Five Facts You May Not Know About The 1930 World Cup - Part Six

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1. During Argentina's progress to the World Cup Final they used 21 players out of their 22 man squad. Only Edmundo Piaggio from Lanus was unused. Not once did they use the same team line-up in their five matches. Loss of form, psychological issues, injuries and death threats determined team selection.

2. There were five foreign-born coaches at the 1930 World Cup: Hungarian Gyorgy Orth directed Chile. The Spaniard with gypsy blood, Juan Luque de Serrallonga led the Mexicans. Argentinian mestizo José Duran Laguna was in charge of the Paraguayans. The Peruvians had the Spaniard Francisco Bru at the helm while the Scot Robert Millar was in charge of the United States. Three of the five had coached in the countries beforehand while Orth and Bru had been offered contracts to come to Chile and Peru.

3. Mexican defender Manuel Rosas became the first footballer in World Cup history to score an own goal when he headed past his own keeper in his teams 3-0 defeat to Chile (16 July).

4. Carlos Adolfo Schneeberger Lemp, known as 'El Gringo' and also 'Montón de letras' (Bundle of letters), was Chile's captain. Born to Swiss immigrants, his surname is habitual in origin. "Schnee" meaning snow and "berger" translating to berg or mountain.

5. Vasco da Gama player Paschoal announced in June 1930 that he was withdrawing from Brazil's World Cup Squad. Worried about losing pay from his employer he announced, "I can not leave my family to suffer the martyrdom of hunger."

1. Durante el progreso de Argentina a la final de la Copa del Mundo, usaron 21 jugadores de su escuadrón de 22 hombres. Solo Edmundo Piaggio de Lanus no fue utilizado. Ni una sola vez usaron la misma alineación de equipo en sus cinco partidos. La pérdida de forma, problemas psicológicos, lesiones y amenazas de muerte determinaron la selección del equipo.

2. Hubo cinco entrenadores nacidos en el extranjero en la Copa Mundial de 1930: el húngaro Gyorgy Orth dirigió a Chile. El español con sangre gitana, Juan Luque de Serrallonga lideró a los mexicanos. El mestizo argentino José Durán Laguna estuvo a cargo de los paraguayos. Los peruanos tenían al español Francisco Bru al timón mientras que el escocés Robert Millar estaba a cargo de los Estados Unidos. Tres de los cinco habían entrenado previamente en los países, mientras que a Orth y Bru se les habían ofrecido contratos para venir a Chile y Perú.

3. El defensor mexicano Manuel Rosas se convirtió en el primer futbolista en la historia de la Copa del Mundo en marcar un gol en propia meta cuando se adelantó a su propio arquero en la derrota por 3-0 de su equipo ante Chile (16 de julio).

4. Carlos Adolfo Schneeberger Lemp, conocido como 'El Gringo' y también 'Montón de letras', fue el capitán de Chile. Nacido de inmigrantes suizos, su apellido es de origen habitual. "Nieve" significa nieve y "berger" que se traduce en berg o montaña.

5. El jugador de Vasco da Gama, Paschoal, anunció en junio de 1930 que se retiraría del equipo de la Copa Mundial de Brasil. Preocupado por perder el sueldo de su empleador, anunció: "No puedo dejar que mi familia sufra el martirio del hambre".

Match Report - Chile vs Mexico (English translation from El Sol)

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This is an English translation of the report of the Chile vs Mexico match that was played on the 16 July and appeared in the Spanish newspaper, El Sol, on the 17 July 1930 via the news-agency Associated Press. The first cable-gram reached the offices of the paper at 10 pm of the 16th and contained a mere twenty-seven words and providing the most basic of information. One hour later a more extensive report was dispatched to the Spanish daily.

Google was used to translate this report and is subject to imperfections. Spanish speakers are welcome to offer their opinions to help better translate this document where the original report can be read here.

Caution should be taken when excepting the details in this account even if it is written by an anonymous eyewitness. For example, this report states that Subiabre scored the first two goals with Vidal netting the third. Most Chilean sources list Vidal as scoring the first and third, while the second was an own goal.

El Sol, 17 July 1930

1930- @miseleccionmx vs Chile.#HechoEnMéxico pic.twitter.com/Z6BItvNPvA

— History Liga MX (@History_LigaMX) March 24, 2017

MONTEVIDEO 16 (10 n.) .- In the qualifying match for the world championship, played this afternoon between the national teams of Chile and Mexico, the Chileans won by three goals against zero.
(Associated Press.)

