Showing posts with label USMNT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USMNT. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

BOOK PREVIEW: MUD, BLOOD & STUDS BY JAMES BROWN

[Note: Here, below, my good friend James Brown provides a synopsis of his newly published book, Mud, Blood and Studs, One Family's Legacy in Soccer and Rugby Across Three Continents. Primarily a story about his grandfather and fathers footballing legacy its much more than that. Its an ode to an extraordinary family of sporting talent.

I've been collaborating with James for a few years now and he gives me some credit in helping him with his research for his book, specifically around the 1930 US team but its perhaps more credit than I deserve but thats James for you, very kind and humble and one of the most generous people I have ever met. - Dean Lockyer, World Cup 1930 Project]


 

 

I embarked on this adventure some 6 long years ago. At year 5, I met my good friend Dean, and he was already deep entrenched by the mystique of the 1930 World Cup since years. I was eager to find out about the careers that I grew up hearing stories about. I needed to see photos, articles, programmes. Whatever I could. I had just jumped in with both feet, searching worldwide everywhere I could to find out information on every member of my sporting family over 3 different generations of football and rugby players: libraries in Bayonne and Plainfield, New Jersey; online archives & British Newspaper sources; English & Scottish Premiership & other league clubs like Plainfield Soccer Club, Bayonne Rovers, Newark Skeeters, NY Giants, Brooklyn Wanderers, Newark Americans, Newark City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Brentford, Guildford City, Clyde, Ipswich Town, Glenburn Rovers, Shawfield, Clyde, Hibernian, Dundee, Dreghorn Juniors, Kilmarnock, Troon Athletic, Partick Thistle, Chester, Swindon Town, Lovell's Athletic, Distillery (N. Ireland) and national junior and senior team sides in the United States, England and Scotland. Then over to the rugby side of the Brown and Lambie families with Jonsson College Rovers, West of Scotland, Natal, Sharks, Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Rugby Football Club, Sharks, Racing 92, Gala, Western Province, Marr College FP, Glasgow District, England, Scotland, South Africa Springboks, British and Irish Lions…That’s an extensive and proud list. 


6 years-worth - a mountain of research articles, documents, photos, books, etc. 

Family letters, photos and albums, interviews, memories and recollections were essential to collect, arrange and weave into this story that I spent 6 fantastic years working on. Along the way, I’ve made wonderful friendships throughout the world on all continents with soccer geeks, kindred spirit,  passionate men and women for all walks of life – but all linked to association foot-ball, soccer, football, etc – to The Beautiful Game. While I went on a search for any online references or through collections, online sales – I stumbled upon a podcast where a roundtable was taking place, talking about early US soccer and that’s when I first heard Tom McCabe and David Kilpatrick, both professors at the time in the NY/NJ area. David was talking about players’ rights and that he had a paper somewhere in his neatly organized mess of an office! And that is was about the NY Giants in 1930 having gone on strike because of pay concerns and that a young lad by the name of James Brown was the only player on the team who didn’t agree with the settled amount.  

To learn more about America’s rich soccer history, go to The Society for American Soccer History


I quickly made contact with both of them and from there, learned more about The Society for American Soccer History (S.A.S.H) and their efforts to revitalize, correct, do more research and help to educate those who wanted to know about US soccer’s rich history dating back to the 1880s. The other major reason for diving into US soccer history was coming across SASH member, Zach Bigalke’s PhD thesis called, “Anything but Ringers”, a deep analysis about the soccer lanscape in the 1920s building up to the 1930 World Cup and the US Men’s National Team with my grandfather being one of those players. The thought was that since the US was not a big player on the recent international stage (2 dismal showing at the Olympic Games 1924 and 1928) and not getting out of the pool rounds. Their run in the 1930 World Cup that got them out of the pool stage at the top of the table with 2 cleansheet wins against Belgium and Paraguay to the semis and ending with a crushing, unjust loss to Argentina, was acccentuated with suspicions because of USMNT’s drastic change in performance and british accents. Hence, federations and reporters thought the US bought their way to 3rd place, when in fact, the US players with Scottish and English origins had actually lived in the US since their teens, with my grandfather being the last immigrant to join the team when he moved to the US in 1927. Their accents always remained. You can take a man out of Scotland but you can never take Scotland out of the man!   

