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)

Rafael Garza Gutiérrez ''Récord'' - Mexican Captain

Here are a series of Spanish language articles including access to his family tree about the career of legendary Mexican footballer Rafael Garza Gutiérrez, more commonly known as ''Récord''. A defender for Club America he was Mexico's captain at the 1930 World Cup.

''Récord'' shakes hands with Argentinian keeper and captain, Angel Bossio, before their World Cup match.

Family Tree

El otro lado del balón Magazine, October 11, 2012  

Son los campeones americanos que a Record tienen por capitan.. (Fibra America 60 Aniversario)

Rafael Garza Gutiérrez, el padre de la historia

A four page article from the archives from Club America:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4

Watch a short video about ''Récord'' at deportes.televisa.com

Tantos mundiales, tantas historias - By Alfredo Relaño (Book plus video)

This is a Spanish language book by author Alfredo Relaño. Tantos mundiales, tantas historias contains thirteen pages on the first World Cup in 1930. You can read it on issuu or google books. Below is a video where the author speaks on film (in Spanish) about the tournament in Uruguay.

Guillermo Stabile on Film

Guillermo Stabile was born on the 17th January 1905 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1920 he joined CA Huracan and would go onto to win two league titles in 1925 and 1928. His 1928 league title was accompanied by 28 league goals. 

In 1930 he was selected for the Argentinian squad for the first World Cup in Uruguay but was not expected to play. He got his opportunity in Argentina's second match against Mexico when Roberto Cherro had been ruled out due to a nervous disposition after their controversial opening match against France and when Cherro's replacement as striker, Manuel Ferreira, the Argentinian captain, had to return to Buenos Aires to sit a law exam. And thus history was made. 

He scored a hat-trick against the Mexicans, twice against Chile and the United States and once in the final against Uruguay. He would finish the tournament as the leading scorer with eight goals. His four matches in the World Cup represented his entire international career for his country as a player.
After the World Cup, he went to play in Italy for Genoa and briefly for Napoli. In 1936 he moved to Paris to act as player-coach for Red Star Olympique. He would return to Argentina to coach several clubs as well as the national team where he won six Copa America titles for his country in 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955 and 1957.

In 1948, he made a cameo role in the successful Argentinian football film Pelota de Trapo. Below you can watch the film its entirety.

His appearance comes around the 54:10 mark and is on the right of the scene of the two characters in conversation.

The video below shows the Argentinian team arriving back to Argentina in 1951 after playing in England and Stabile exits the plane around the 33-second mark.

On the 26th December 1966, the Argentinian legend passed away. He was 61 years old. Below is footage of his funeral.

                                     

Suggested further reading:

These Football Times (English)

Storie di Calcio (Italian)

El Grafico (Spanish)

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

The Road to the First World Cup - Part 3 (Joefa's World Cup History) Republished

This is part 3 of Joefa's Road to the First World Cup and is 43 minutes long. The first nine minutes contains film footage of the Barcelona Exposition in 1929 where FIFA held its 18th Congress to decide on the host for the first World Cup before going into further detail on how Uruguay was awarded the World Cup. It also contains information on the countries who accepted the invitation as well as their travelling schedule. Go check out his youtube channel and subscribe.

Republished after disappearing off Youtube.

The Road to the First World Cup - Part 2 (Joefa's World Cup History) Republished

This is part two of Joefa's Road to the First World Cup and is some 93 minutes long. It is essentially footage of the football matches of the 1928 Olympic football tournament in Amsterdam where Uruguay secured their second gold medal victory. Go check out his youtube channel and subscribe.

Republished after the video disappeared off Youtube.

1930 World Cup Final Uruguay vs Argentina (Match Report in La Voz)

This match report was published in the Spanish newspaper La Voz, on 31st July 1930, on page 7. Below are links to two videos on the FIFA website which contains footage of the final.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/videos/y=2009/m=7/video=1930-fifa-world-cup-uruguaytm-1083334.html

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/videos/y=2007/m=5/video=1930-fifa-world-cup-uruguay-515950.html

1930 World Cup Semi-Final Uruguay - Yugoslavia (Joefa's World Cup History)

A youtube video from Joefa's World Cup History of the second semi-final between Uruguay and Yugoslavia, Please subscribe, like and share his channel.

A match report from Spain's El Sol, 28 July 1930, p6.

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

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

This is a youtube video of Argentina v Chile 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 Match Reports in Spanish and Portuguese below:
La Nacion
A Batalha

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

This is a youtube video of Uruguay v Romania 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 4 Paraguay - Belgium (Joefa's World Cup History)

This is a youtube video of Paraguay v Belgium 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 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 1 Argentina - Mexico (Joefa's World Cup History)

This is a youtube video of Argentina 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 Spanish below:
La Nacion

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

This is a youtube video of Chile v France 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 Centenario Stadium Inauguration Ceremony (Joefa's World Cup History)

This is a youtube video of the inauguration ceremony of the Centenario Stadium 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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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

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

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

This is a youtube video of Yugoslavia 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 two Match Reports below (one in Spanish, one in Portuguese):
El Sol
A Batalha