew on board the SS Conte Verde cast off in Montevideo . The spacious steamboat offered gymnastics and sports facilities on deck, which was particularly relevant for the athletes, as they were able to maintain their physical fitness. After making stops in the Brazilian cities of Santos and Rio de Janeiro , the Atlantic Ocean was crossed. The plan was to go ashore in Barcelona , from there to travel by train to the French capital Paris and play a first game there. A few days before arrival, the club's board of directors, who was in telegraph connection to the mainland, informed the team that there was a change of plan and that the first game would take place in Vienna . The Conte Verde arrived in Barcelona on the morning of March 23rd. The tour group was welcomed by local athletes and received a brief city tour before one around 12:30 am with the boat to Genoa drove. It was planned to return to Spain in a few weeks and play games against FC Barcelona and RCD Espanyol Barcelona . Local athletes also celebrated the arrival of the travelers in Genoa. At this point in time, the planned games in Germany had not yet been finalized due to financial disagreements between the German clubs and Peñarol. Although the Uruguayans viewed the trip as a friendly and did not intend to generate any income, they still wanted to cover their own expenses with entry fees. They asked for this money in US dollars , which the Germans didn't like. In addition, a game against CFC Genoa was planned in Genoa before the trip to Vienna should continue. But this did not materialize.
The first game of Gira - Peñarol Montevideo's first game on European soil - was finally kicked off on Sunday, April 3, 1927, at 4 p.m. by the Czechoslovak referee Zadak. Opponents in the Hohe Warte stadium were a Viennese city selection made up of players from the clubs SC Hakoah Wien , SK Rapid Wien , First Vienna FC 1894 , Wiener AC , Floridsdorfer AC , SC Wacker Wien and 1. Simmeringer SC . The exotic team attracted numerous spectators to the stadium; the estimates differ between 40,000 and 80,000 visitors. After just ten minutes, Pablo Terevinto scored the first goal for the Uruguayans, who were superior in the first half. However, their performance decreased in the further course of the game, so that after conceding three goals they lost 3-1 within nine minutes. More painful than the defeat, however, was the failure of Alberto Nogués, who injured his knee and had to forego further appearances during the tour. In the following months he concentrated on his work as a team doctor. During the encounter, fans, journalists and the Viennese team registered some peculiarities in the game of the South Americans, which contradicted the European tactics. So Peñarol formed for example with a kick of Ferdinand Wesely no wall on - instead, the two defenders presented the goalkeeper on the goal line.
A week later, on April 10th, in front of 30,000 spectators in the municipal stadium on Grünwalder Strasse in Munich, there was a game against FC Bayern Munich , in which the Aurinegros were deprived of their deserved equalization and scored an own goal in the 87th minute . that sealed the 1: 2 defeat. The match against Hamburger SV , which referee Alfred Birlem led on April 15 in the Altona stadium , was similarly unfortunate . A dubious penalty decided them in favor of the North Germans, who ultimately won 3-2. At the same time as Peñarol's tour of Germany began, RCD Espanyol Barcelona presented its calendar for the next few months in Spain , which, contrary to expectations, did not include a friendly match against the black and yellow. The explanation was that there had been no negotiations.
With these three defeats behind them, the team traveled to Dresden to compete against the Dresdner SC - Central German Champion of 1926 . The meeting there turned into an emotional highlight of the trip due to the warmth on all sides and a real folk festival atmosphere. In the afternoon of the day before the game, ten private cars picked up the guests from the Westminster Hotel in the Südvorstadt district and drove them to the New Town Hall , where they were greeted by a large crowd. City Councilor Dr. Marthes, the chairman of the office for physical exercise, greeted the players personally and then they were taken on a city tour, which ended on the White Deer . In the Luisenhof restaurant , the opponents met on friendly terms and let the day end in a sociable way. The game itself - for which the Greiling cigarette factory published several collector's pictures - took place on April 17th with rain showers and in front of 14,000 spectators in the stadium at the Ostragehege . At the entrance, the players of the youth teams of the Dresdner SC formed a line for the Uruguayans, before referee Werner from SpVgg Dresden-Löbtau kicked off the game in 1893. The Aurinegros were overwhelmingly superior for the first 20 minutes and ultimately the decision was only made in the final minute when the Dresden team won 2-1 with a repeated hand penalty.