I must confess that once soccer moved into color from a photography perspective, I kind of stopped being interested, so from 1960 onwards! My main focus is from 1920s to the end of the 1950s. It was a period where sandlots were the main recruiting terraces and strong waves of immigration helped bolster leagues, especially on the East Coast. Balls were made of heavy leather and laced up causing a bump and often inflicting damage when heading, even-more-so when it rained the ball became a medicine ball waiting to send you to the emergency room or asylum for an early retirement – just ask Wee Willie! Boots were tough, heavy and felt like today’s security steel-toed boots.  You had to be tough, determined and ready to win at all costs back then. With S.A.S.H, I find so much joy in helping individuals or historical soccer societies find out more about their past players or relatives who played in the 1920s, ‘30s, etc or journalists who need some help gathering more info for a story.  

I’ve worked with people from North and South America to EU (Western & Eastern Europe), UK, South Africa and North Africa I’ve found my stride in researching backgrounds of players and I get such a rush from unraveling that little bit of info, photo etc that completes the puzzle of one’s career back in the day. Roger Alaway, the foremost US soccer historian recently referred to me as the Sherlock Holmes of Soccer! That’s a compliment that I can run with and I feel so fortunate to have kindred spirit in the soccer history world. Dean does some of the most in-depth analysis of the 1930 World Cup overall, and I’m astounded by what he finds and posts every week on Twitter and on his blog. I owe so much of what I know today because of him and it’s great to collaborate with him.  Whenever I send him an email with an item or tidbit I’ve come across, I always start off saying “you probably already have this…” and 9 times out of 10 he already had it!  


James with son, Aidan, in Paris, 2019


So, what started off as a pure family tree set of papers that I wanted to assemble for my son, Aidan so that he knew where he came from, from a sporting perspective, turned into something bigger, better and gave me a new focus in life. He now has a definitive look at the paternal side of the Brown. Soccer has always been in my blood and I’m just so happy to be able to share my love for the the Beautiful Game with you all and collaborate, exchange ideas and help resolve those mysteries from early periods of soccer. The main challenge in the US is finding family’s of former players to see what was passed down; see the state of preservation and help the family understand what their options are for the collection and then organize with museums, private collectors, universities, etc. 

In any event, I look forward working on 2 more books about the USMNT for 2026 and am so happy to be able to give back to a sport that I cherish so! 


You can buy the book in hardcover or Ebook - Kindle - through the following distribution points

UK – delivery already started since Sept. 1

https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/mud-blood-and-studs


North & South America – Amazon.com (Delivery starts Dec. 1, 2022) 

Amazon.com


If you need any research help about soccer teams, clubs, players, federations – don’t hesitate to contact me on Twitter @ 1930WorldCup or by email at robyburns@hotmail.com. Of course, Dean is always keen as well digging for 1930 World Cup research, especially when relatives of players from that World Cup contact us. 




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Saturday, 12 December 2020

Five Facts You May Not Know About the 1930 World Cup - Part 7

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1. The French Football Federation defined the features of the insurance covering the delegates and the players travelling to the 1930 World Cup. It was decided that for the players and the officials who are married, the payment in the event of death will be increased to 100,000 francs. The daily allocation for all will be 30 francs, and the amount of the bonus will be 350 francs per person.

2. The Mexican press questioned the selection process of the 'National' team since all players were from the Capital but it was practical for these amateur players with their training camp at Parque Necaxa. All players arose at 6 am, trained till 8:30 followed by breakfast before leaving for their day jobs. Returned to camp at 5pm for lectures. Had dinner at 8pm before retiring to bed. 


3. US team manager W.R. Cummings, former Secretary to Robert Lincoln, son of Abe, described the field at Parque Central as '... being a bed of wet sticky clay with pools of water too numerous to count.' The US team strategy of using long wing passes was most effective in their opening day 3-0 victory over the short passing tactics of Belgium.


4. Brazilian forward Preguinho scored the first header in World Cup history in his nation's 2-1 defeat to Yugoslavia on 14th July 1930.

CORRECTION: After further discussion it was Bert Patenaude who scored the 1st headed goal in World Cup history (13 July) vs Belgium in the 89th minute in their 3-0 victory & not Preguinho (14 July, vs Yugoslavia.) Source: La Prensa (14/7/30)


5. Two Canillitas (newspaper vendors), both disabled, made a great sacrifice to watch Argentina play Uruguay in the World Cup Final. Alfonso Lloner and Antonio Pizzano left their home city of Rosario for Sante Fe where they crossed the river by raft to Parana. They made their way to Concordia and crossed Uruguay by train via Salto, Paysandu, Fray Bentos before finally arriving in Montevideo. 

