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)

Yugoslavia's Aleksandar Tirnanic's goal versus Brazil (Montevideo vidimo se! - Official trailer)

This is a two-minute plus Official trailer for the film Montevideo vidimo se!, the sequel of Montevideo bog te video, the semi-fictional story of Yugoslavia's participation in the first World Cup in Uruguay. It contains a recreation of Tirnanic's goal against Brazil in their 2-1 victory. It is interesting to compare this with the diagram of the goal contained in the video in the link below that was published in Argentina's La Prensa the day after the match.

Yugoslavia vs Brazil

Seleccao Brasileira -90 Anos 1914-2004, Authors Antonio Carlos Napoleao, Roberto Assaf (Google Books)

This is a book on the Brazilian national team that is both a written and statistical history. Contained inside is a Portuguese language account of Brazil's participation in the first World Cup in 1930 as well as results and statistics of their two matches in the competition and their exhibitions against France, Yugoslavia and the United States. Click on the links below:

Seleccao Brasileira -90 Anos 1914-2004, Authors Antonio Carlos Napoleao, Roberto Assaf (link 1 - written account) (link 2- line-ups and statistics)

Brasil Copa 1930 (Album - Player bios)

This is from a flickr (click here) account that has several photostreams of albums of Brazil in the World Cups throughout the years that contains headshots and short player biographies. Published in Brazil in Portuguese.

1930 World Cup Group 2 Brazil - Bolivia (Joefa's World Cup History)

This is a youtube video of Brazil v Bolivia 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 Spanish below:
La Nacion

1930 World Cup Group 3 Uruguay - Peru (Joefa's World Cup History)

This is a youtube video of Uruguay v Peru 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 Spanish below:
El Heraldo de Madrid

1930 World Cup Group 2 Yugoslavia Brazil (Joefa's World Cup History)

This is a youtube video of Yugoslavia v Brazil by Joefa'a World Cup History. Go and subscribe to his channel for more videos of later World Cup matches with rare film footage and photos.

This blogger helped provide photographic material for his project. Special thanks also to JC Blanc for providing material.


Read a match report in Spanish below:



El Heraldo Madrid (Spain)

1930 World Cup Group 1 France - Mexico UPDATED (joefa's World Cup History)

This is an updated version of Joefa's original video with added material. It includes rarely seen photos such images of the first World Cup goal scored by Lucien Laurent along with goal diagrams.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNEmInqFbG1gElv-OMCG0w

This blogger helped provide photographic material for his project. Special thanks also to JC Blanc for providing material.


Here are match reports for France v Mexico written in Portuguese and Spanish;

A Batalha (Brazil)

El Heraldo de Madrid (Spain)

14 July 1930 - (World Cup Group 2) Yugoslavia v Brazil; (World Cup Group 3) Romania v Peru (Match Reports in El Heraldo de Madrid)

El Heraldo de Madrid, 15 July 1930

This article includes the match reports of the Yugoslavia versus Brazil (2-1) and Romania v Peru (3-1) games played on the same day, 14th July 1930, from the Spanish newspaper El Heraldo de Madrid.

Yugoslavia v Brazil (Match Report in A Batalha)

The front page of Brazilian newspaper, A Batalha, 15 July 1930.

This is the match report for the Yugoslavia versus Brazil game played on the 14th July 1930, recording the Brazilians shock 2-1 defeat to the Europeans. An interesting photograph that shows the multitude of Brazilian football fans gathering at the newspaper offices of the various Rio daily publications. Many of the newspapers would project speakers from their balconies informing the locals of up-to-date cablegrams coming in from Montevideo.

History of World Cups By José Eduardo de Carvalho (google books)

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=muMuBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT23&dq=john%20langenus&pg=PT10#v=onepage&q&f=false

This is a link to an interesting World Cup book and the chapter on the first World Cup in Uruguay has some interesting quotes from the Brazilian newspaper O Estado do Sao Paulo. (English language)

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.

France v Mexico 4-1 Match Report in Brazilian newspaper A Batalha (World Cup 1930)

A Batalha, 15 July 1930, p7

This is a match report of the France versus Mexico game played on the 13 July 1930, from the Rio de Janeiro newspaper A Batalha. The paper did not publish an edition on the 14th of July, so this report was published two days later.

World Cup Nostalgia (Orbis World Cup Collection)

These two pages are taken from the Orbis World Cup '90 Collection. I was around 11 years old when I bought this massive folder binder and it was the first time I read about the first World Cup. Limited in its scope it quenched my desire to learn more about the World Cup in Uruguay 1930. 

Lucien Laurent, the first World Cup goal scorer interviewed by Gary Lineker

This is a English and French language interview with Portuguese subtitles.

Brazilian Newspapers (O Globo and O Estado do Sao Paulo)

The O Globo front page has been previously published on this site but I've managed to find an enlarged version. It appeared on the day Brazil played Yugoslavia (14 July 1930). Below is also the report of Brazil's 2-1 defeat to their opponents published in O Estado do Sao Paulo (15 July 1930)

Brazilian Newspaper Articles (World Cup 1930)

These newspaper articles appeared on the internet sometime ago in a book entitled Colação Memória Do Brasil, and relate to Brazil's participation in the first World Cup. They are no longer available on the net.

These articles are dated from 30th and 31st May 1930, 12th and 13th June 1930 from O Globo.

Both of these articles are from Critica, 13th and 15th June 1930

These articles are from A Noite and O Globo, both 3 July 1930.

Both of these articles are from Critica, 10 July 1930 and 12 July 1930

Uruguai 1930, a primeira Copa da História - O primeiro gol da Seleção Brasileira (The story about Brazil's first World Cup goal by Preguinho)

Copa do Mundo 1930 - Participação da Sel Brasileira (Film includes interview with Brazilian player Araken Patusca)

A Seleção Brasileira na Copa do Mundo de 1930 (10 minute video)