A 0: 1 against Hertha BSC in the Berlin Poststadion on April 19 - after all the fourth game in nine days - increased the number of defeats in Europe to five in a row, which were not matched by any positive results. The well-traveled athletes experienced the first of this kind on April 24th when they met a selection of cities in the Waldstadion in Frankfurt , consisting of players from Eintracht Frankfurt (including Franz Schütz and Willi Pfeiffer ), Rot-Weiss Frankfurt and FSV Frankfurt ( among others Albert Eschenlohr ). Peco Bauwens , who later became the first president of the German Football Association , led the game and the 10,000 spectators saw a half-time score of 1: 1. In the second half, Club Atlético Peñarol, in the person of its captain Pascual Ruotta, benefited from two dropouts by Frankfurt goalkeeper Willy Trumpp . Ruotta initially used his weak defense to take the lead. A little later, after a penalty shot sharply by Ruotta, Trumpp slipped the ball already held into the goal, which marked the final score of 3: 1 for Peñarol. After this triumph, those in charge of the delegation gave their players a short break, which is why they went to Paris to relax for a few days. At least the measure did not have a negative effect, because when the next game against the Young Fellows Zurich came up on May 1st in Zurich , they scored another 1-0 victory.
This was followed by two encounters with the best teams in Central Europe at the time: SK Rapid Wien had just won the 1926/1927 Austrian Cup and AC Sparta Prague had recently become Czechoslovak champions in 1925/1926 and 1927. Above all, however, both clubs should meet later in the year in the final of the first edition of the Mitropa Cup, the world's first major international competition for club soccer teams and the most important trophy in continental European club soccer in the period before the Second World War . This final should win Prague 7-4 (home and return). The favorite roles were clearly distributed and SK Rapid Wien actually prevailed on May 4th in its home, the Pfarrwiese , 5-0 against Peñarol. Four days later, in front of 20,000 spectators in Prague's Letná stadium , the Uruguayans fared more mildly when they only had to admit defeat 0-1 because of a late own goal in the 85th minute. Paying tribute to the extremely good atmosphere in the stadium, a game against a combined team from AC Sparta Prague and SK Slavia Prague was planned for the next day . But this game didn't come off.
Conciliatory second half
After the defeat in Prague, the team from Montevideo took a 13-day break to train and relax. It can be assumed that coach De Lucca changed his tactics during this time, adapted the style of play better to the European opponents and emphatically motivated his players to perform better. In fact, the second half of the Gira was much more successful than the beginning; of the last ten games, the Peñarol lost only one.
The series of successes began in Lausanne on May 21 , when the overwhelmed FC Lausanne-Sport had to admit defeat to the attacking Uruguayans at the Stade de la Pontaise 1: 7. The game was kicked off at 5:45 p.m. by the local referee Demartines, but attracted few spectators due to bad weather. Those who found their way to the stadium saw that Paola, Sacco and Ruotta each managed a double. The next day there was a 1-1 draw against a municipal selection in Bern , although the benevolent audience awarded Peñarol the moral victory. The trip to Switzerland ended on May 26th in Geneva with a game against Servette FC Genève - the national champions of the 1925/1926 season . Peñarol won the game 1-0 and then traveled on to Paris .
In the Stade Buffalo there in the suburb of Montrouge , they competed three days later against a team officially called the Paris city selection. In fact, the team consisted of players from both the capital clubs RC Paris , Red Star Paris (winner of the Coupe de France 1920/1921 , 1921/1922 , 1922/1923 ) and Stade Français as well as the suburban clubs Football Étoile Club de Levallois , Stade olympique de l'Est and Club athlétique de Vitry together, but also included players from Stade Reims . Before the start of the game, which ended 1-1, all athletes and the audience observed a minute's silence in memory of the unexpectedly deceased rugby union player Aimé Cassayet-Armagnac and the lost pilots Charles Nungesser and François Coli .