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Monday, 22 June 2020

United States and Mexico: The Journey To The 1930 World Cup

Twitter: @WC1930blogger

 James Brown @1930WorldCup, vice-president of SASH @USSoccerHistory and grandson of Jim Brown, a member of the 1930 US team, describes the journey of the US and Mexico to the first World Cup in Uruguay for the 1930 World Cup Conference @1930Cup.
Website: worldfootballconference.com

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Saturday, 10 August 2019

Podcast: USA at World Cup 1930

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 Check out this Outside Write podcast with my friend James Brown @1930WorldCup, as he discusses the US team at the 1930 World Cup and his own personal connection and journey in researching that historic team that finished third.

Podcast: USA at World Cup 1930


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Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Fall River's Greatest & The 1930 World Cup

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 When the United States team took part in the 1930 World Cup their squad contained two young players from Massachusetts club, Fall River Marksmen, Billy Gonsalves, and Bert Patenaude. They were instrumental in leading their country to the semi-final of the first ever World Cup. 

 Bert Patenaude made history when he scored the first ever hattrick in the World Cup against Paraguay on 17th July 1930. Billy Gonsalves is considered one of the greatest players in American soccer history. Recently, I wrote a collaborative piece about the pair and their emergence on the soccer scene with the Marksmen and the role they played on that US team that finished third in Uruguay. I did this with the help of James Brown @1930WorldCup, whose grandfather, Jim Brown, played on that same US team in Montevideo, and this article appears on the club website of the Fall River Marksmen. 

 Below you will find links to some of the sources used to write this piece entitled, Fall River's Greatest & The 1930 World Cup.






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Saturday, 31 March 2018

Match Reports: US vs Belgium & France vs Mexico (English translation from Heraldo de Madrid)


This is an English translation of the match reports that appeared in the Spanish newspaper, El Heraldo de Madrid, on 14th July 1930, from the Associated Press, the press agency from the United States. The authors of the article are anonymous but are most likely South American journalist working on behalf of the American company. You can read the original match report in Spanish here. I have used google translate for this document and therefore may not be perfect in its translation. I have tried to keep to this translation but where there may be confusion I have offered my own interpretation. 

El Heraldo de Madrid, 14 July 1930.

THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF FOOTBALL:


MONTEVIDEO 13.- In the match for the football world championship played yesterday afternoon in the Stadium of this capital, between the teams of France and Mexico, the first one won by four goals against one .-- Associated Press
MONTEVIDEO 13.-In the game played yesterday afternoon between the team of the United States and the team of Belgium for the world football championship the United States scored three goals against zero their opponents. Associated Press
MONTEVIDEO 14.-With attendance of numerous public have begun the eliminatory matches for the world soccer championship.
They play, in first term (game?), the American and Belgian teams, the first of which has developed magnificent game, winning by three to zero, and showing a greater knowledge of the technique than its opponents.
The Belgians played a very fast game, which was, however, counteracted by the Americans, who shot very well, excelling in both times the extreme (winger) and the right inside. The defenses of both squads were deficient and only the good game of the Belgian goalkeeper stood out.
In the first half the forces were leveled, but since the second half began the American team showed a great super quality, which justified its triumph from three to zero, also standing out in this time the extreme (winger) and the inside right. In this second part (half) the Americans scored the goals for the far left, Mac Ghee, in brilliant and fortunate plays, being very applauded.
He also played very well in this time the right half. In general the defenses of the teams were bad and the forwards played well, being observed in the course of the game that neither of the two teams knows how to finish the plays.
At the end of the match, the critics who attend the tournament and who attended the Amsterdam Olympiad said that the current Belgian team is much lower than the one that played in that in 1928.
It can be predicted that the Paraguayans, who with the Americans and the Belgians form the fourth group, will easily defeat these two opponents and will be classified as winners of the series, since they surpass both teams.