World Cup 1930 referees #4 @RefereeingBooks Belgian ref Henri Christophe presides over the exchange of pennants between the captains of Mexico, Guittierez @DTdelTri & Chile, Carlos Schneeberger, before the CHI @LaRoja v MEX @FMF game (16.07.1930) @FIFAWorldCup #WC1930 @Uruguay pic.twitter.com/eNLmwfjX50

— worldcup1930project (@WC1930blogger) December 15, 2017

MONTEVIDEO 16 (11 n.). -The game played this afternoon by the national teams of Chile and Mexico has attracted little public, despite the great interest that aroused the performance of the Chilean players. This expectation for the game that the team from Chile would develop was due to the mystery that his training had been surrounded and to the belief that he would be a serious rival of the Argentine side in the final match of his series.

México – Chile en Uruguay 1930 https://t.co/xxvC4saYJN pic.twitter.com/Dd56E4kUzK

— Antonio Ortega Masot (@HistoriadFutbol) March 6, 2017

Four minutes into the match, the Chilean player Subriabre scored the first goal for his team. This seemed a check of the forecasts that were made before starting; but soon after the Chileans were confused by the impetuous offensive developed by the Mexicans. After a few minutes, managed to calm down, and managed to take the game to the Mexican field, but without gaining any advantage, mainly because each Chilean striker tried to score, regardless of whether his placement was favorable or not to get it. Both teams committed frequent fouls, which the referee did not punish. The game continued developing very moved, with superiority of the Chileans, although these showed signs of having little technique. The first half ends with the score of one to zero in favor of the Chilean team.

El primer gol de Chile en un mundial lo marcó Carlos "Zorro" Vidal, un 16 de julio de 1930. https://t.co/GtwZjpaChn pic.twitter.com/5DjeCwUSDv

— Historias del Fútbol (@Hdfchile) September 1, 2016

The second half started with several attacks by the Mexican players, which did not score any both the indecision in the shots and the low precision of his shots. A few minutes into the game the Chilean Subriabe scored again. From this moment the game became violent, and the Mexicans threatened the goal of their opponents because of the advanced position in which the Chilean defense was placed. After twenty minutes, Vidal scored the third goal for the Chileans. They continued to dominate these, although both their performance and that of their rivals is not very lucid. The Chilean Elgueta had to retire from the field to be injured. The referee reprimanded several players for playing hard; but he stopped punishing ruinous faults. The match ended with the victory of the Chileans by three goals to zero. (Associated Press.)

Soccernostalgia Podcast Part 1 - Mexico, Bolivia & Belgium

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This is part one of a three-part podcast I did with Shahan Petrossian from the Soccernostalgia blog on the subject of the first World Cup. In order to make this interview as different as possible from the podcast with the Yesteryear Footy Pod, we had agreed upon a different format where we discuss each of the individual teams in the order in which they finished in the rankings i.e. from 13th to 1st. This would me allow to include topics not discussed in the previous aforementioned podcast. In part one we discuss Mexico, Bolivia and Belgium.

Summary

Beginning with Mexico we discuss the teams' long travel itinerary, anecdotal evidence with regard to the limited education of some of the players and their training regime on board the SS Munargo. Other items include the low expectations of this very young team and of the motivating tactics of their coach Juan Luque Serralonga. There is also a brief focus of one of Mexico's star players, Juan Carreno, and his on and off the field antics. We then review Mexico's matches against France (which include the 1st World Cup goal); Chile (1st World Cup own goal) and Argentina, a game in which there are some discrepancies on how many penalties were actually awarded. 

Moving on to Bolivia we discuss the general lack of information that has been published on this team. And how only recently has new information come to light on their pre-World Cup preparations and journey to Montevideo which coincided with an ongoing coup in the Andean nation. We then take a closer look at Ulises Saucedo, the coach and World Cup referee and his possible connection to Arsenal. We then discuss the reasons why Bolivian players wore letters on their shirts which spelt out 'VIVA URUGUAY' before moving on to their matches against Yugoslavia and Brazil.

We then conclude with Belgium and their journey to Montevideo and how much of what we know comes from the accounts given by the Belgian ref, John Langenus and goalkeeper, Arnold Badjou. Despite their training regime on board the SS Conte Verde some of the players gained weight. We also look at Belgium's selection issues, especially with regard to their star man, Raymond Braine, and how this left them lacking in their attack and as we discuss their defeats against the United States and Paraguay, this affected their ability to be potent in front of goal. 

1930 World Cup Group 1 Chile - Mexico (Joefa's World Cup History)

This is a youtube video of Chile v Mexico by Joefa's World Cup History. This blogger helped provide photographic material for his project. Special thanks also to JC Blanc for providing material.
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Read a Match Report in Portuguese below:
A Batalha

16 July 1930 - (World Cup Group 1) Chile v Mexico (Match Report in A Batalha)

A Batalha, 17 July 1930

An article of the match report for the Chile versus Mexico from the Brazilian newspaper A Batalha, published on the 17 July 1930.