During the last two and a half weeks of the tour, the Uruguayans made a guest appearance in Spain, met three opponents there and also played a game of revenge. FC Barcelona had to solve some organizational problems in order to meet the demands of Peñarol. At the end of May, immediately after the guest performance in Paris, the Spanish press confirmed:
- “The nimbus of prestige and class that the American team enjoys across Europe was transformed, as soon as they heard of their trip, into a series of contracts that made the absence of this famous team from our Las Corts pitch fearful. But our masterful club, overcoming all obstacles and ready for all material sacrifices, finally achieved the commitment of such a respected team to visit us on the dates given. "
When the team finally reached Barcelona on June 1st - more than two months after first stepping on European soil there - the atmosphere was very friendly from the start. The Myrurgia perfumery made silver goblets for the lots that were exhibited in the city center beforehand. However, Peñarol's delegation president Rubino was faced with allegations about the poor performance of his club. He justified this, among other things, with the bad weather, partial referees in Germany as well as with Nogués' injury and a neuralgia from which Silva suffered. He also stated:
- "We have visited countries which, believe me, I will not visit again, not even as a single tourist."
The first game against FC Barcelona took place on June 5th at Camp de Les Corts . The kick-off came from the Barcelonese Esteban Pedrol , who leaned on a walking stick and was accompanied by players from both teams entered the stadium after suffering a broken tibia and fibula two months earlier in the game against Valencia CF. The match was lost 5-1 for Peñarol, but the second leg on the following day was a 1-1 draw and the audience in the stands applauded the guests. As a farewell, the Uruguayan delegation sent a letter of thanks to the President of FC Barcelona, in which the hospitality and the great sporting spirit of the Catalans , especially the spectators, were emphasized. The Aurinegros expected a completely different picture in mid-June in the Spanish capital Madrid . A summer heat wave hit the city and the next opponent - Atlético Madrid - had decided to spare their first team and only use the second team and substitutes for the friendly matches against Peñarol. The population also showed little interest in the games (5: 2 and 4: 3 for the Uruguayans) and only comparatively few spectators followed them in the Stadium Metropolitano de Madrid . It was interesting to meet the goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora from Espanyol Barcelona , who helped out the Madrilenians and was on the pitch for one half. On his club's South American tour the year before, he had been overcome by José Piendibene at the Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo when Peñarol won 1-0. The winners then wanted to sign him, which ultimately remained unsuccessful. The last two games of the Gira graduated from Peñarol on 19 and 22 June in the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia against Valencia CF . In the first leg, which ended 0-0, both teams missed a penalty each ; Valencia deliberately did so as a gesture of fair play , as it was wrongly given by referee Vidal Royo. After goalkeeper Biscardi was able to parry a penalty in the second game, the Uruguayans won 2-1 and said goodbye to Europe with a victory.
On June 23, the team drove from Valencia to Barcelona and on June 24, the SS Conte Verde set off for South America.
statistics
| date | place | Stadion | opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/03/1927 | Vienna | Hohe Warte stadium |
 Viennese city selection
|
1: 3 |
| 04/10/1927 | Munich | Grünwald Stadium |
 FC Bayern Munich
|
1: 2 |
| 04/15/1927 | Hamburg | Altona stadium |
Hamburger SV
|
2: 3 |
| 04/17/1927 | Dresden | Stadium at the Ostragehege |
Dresdner SC
|
1: 2 |
| 04/19/1927 | Berlin | Post Stadium |
Hertha BSC
|
0: 1 |
| 04/24/1927 | Frankfurt am Main | Forest stadium |
Frankfurt city selection
|
3: 1 |
| 05/01/1927 | Zurich | Förrlibuck Stadium |
 Young Fellows Zurich
|
1-0 |
| 05/04/1927 | Vienna | Parish meadow |
SK Rapid Vienna
|
0: 5 |
| 05/08/1927 | Prague | Letná Stadium |
 AC Sparta Prague
|
0: 1 |
| May 21, 1927 | Lausanne | Stade de la Pontaise |
FC Lausanne Sports
|
7: 1 |
| 05/22/1927 | Bern | Wankdorf Stadium |
Bern city selection
|
1: 1 |
| 05/26/1927 | Geneva |
Servette FC Genève
|
1-0 | |
| 05/29/1927 | Paris | Buffalo Stadium |
 Paris city selection
|
1: 1 |
| 06/05/1927 | Barcelona | Camp de les Corts |
 FC Barcelona
|
1: 5 |
| 06/06/1927 | Barcelona | Camp de les Corts |
FC Barcelona
|
1: 1 |
| 06/12/1927 | Madrid | Estadio Metropolitano |
CA de Madrid
|
5: 2 |
| 06/15/1927 | Madrid | Estadio Metropolitano |
CA de Madrid
|
4: 3 |
| 06/19/1927 | Valencia | Estadio Mestalla |
Valencia CF
|
0-0 |
| 06/22/1927 | Valencia | Estadio Mestalla |
Valencia CF
|
2: 1 |
| Games | Victories | draw | Defeats | Gates | Goal difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19th | 7th | 4th | 8th | 32:33 | -1 |
| Pl. | player | Gates |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Antonio Sacco | 7th |
| Pablo Terevinto | ||
| 2. | Peregrino Anselmo | 6th |
| 3. | Pascual Ruotta | 4th |
| 4th | Pascual Paola | 3 |
| 5. | Ladislao Pérez | 2 |
| Arturo Suffiotti |
- Note: Peñarol scored 31 of the 32 own goals himself; one was contributed by Antonio Rey from Valencia CF as an own goal. Of the 33 goals conceded, two were own goals - Denis D'Agosto underwent one against FC Bayern Munich and Pascual Ruotta one against AC Sparta Prague.