The game between Americans and Belgians was developed without incidents or brusqueness, and the audience was produced correctly. Twenty thousand spectators attended.
In another field the eliminatory match between France and Mexico was also played, which was developed with very little assistance from the public. It would not exceed four thousand the total number of spectators, as the fans preferred to witness the United States - Belgium meeting, which had aroused greater interest in the nature of the competitors.
Both the Mexicans and the French played with great enthusiasm, although without good technique, although the French team proved to be far superior to the Mexican and have greater knowledge of the game.
The French superiority was evidenced in the final score, which threw four goals in favor of the French for one on the Mexican scoreboard, despite having played the French team almost the entire game with only ten players, because the team goalkeeper was injured, Thelpot (Thepot), shortly after having started the game, being replaced by the left half, Chantrel.
In general the game lacked good plays, and at times was very violent, becoming denaturalized the character of the meeting by the fury with which both teams developed their game.
Both the French and the Mexicans proved to be technically very inferior to any South American international team, especially the Mexican team, which played a completely primitive game, acting with absolute lack of any organization, which they tried to replace with a waste of enthusiasm.
Of the Mexican team the only one that was good was the goalkeeper, Bonfiglio. For the rest, the team has no defenses or attack line. The French were equally weak in the defense, owing their triumph to the work of the strikers, who, although not very regular, were outstanding and brilliant compared to the Mexicans, and gave them the victory.
However, the extremes (wingers) stood out in the winning team.
Associated Press

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Monday, 23 January 2017

Andy Auld - From Child Soldier to World Cup Semi-Finalist (With a Split Lip)



The U.S. team that took part in the 1930 World Cup contained six players that were born in Britain. The Canadian historian Colin Jose has done much to dispel many of the misconceptions that have surrounded the team over the decades. He has written very detailed biographies of each players background and careers.

 The biography of Andy Auld, written by Jose for the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame, to be found on Wayback Machine, contains the information that in 1913 Auld joined the British Army. There is a discrepancy in the two accounts written above by Colin Jose with regard to his date of birth. One states he was born 26th January 1900 and the other 1901. That would suggest that the Scot would have been twelve or thirteen years old when he enlisted in the Army. As suspect as this claim may seem it is well documented that during World War One some 250,000 boys under the age of 18 joined the war effort. This became a very controversial subject in British Military history. The rules for enlistment, in place before the war, required all applicants to be eighteen years old to sign up and nineteen to serve overseas. All these young boys, keen to join the war effort, lied about their age and it appears the authorities were very reluctant to check proof of age. 

 This raises several questions with regard to Andy Auld. Is his approximate date of birth roughly correct or was he born a few years earlier? If he was born in 1900/01 then he would have clearly lied about his age. However, two other possibilities exist. Either the year of his enlistment is incorrect and it was a few years later or he never joined the Army at all?

 I was unable to obtain information regarding birth records for Andy Auld although his gravestone gives 1900 at his birth date. However, I was able to find the 1901 Scotland Census and the information contained therein possibly contradicts the 26th January 1900 birth date stated elsewhere. It states that a four-month-old Andrew Auld lived at Chemical Row with his parents Thomas and Mary, and six older siblings (two sisters and four brothers) ranging between twenty-three and three years old. Another reason to believe that he was born in 1901 is that according to outbound passenger lists, Andy Auld of Dynamite Road, Stevenston, ticket number 51909, aged 22, occupation Miner, departed from Glasgow on 22nd June 1923 on the Canadian Pacific steamship liner Metagama bound for Quebec, Montreal.  So it appears almost certain that in 1913 he was nowhere near the age of 18 and that if he did join the Army he certainly lied about his age.

 I was also unable to find enlistment records for the British Military to determine what birth date he provided but I was able to find four different Andrew Auld's that served in British Armed Forces during this period. All four records, dated 1919, pertain to ''individuals entitled to the Victory Medal and/or British War Medal granted under Army Orders''. The four Andrew Auld's are listed by their regiment or corps and are thus as follows: Royal Garrison Artillery, R.F.A (listed as a Gunner), Royal Irish Rifles and the Seaforth Highlanders. The last one I believe to be most likely the Andy Auld we are looking for. So it would appear that Andy Auld did serve in the British Military as a child soldier and left a war hero.

 According to Colin Jose, when Auld arrived in the United States he was able to sign professionally for Providence and between 1926 and 1930 he earned five caps for the U.S. national team. During the 1930 World Cup, he played in all three of the U.S. teams matches including the semi-final against Argentina. It was against the South Americans that he had his lip ripped wide open by an opponent.

 Proud of his Scottish roots, Andy Auld passed away in 1977, his gravestone engraved with two thistles either side of his name.

