1928 Summer Olympics / Football

Football at the 1928 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Amsterdam , Arnhem , Rotterdam
Competition venue	Olympic Stadium , Het Nederlandsch Sportpark , Monnikenhuize , Spangen Stadium
Teams	17th
Nations	17th
Athletes	219 (219 )
date	May 27 to June 13, 1928
decisions	1
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With the IX. At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , a football competition was held. The tournament took place eight weeks before the official opening on July 29, 1928. There, then, as the only footballer in Olympic history, the Dutchman Harry Dénis took the Olympic oath . After 1924, Uruguay became Olympic champion again, with Argentina playing the first purely South American final. Until 2004 it was the only all-South American final at the Olympic soccer tournaments. Since the final ended 1-1 after extra time, there was a replay three days later, which the Uruguayans won 2-1. Both met again two years later in the final of the first soccer World Cup . The German team was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Uruguay in their first game against a South American team. With Egypt, an African team reached a semi-finals for the first time. For Mexico the round of 16 against Spain was the first game in Europe and against a European team, as well as the first game counted by FIFA and the consolation match against Chile the first game against a South American team. In the semifinals, Argentina and Egypt played their first international match between a South American and an African team.

Most of the matches in the 1928 Olympic football tournament were held in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam . Two matches of the round of 16 took place in the Het Nederlandsch Sportpark near the Olympic Stadium and the consolation round was played in the Monnikenhuize in Arnhem and in the Spangen Stadium in Rotterdam .

The tournament

→ Main article : All the games in the 1928 Olympic football tournament

Olympic football tournament 1928
Number of nations	17th
Olympic champion	Uruguay (2nd title)
venue	Amsterdam ( Arnhem Rotterdam )
Opening game	May 27, 1928
Endgame	June 13, 1928
Games	22nd
Gates	128  (⌀: 5.82 per game)
spectator	246,699  (⌀: 11,214 per game)
Top scorer	Domingo Tarasconi (11 goals)
References	5  (⌀: 0.23 per game)

The captains and referees before the first final game

date		game		Result	spectator
Preliminary round
27.5.	Portugal	-	Chile	4: 2 (2: 2)	1 [1]2,300
Round of 16
27.5.	Belgium	-	Luxembourg	5: 3 (3: 3)	1 [1]5,830
28.5.	Egypt	-	Turkey	7: 1 (2: 0)	1 [1]2,740
28.5.	German Empire	-	Switzerland	4: 0 (2: 0)	[1]16,160
29.5.	Italy	-	France	4: 3 (3: 2)	1 [1]2,510
29.5.	Argentina	-	United States	11: 2 (4: 0)	1 [1]3,850
29.5.	Portugal	-	Yugoslavia	2: 1 (1: 1)	2 [1]1,230
30.5.	Spain	-	Mexico	7: 1 (3: 0)	2 [1]2,350
30.5.	Uruguay	-	Netherlands	2: 0 (1: 0)	27,730
Quarter finals
1.6.	Italy	-	Spain	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1)	03,390
2.6.	Argentina	-	Belgium	6: 3 (3: 2)	16,400
3.6.	Uruguay	-	German Empire	4: 1 (2: 0)	25,130
4.6.	Egypt	-	Portugal	2: 1 (1: 0)	1 [1]3,450
Quarter Finals Playoff
4.6.	Italy	-	Spain	7: 1 (4: 0)	1 [1]4,770
Semifinals
6.6.	Argentina	-	Egypt	6: 0 (3: 0)	07,890
7.6.	Uruguay	-	Italy	3: 2 (3: 1)	15,230

Game for the bronze medal

Italy		Egypt
	June 9, 1928 in Amsterdam ( Olympic Stadium ) Result: 11: 3 (6: 2) Spectators: 6,378 Referee: John Langenus ( Belgium )
	Giampiero Combi - Delfo Bellini , Umberto Caligaris - Fulvio Bernardini , Alfredo Pitto , Pietro Genovesi - Elvio Banchero , Adolfo Baloncieri , Angelo Schiavio , Mario Magnozzi , Virgilio Felice Levratto	Abdel Hamid Hamdi - Sayed Abaza , Gaber El-Soury - Mhamed Shemais , Ali El-Hassani , Abdel Halim Hassan - Moussa El-Ezam Hassan , Ali Riadh , Ismail El-Sayed Houda , Mahmoud Ismail Houda , Gamil El-Zobair
	1: 0 Schiavio (6th) 2: 1 Baloncieri (14th) 3: 2 Banchero (19th) 4: 2 Banchero (39th) 5: 2 Schiavio (42nd) 6: 2 Banchero (44th) 7: 2 Baloncieri (52nd) 8: 2 Schiavio (58th) 9: 3 Magnozzi (72nd) 10: 3 Magnozzi (80th) 11: 3 Magnozzi (88th)	1: 1 Riadh (12th) 2: 2 Riadh (16th) 8: 3 El-Ezam Hassan (60th)