Follow-up, impact and outlook
In retrospect, the planning and implementation of the Gira sometimes appears to be insufficiently thought out. An example of this are the complications during the entire travel time when negotiating contracts for games and entry fees and the sometimes presumptuous handling of the Uruguayan delegation with the European teams. The order of the games, which required numerous long train journeys to regions that had already been visited, was also not ideal. A skillful planning and route optimization could have saved the players some grueling ride. It is possible that these organizational inattentions can also be traced back to the new experiences and unfamiliar European conditions for all involved.
The course of the trip met with displeasure within the management of Peñarol Montevideo. On the one hand, they were bothered by the poor results and on the other hand by the economic aspects, because the Gira had made the club a loss of 9,000 Uruguayan pesos . The Board of Directors took over responsibility and resigned almost completely - the Vice President, the Secretary General, the Treasurer and the assessors vacated their posts. Only Julio María Sosa , president of the association since 1921, remained in office until 1928.
The trip was very successful, however, in terms of increasing the level of awareness of the team overseas or, for the first time, getting it into the public consciousness of European football officials and those interested in football. In the same year 1927, for example, the Spanish Real Madrid CF undertook a tour of South, Central and North America. On July 24, 1927, the Whites and the Aurinegros met and parted 0-0. Other European teams made stops at Peñarol on their respective South American trips in the late 1920s. Encouraged by the very good relationships established between the two clubs during the Gira , there was a game against FC Barcelona on August 26, 1928, which also ended in a 1-1 draw. On June 9, 1929, the Uruguayans defeated English Chelsea FC 2-1 and on August 3 of the same year Ferencváros Budapest - then reigning Hungarian champions and title holder of the Mitropa Cup - 2-0, before a 1-1 draw on August 31 the Torino followed. All these games took place at the Estadio Pocitos in Montevideo , the home of Peñarol at the time.
Some of the players involved in the trip were to celebrate great international successes. So were Juan Pedro Arremón , Antonio Campolo and Peregrino Anselmo coach Primo Gianotti in the Uruguayan squad for the Olympic Games in 1928 in Amsterdam called, where the Celeste defended their gold medal from the 1924th Anselmo was not used during the four games, but played in July 1930 at the first World Cup , which was held in front of a home crowd in Uruguay. He contributed three goals in two matches - including two goals in the semifinals against Yugoslavia - and at the end of the tournament was crowned the world's best team with his comrades.
Media coverage
The trip by the top Uruguayan team also attracted media attention. In the German Reich and in Spain , not only local newspapers, but also national sports magazines - such as Fußball , der Kicker and El Mundo Deportivo - reported on the games. El Gráfico accompanied the event for South American fans . Many sports journalists rated Peñarol's style of play as very attractive, but not necessarily offensive. The team dominated many games, but rarely developed a goal threat. With regard to the tactics of the Uruguayans, however, the newspaper articles painted an extremely ambivalent and sometimes contradicting picture.