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Sunday, 15 January 2017

''The year America won through to the semi-finals'' - Glasgow Herald, 2 June 1982 (Google newspapers)


This is an article from the Glasgow Herald, 2 June 1982, p7 (click on title), from google newspapers about the US teams journey to the World Cup semi-finals in the first World Cup and is based on the World Cup report written by the US team manager Wilfred R. Cummings that was submitted to the United States Football Association (USFA) in 1931.
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Thursday, 29 December 2016

1930 World Cup Semi-Final Argentina - USA (Joefa's World Cup History)


A youtube video from Joefa's World Cup History of the Semi-final match between Argentina and USA. Please go and subscribe, like and share.

Match Report from Brazil's A Batalha, 26 July 1930, p5.



Match report from Spain's El Heraldo de Madrid, 28 July 1930, p9



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Saturday, 24 December 2016

1930 World Cup Group 4 USA - Paraguay (Joefa's World Cup History)


This is a youtube video of USA v Paraguay 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 two Match Reports, in Spanish and Portuguese below:
El Sol
A Batalha

Further reading;


Bert Patenaude and the First World Cup Hat-trick


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Sunday, 29 May 2016

17 July 1930 - (World Cup Group 4) USA v Paraguay (Match Report in El Sol)

El Sol, 18 July 1930
The USA versus Paraguay match report (played on the 17th July) published in the Spanish language Madrid based newspaper El Sol on the 18th July 1930.
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Saturday, 28 May 2016

17 July 1930 - (World Cup Group 4) USA v Paraguay (Match Report in A Batalha)

A Batalha, 18 July 1930
This article is the match report for the USA v Paraguay game played on the 17 July 1930 and published in the 18th July edition of Brazilian newspaper A Batalha.
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13 July 1930 - (World Cup Group 1) France v Mexico; (World Cup Group 4) USA v Belgium (Match Reports in El Heraldo de Madrid)




This is an article from the Spanish newspaper El Heraldo de Madrid, published on the 14 July 1930, and contains the match reports for USA v Belgium and France v Mexico, chronicled by the news agency, Associated Press.
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Friday, 27 May 2016

USA v Belgium 3-0 Match Report in Brazilian newspaper A Batalha (World Cup 1930)

A Batalha, 15 July 1930, p7

This is a match report of the USA v Belgium game played on the 13 July 1930 and published in the Brazilian newspaper A Batalha. See France v Mexico report.

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Saturday, 26 September 2015

1930 World Cup Newspapers and Magazines

Argentina's La Prensa reports the United States 3-0 victory over Paraguay. 18 July 1930
Argentina's La Nacion reports on the World Cup final, 31 July 1930
Belgrade newspaper reports on Yugoslavia's 2-1 victory against Brazil, Politika, 15 July 1930


Scenes from the World Cup, La Revista, Ano II, Number 83

A Noite, July 1930







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Podcast and Radio interviews with the sons of James Brown (United States) and Adelbert Steiner (Romania)


James Brown

Below is a link to a podcast that has an interview with the son of James Brown, who relates his father's story in the World Cup. George Brown is interviewed around the 8 minute 40 second mark.

http://www.howlermagazine.com/world-cup-dummy-july-1/

Below is an article about James Brown:

http://www.unitedinthestates.com/featured/james-brown-living-in-america/



Adelbert Steiner
Below is a link to a Romanian language radio interview with the sons of Adelbert Steiner, who retell the story of their father's experience at the 1930 World Cup:

http://radiotimisoara.ro/2015/07/05/audio-conte-verde-transatlanticul-cu-teren-de-fotbal-si-calugarite-catolice/


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Friday, 4 September 2015

Bert Patenaude and the First World Cup Hat-trick - Part Two

I have always wondered why it took so long for Bert Patenaude to be credited with the first World Cup hat-trick, and for further background information please see the first article I wrote below in the link provided.

The question for me was why didn't the governing body of soccer in the United States petition Fifa to give Patenaude recognition, after all they had the Official report written by the US team manager Wilfred Cummings, who was present and witnessed the event and recorded it as it happened?

And why did it take Fifa 86 years to give Patenaude credit?

Part of the reason may lie in the fact the United States Football Association (USFA) lost the official record (Cummings report) when they moved their headquarters ''from their humble beginnings - a room above the Cornish Arms, an ex-patriart bar in downtown New York...'' to the Empire State building (Glasgow Herald, 2 June 1982) . However, that report would resurface via Mrs Meg Auld, the widow of Andy Auld, who was part of the US team, in 1982 when she gave the copy to the soccer governing body.