final

Uruguay		Argentina
	June 10, 1928 in Amsterdam ( Olympic Stadium ) Result: 1: 1 (1: 0) Spectators: 28,250 Referee: Johannes Mutters ( Netherlands )
	Andrés Mazzali - José Nasazzi , Pedro Arispe - José Leandro Andrade , Lorenzo Fernández , Álvaro Gestido - Santos Urdinarán , Héctor Castro , Pedro Petrone , José Pedro Cea , Antonio Cámpolo	Ángel Bossio - Fernando Paternóster , Ludovico Bidoglio - Luis Monti , Juan Evaristo , Segundo Medici - Raimundo Orsi , Enrique Gainzaraín , Manuel Ferreira , Domingo Tarasconi , Adolfo Carricaberry
	1-0 Petrone (23rd)	1: 1 Ferreira (50th)

Uruguay		Argentina
	June 13, 1928 in Amsterdam ( Olympic Stadium ) Result: 2: 1 (1: 1) Spectators: 28,110 Referee: Johannes Mutters ( Netherlands )
	Andrés Mazzali - José Nasazzi , Pedro Arispe - José Leandro Andrade , Juan Píriz , Álvaro Gestido - Juan Pedro Arremón , Héctor Scarone , René Borjas , José Pedro Cea , Roberto Figueroa	Octavio Díaz - Fernando Paternóster , Ludovico Bidoglio - Luis Monti , Juan Evaristo , Segundo Medici - Raimundo Orsi , Feliciano Perducca , Manuel Ferreira , Domingo Tarasconi , Adolfo Carricaberry
	1: 0 Figueroa (17th) 2: 1 Scarone (68th)	1: 1 Monti (28th)

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Double events in each case.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Old Stadium Amsterdam

Consolation round

The last attempt was made to hold a consolation round in Amsterdam. However, only four of the thirteen teams eliminated before the semi-finals took part.

date		game		Result	Stadion	spectator
First round
5.6.	Netherlands	-	Belgium	3: 1 (2: 0)	Spangen Stadium Rotterdam	20,000
5.6.	Chile	-	Mexico	3: 1 (1: 1)	Monnikenhuize Arnhem	06,000
Second round
8.6.	Netherlands	-	Chile	2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 0: 0) *	Spangen Stadium Rotterdam	18,000

* After the draw in the second round, hosts Netherlands gave the Chileans the “consolation prize”.

Medal ranks

Silver medalist Argentina

rank	Medalist
Gold Uruguay	José Leandro Andrade , Pedro Arispe , Juan Arremón , René Borjas , Adhemar Canavesi , Héctor Castro , Antonio Cámpolo , José Pedro Cea , Lorenzo Fernández , Roberto Figueroa , Álvaro Gestido , Andrés Mazzali (TW), José Nasazzi , Juan Píriz , Pedro Petrone , Héctor Scarone , Santos Urdinarán Coach: Primo Gianotti
Silver Argentina	Ludovico Bidoglio , Ángel Bossio (TW), Saúl Calandra , Adolfo Carricaberry , Roberto Cherro , Octavio Díaz , Juan Evaristo , Manuel Ferreira , Enrique Gainzarain , Luis Monti , Segundo Medici , Raimundo Orsi , Rodolfo Orlandini , Fernando Paternoster , Feliciano Angel Perducca , Domingo Tarasconi Coach: José Lago Millán
Bronze Italy	Adolfo Baloncieri , Elvio Banchero , Delfo Bellini , Fulvio Bernardini , Umberto Caligaris , Giampiero Combi (TW), Attilio Ferraris , Pietro Genovesi , Antonio Janni , Virgilio Felice LEVRATTO , Mario Magnozzi , Alfredo Pitto , Silvio Pietro Boni , Giovanni De Pra , Enrico Rivolta , Virginio Rosetta , Gino Rossetti , Angelo Schiavio Coach: Augusto Rangone

Best goal scorers

rank	player	Gates
1	Domingo Tarasconi	11
2	Adolfo Baloncieri	6th
	Manuel Ferreira	6th
3	Elvio Banchero	4th
	Richard Hofmann	4th
	Roberto Cherro	4th
	Mario Magnozzi	4th
	Mahmound Mokhtar	4th
	Pedro Petrone	4th
	José Maria Yermo	4th
	Ali Mohammed Riyadh	4th
	Angelo Schiavio	4th
	Virgilio Felice Levratto	4th
...
24	Josef Hornauer	1
...

literature

• International Federation of Football History & Statistics : Olympic Football Tournaments [2] . Wiesbaden 2000.

Web links

• Official website of FIFA
• IFFHS website (Olympic Football Tournaments)
• Detailed data on rsssf.com