After the first encounter at the beginning of April against the Viennese city selection, El Mundo Deportivo summed up :
- “The first half went well for the Uruguayans, who played an excellent combination game and managed to dominate a little. [...] One expects Peñarol's next appearances with great interest. "
Nonetheless, after the defeat against FC Bayern Munich, a local sports magazine assumed the black and yellow "an outdated system". In contrast, there were reports in the Dresden press, which raved about the “breathtaking South American combination game”. The Dresdner Anzeiger identified the change in climate as the primary cause of Peñarol's series of defeats and cited other factors that on the one hand the guests may have often underestimated their European opponents, but on the other hand they were often disadvantaged by the referees. The same argument was put forward by the Dresdner Latest News , which after the game against Dresdner SC - decided only by a repeated hand penalty in the final minute - heavily criticized the referee's performance and indirectly accused him of a one-sided performance in favor of the German team. After the Uruguayans were able to fight their first victory of the tour against the Frankfurt city selection, it was the kicker who criticized the way the foreign team played extremely sharply and directly:
- “Why such expensive and foreign teams? Every southern German district league team is better than Penarol. The fabulous ball technique and treatment, which the players praised, was completely absent. They may be acrobats, but they are bad acrobats. They have no idea of tactics, and apparently never heard of teamwork. The only thing that impressed every now and then was the head game of individual players. - It's not worth the effort to put a lot of words to Penarol because the players are from South America. [...] The Frankfurt team was easy to beat. It consisted of players from three clubs. [...] These eleven people never got together. [...] In the end, especially in the second half of the game, he was terribly boring. [...] And the spectators were happy that this senseless kicking was over. No better weather suited this performance. It was pouring down at times. "
El Mundo Deportivo held against it and a few days later assessed the high defeat against SK Rapid Wien (0: 5) and the narrowly lost game against AC Sparta Prague (0: 1) as follows:
- “They should have scored at least as many goals [as SK Rapid Wien], but in front of the goal they are innocence personified and it seems they don't know what makes a shot on goal. The same thing happened in Prague. Sparta defeated Peñarol 1-0 in front of 20,000 spectators regardless of the superiority of Peñarol, who shone through his tactics and technique. It was the case that the audience gave the foreigners an extraordinary amount of applause and whistled off the Czechoslovak champions. "
The Tribune de Lausanne also joined in the praise after Peñarol Montevideo had defeated FC Lausanne-Sport on May 21, 7-1. He drew a comparison with England's Manchester United FC , who had also played a friendly match in the same place six days earlier and won 3-1. In particular, the newspaper highlighted Peñarol's excellent positional play and pressing , naming the game:
- “An interesting encounter and a demonstration of beautiful football. [...] The South Americans shape the football game a lot more [compared to Manchester United FC] with verve and exuberance. They carry out their attacks with breathtaking speed and a completely Mediterranean doggedness. They surprise the opponent with their violence and often go with speed, which is what makes their attacks so effective. It must also be said that the team of guests consists of very brilliant individualists who realize a very well combined team game. […] The Uruguayan team made a strong impression. It has a remarkable sharpness and the number of attackers works enormously. It is true that this is admirably supported by the middle and back ranks who tirelessly fuel the attack. So it is that the two back - every time the front rush into the Lausanne half - advance to the center line of the court and play back the balls that reach them. This defense, by the way, is great. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ European trip of Club Atlético Peñarol 1927 - match details . Retrieved from rsssf.com ( Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ) on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ European trip of Club Nacional de Football 1925 . Retrieved from rsssf.com ( Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ) on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ European Trip of CA Boca Juniors 1925 . Retrieved from rsssf.com ( Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ) on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ CSD Colo-Colo (Santiago de Chile) Tour to America and Iberia 1927 . Retrieved from rsssf.com ( Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ) on April 14, 2017.
- ^ British Clubs in Argentina and Uruguay (1904–1929) . Retrieved from rsssf.com ( Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ) on April 14, 2017.
- ^ European Clubs in Argentina and Uruguay (1914–1935) . Retrieved from rsssf.com ( Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ) on April 14, 2017.
- ^ Río de la Plata Trip of Third Lanark 1923 . Retrieved from rsssf.com ( Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ) on April 14, 2017.
- ^ South American Trip of RCD Español 1926 . Retrieved from rsssf.com ( Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ) on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Álvaro Cabrera: Rescatando la Gira Europea de 1927 on October 23, 2013 on campeondelsiglo.com . Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ↑ Match report for the game against the Viennese city selection. Retrieved from austriasoccer.at on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e The South Americans are coming! On July 11, 2014 on the homepage of the Sports Museum Friedrichstadt. Retrieved from dsc-museum.de on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ Festschrift - 50 Years of the Rapid Sports Club from 1949. Retrieved from rapid.iam.at on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ Report on the game against the Frankfurt city selection. Retrieved from eintracht-archiv.de on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ a b Tribune de Lausanne , 35th year, № 141, May 22, 1927, page 4.
- ↑ Kicker , April 26, 1927.