Football World Cup 1950 / Uruguay

This article covers the Uruguayan national soccer team at the 1950 World Cup .

qualification

Uruguay should have played in a qualifying group with Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, with the first two teams reaching the final. However, there was no game because Ecuador and Peru withdrew their reports and Uruguay and Paraguay were qualified.

Contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates	References
goalkeeper
8th	Roque Máspoli	CA Peñarol	10/12/1917	3	0	0
12	Aníbal Paz	Nacional Montevideo	05/21/1917	1	0	0
Defender
3	Schubert Gambetta	Nacional Montevideo	04/14/1920	2	0	0
5	Juan Carlos González	CA Peñarol	08/22/1924	2	0	0
6th	Matías González	Club Atlético Cerro	08/06/1925	4th	0	0
7th	William Martínez	Rampla Juniors FC	01/13/1928	0	0	0
19th	Eusebio Tejera	Nacional Montevideo	01/06/1922	4th	0	0
22nd	Héctor Vilches	Club Atlético Cerro	02/14/1926	0	0	0
midfield player
11	Washington Ortuño	CA Peñarol	05/13/1928	0	0	0
14th	Rodolfo Pini	Nacional Montevideo	??. ??. 1926	0	0	0
16	Víctor Rodríguez Andrade	Central Español FC	05/02/1927	4th	0	0
20th	Obdulio Jacinto Varela	CA Peñarol	09/20/1917	4th	1	0
striker
1	Julio César Britos	CA Peñarol	May 18, 1926	0	0	0
2	Juan Burgueño	Danubio FC	02/04/1923	0	0	0
4th	Alcides Ghiggia	CA Peñarol	12/22/1926	4th	4th	0
9	Óscar Omar Míguez	CA Peñarol	December 05, 1927	4th	4th	0
10	Rubén Morán	Club Atlético Cerro	08/06/1930	1	0	0
13	Julio Perez	Nacional Montevideo	06/19/1926	4th	0	0
15th	Luis Rijo	Central Español FC	09/28/1927	0	0	0
17th	Carlos Romero	Danubio FC	07.09.1927	0	0	0
18th	Juan Schiaffino	CA Peñarol	07/28/1925	4th	5	0
21st	Ernesto Vidal	CA Peñarol	11/15/1921	3	1	0
Trainer
	Juan Lopez		03/15/1908

The kinesiologist Juan C. Kirschberg, a native of Husum, is part of the Uruguayan medical care staff .

Games of the Uruguayan team

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Uruguay	8-0	2-0
2	Bolivia	0: 8	0: 2

Turkey and Scotland withdrew.

• Uruguay - Bolivia 8: 0 (4: 0)

Stadium: Estádio Independência ( Belo Horizonte )

Spectators: 5,000

Referee: Reader ( England )

Goals: 1-0 Míguez (14th), 2-0 Vidal (18th), 3-0 Schiaffino (23rd), 4-0 Míguez (45th), 5-0 Míguez (56th), 6-0 Schiaffino (59th), 7-0 Pérez (73rd), 8-0 Ghiggia (83rd)

Group IV consisted of only two teams. Uruguay and Bolivia only met for one game, which the Urus won 8-0. The half-left Juan Schiaffino with a total of two hits did particularly well in this game.

Final round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Uruguay	7: 5	5: 1
2	Brazil	14: 4	4: 2
3	Sweden	6:11	2: 4
4th	Spain	4:11	1: 5

• Uruguay - Spain 2: 2 (1: 2)

Stadium: Estádio do Pacaembu ( São Paulo )

Spectators: 44,000

Referee: Griffiths ( Wales )

Goals: 1: 0 Ghiggia (29th), 1: 1 Basora (32nd), 1: 2 Basora (39th), 2: 2 Varela (73rd)

• Uruguay - Sweden 3: 2 (1: 2)

Stadium: Estádio do Pacaembu ( São Paulo )

Spectators: 8,000

Referee: Galeati ( Italy )

Goals: 0: 1 Palmer (5th), 1: 1 Ghiggia (39th), 1: 2 Sundqvist (40th), 2: 2 Míguez (77th), 3: 2 Míguez (85th)

• Uruguay - Brazil 2: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Maracanã Stadium ( Rio de Janeiro )

Spectators: 200,000

Referee: Reader ( England )

Goals: 0: 1 Friaça (47th), 1: 1 Schiaffino (66th), 2: 1 Ghiggia (79th)

At the latest after Brazil's 7-1 victory over Sweden, the hosts were the huge favorites of the final group. Ademir & Co. fascinated the almost 140,000 spectators in the Maracana Stadium with absolute magic football. The Brazilians showed football par excellence like hardly any other team before. Inside strikers Zizinho, Ademir and Jair turned the Swedes upside down. When the Spaniards were also defeated by the hosts by 1: 6, the commentators hardly had enough superlatives for the unleashed soccer acrobats from Sugar Loaf. Meanwhile, the Uruguay team happily cramped through the first two games. Against Spain there was a difficult 2-2, which was only secured late by Varela's violent shot. The Swedes could only be defeated with the late goal to 3-2 by Miguez (85th). The Scandinavians won the match between Spain and Sweden 3-1, which meant third place in the final score of the tournament.

While the 'small final' only attracted 8,000 visitors in São Paulo, the decisive game for the title between Brazil and Uruguay took place at the same time in front of almost 200,000 spectators in the packed Maracanã Stadium . A draw was enough for the highly favored hosts to achieve the title against the Urus, the 1930 world champions. But already in the first round, the guests from Montevideo showed a brilliant defensive behavior. Due to the tight marking of the Brazilian ball artists and the aggressive pressing, the favorites were unable to develop their dreaded attack vortex. But in the end a draw was enough. When, shortly after the break, Frica made it 1-0 after Zizinho, everything seemed to go its way. But the Urus did not give up. A counterattack against right winger Ghiaggia landed at Schiaffino, who pulled off volley: 1: 1 (66th). It suddenly became quieter in the huge stadium. The Brazilians only needed to rock the result over time, but 11 minutes before the final whistle, Ghiaggia was through again and hit goalkeeper Barbosa from a tight angle. The favorites acted like paralyzed and hardly came to a halfway sensible move. The sensation was perfect and Uruguay became world champion for the second time. While 200,000 people left the stadium with drooping heads, the Urus celebrated the biggest football festival to date when they returned to Montevideo.