Also, knowledge of Patenaude's hat-trick had been published in print, some four years earlier in a book  titled All About Soccer by Jared Lebow (see link below) On page 53 of the book published in 1978, he notes that Patenaude scored all three goals against Paraguay.

And then in 1990 the Los Angeles Times (14 June 1990) wrote an article which recorded the American forwards three goal accomplishment after it interviewed Patenaude's team-mates, Arnie Oliver and and James Brown, as the United States were preparing to play in their first World Cup in forty years in Italy.

It would take the research of historian and journalist, Colin Jose, to pick up the baton and send his evidence to Fifa in April 1995. Why it would take Fifa another eleven years for its ''external'' specialists to finally give acknowledgement is rather baffling.

My previous article on Patenaude, had shown that there was more evidence to support the claim to the first World Cup hat-trick and recently I have found another article in a Brazilian newspaper, Diario Nacional, that adds even more weight, making it five contemporary newspaper reports that recorded the US strikers achievement.

Diario Nacional, 18 July 1930.





The first article on Bert Patenaude.
http://worldcup1930project.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/bert-patenaude-and-first-world-cup-hat.html

All About Soccer by Jared Lebow
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gjRLurbI6oMC&q=bert+patenaude+usa+hattrick&dq=bert+patenaude+usa+hattrick&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBTgKahUKEwiL0f2-h9zHAhWtF9sKHQKAC78
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015

The United States' 1930 Post-World Cup friendly against Brazil - Part Three

O Jornal, 16 August 1930

The article above from O Jornal, 16 August 1930, refers to the Americans as ''the best and most perfect foreign team'' to have visited Rio. It explained how the Argentine press considered the US team as one of the best teams in the World Championship after the finalist. It makes reference to Montevideo newspaper El Plata, which stated that their performances justified the positive opinion of the Uruguayan public. They demonstrated a ''uniformity in its technical standard'' and their ability to work well as a team without even noting the individual performances. The article noted that the team suffered injuries in their heavy defeat to Argentina.

Brazilian goalkeeper, Joel (pictured) Diario de Noticias, 16 August 1930
Diario de Noticias published an extract from the July 18th edition of Argentina's La Nacion, which described the Americans as a ''powerful and vigorous team'', that are ''strong in all their lines and overwhelming in their attack. No one stays with the ball more than the time required''. They only dribble with the ball and show their individual skill when there is no team-mate available to pass to. They move the ball well ''if not with beauty, at least in conjunction with harmony and precision''. The attackers move forward together and passes out wide and ''formidable shots'' are common. ''Their solid defense is characterized by the uniformity of values that pleases the observer.,'' concluded the article.


Critica, 17 August 1930
This is an interview with the Brazilian player, Hermogenes, who had watched the United States beat Paraguay 3-0. He told Critica, that he thought the American style of play ''admirable'', and that they are ''clear, fair, intelligent'', He said they are fighters, ''robust, fiery, passionate'' with  ''a discipline almost unbreakable.'' ''In the heat of battle,'' he said ''they act calmly,'' with a technical efficiency. The Americans shoot '' very well, with violence and direction,'' and that their left winger, above all, has a terrifying shot, very powerful, a kind of cannon shot.'' Its believed he is referring to Bart MacGhee. He described their defence as ''solid'', ''agile'' and ''stunning''. 

 Finally, he told Critica, he was unwilling to make any predictions on the outcome of the match.





Critica, 17 August 1930



Critica also interviewed the Vasco da Gama defender, Italia, on his thoughts on the match. Even though he had watched them in Montevideo, he believed it wasn't enough for him to make a fair judgement on the US team. All that he knew was that they were a powerful team.

He told Critica that ''the battle today will be exciting'', and that it was a ''gathering of titans''. He wasn't perturbed by the prospect of the fight because he liked the ''fight and so in the fight, I am happy.''

Finally, he told Critica, ''One thing I can guarantee: I will be a tireless soldier for Brazil, [with] extreme dedication. I will work with love, faith and decision.''

Correio da Manha, 17 August 1930

From top to bottom: Frank Vaughn, Alex Wood, Andy Auld and trainer Bob Millar, Correio da Manha, 17 August 1930
Diario da Noticias, 17 August 1930

Diario de Noticias, 17 August 1930

Diario de Noticias, 17 August 1930






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