Uruguay World 1930: “Better to lose, if we do not all die here”

The world Cup it is full of curious stories and anecdotes. Since its first edition in Uruguay in the year 1930 have been 20 the world championships that have been held around the planet and have left us with an endless number of curiosities that we like to remember. This time we traveled to that Uruguay World to analyze the first end of the story.

The World Cup in Uruguay 1930, the first World Cup in history

The first thing we must say is that that, the first World Cup in history, It was an edition with little participation from European countries due to the distance that had to be traveled to the American country with a very long boat trip that was also very costly financially.. Finally there were four teams from the old continent who attended: France, Yugoslavia, Romania Y Belgium.

The big favorites were Uruguay Y Argentina who did not disappoint and planted themselves in that final after eliminating in the semifinals by two forceful 6-1 a Yugoslavia Y U.S. The meeting between both teams became more than just a soccer match.

to get started, according to the members of the albiceleste selection, They had trouble falling asleep since the Charrúa fans came to the hotel where they were staying to disturb almost every night, knowing from the beginning that the champion of that World Cup was going to decide between Uruguayans and Argentines.

The balls from the World Cup final 1930

The first dispute that arose in that final was with which ball the match should be played. At that time each team went to the appointment with their ball. In the end, the referee of the match decided to play the first part with a ball and the second part with the other. Solomonic decision.

break Argentina expired by 1-2 and he was better than his rival. But nevertheless, The albiceleste players were under great environmental pressure and, as account, in the locker room some of them felt real fear. It looks like, Paternoster he came to say to his companions: “We better lose or not get out of here alive”. Monti, another Argentine player, came to declare that: “None of us wanted to win that final for fear of dying”.

Anyway, in the second half Uruguay traced the scoreboard and achieved victory by 4-2 before the delirium of the public that went to Montevideo Centennial Stadium that 30 July 1930.