World Cup 1930 - Overview

This overview is to help facilitate the navigation of this blog. Below you will find the match schedule and results of the all the 1930 World Cup games, with links to other blog posts that contain original match reports from newspapers from the period. Also added are links from this site that relate to the individual matches. This overview will be continually updated as I review all previous post and designate them appropriately to the relevant categories as well as all new post and articles in the future. 

Twitter: @WC1930blogger

General Reviews
The Road to the First World Cup by Joe Faerstein.

Podcasts & Radio:
''Mundial 1930, La Fiesta De Ellos'' - by Carlos Polimeni (Audio)

Como se organizó el mundial de 1930? Fútbol y Política

FIRST ROUND

Group 1
Argentina, Chile, France, Mexico

13 July 1930 - Estadio Pocitos
France - Mexico 4-1 
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football; 
Newspaper Match Reports: Le Journal (France); El Siglo de Torrean; El Informador (Mexico); El Heraldo de Madrid (Spain) Read an English translation here; A Batalha (Brazil)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History); Video (Lucien Laurent, the first World Cup goal scorer interviewed by Gary Lineker); Video (Two interviews with Lucien Laurent, including Oscar Bonfiglio).

15 July 1930 - Estadio Parque Central
Argentina - France 1-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football; 
Newspaper Match Reports: El Heraldo de Madrid (Spain) English translation
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

16 July 1930 - Estadio Parque Central
Chile - Mexico 3-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA;
Newspaper Match Reports: A Batalha (Brazil); English translation from El Sol.
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

19 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario
Chile - France 1-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football;
Newspaper Match Reports: La Nacion (Spain)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

19 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario
Argentina - Mexico 6-3
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA;
Newspaper Match Reports: La Nacion (Spain); El Informador (Mexico)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History); Guillermo Stabile on Film

22 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario
Argentina - Chile 3-1
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA;
Newspaper Match Reports: La Nacion (Spain); A Batalha (Brazil)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

Group 2
Brazil, Yugoslavia, Bolivia

14 July 1930 - Estadio Parque Central
Yugoslavia - Brazil 2-1
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football;
Newspaper Match Reports: Pravda (Serbia/Yugoslavia); El Heraldo de Madrid (Spain) English translation; A Batalha (Brazil)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History); Yugoslavia's Aleksandar Tirnanic's goal versus Brazil (Montevideo vidimo se! - Official trailer); 

Brazilian Newspaper clippings (O Globo and O Estado do Sao Paulo)

17 July 1930 - Estadio Parque Central

Yugoslavia - Bolivia 4-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football;
Newspaper Match Reports: A Batalha (Brazil); El Sol (Spain) Read an English translation (El Sol)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History); Unlucky Bolivia or false history?

20 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario
Brazil-Bolivia 4-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA;
Newspaper Match Reports: La Nacion (Spain)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

Group 3
Uruguay, Romania, Peru

14 July 1930 - Estadio Pocitos
Romania - Peru 3-1
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football;
Newspaper Match Reports: El Heraldo de Madrid (Spain) English translation
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

18 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario
Uruguay - Peru 1-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA;
Newspaper Match Reports: El Herado de Madrid (Spain), English translation-El Heraldo de Madrid
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

21 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario
Uruguay - Romania 4-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football;
Newspaper Match Reports: El Heraldo de Madrid (Spain)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

Group 4
United States, Paraguay, Belgium

13 July 1930 - Estadio Parque Central
United States - Belgium 3-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football;
Newspaper Match Reports: El Heraldo de Madrid; English translation; A Batalha (Brazil)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

17 July 1930 - Estadio Parque Central

United States - Paraguay 3-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA;
Newspaper Match Reports: El Sol (Spain)(English translation-El Sol); A Batalha (Brazil)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History); 

Bert Patenaude and the First World Cup Hat-trick - Part Three (With links to Parts 1 & 2)

20 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario
Paraguay - Belgium 1-0
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football;
Newspaper Match Reports: La Nacion (Spain)
Other related materials:
Video (Joefa's World Cup History)

SEMI-FINALS

26 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario 
Argentina - United States 6-1
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA;
Newspaper Match Reports: A Batalha (Brazil) & El Heraldo de Madrid (Spain) plus video (Joefa's World Cup History)
Other related materials:

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

27 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario
Uruguay - Yugoslavia 6-1
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA; eu-football;
Newspaper Match Reports: El Sol (Spain) plus video (Joefa's World Cup History)
Other related materials:

FINAL
30 July 1930 - Estadio Centenario 
Uruguay - Argentina 4-2
Statistics and line-ups: FIFA;
Newspaper Match Reports: La Voz (Spain) plus links to videos on FIFA's website

Other related materials:
French and Swiss press coverage of the World Cup Final 1930
A Very Brief Review of the German Press Coverage of the 1930 World Cup

The Descendants - Oral Testimonies (Part-1)