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The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. FIFA, football's international governing body, selected Uruguay as the host nation, as the country would be celebrating the centenary of its first constitution and the Uruguay national football team had retained their football ...
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 1930 [9] France Football's World Cup Top-100 1930–1990, 56th: 1994 [10] IFFHS South American Footballer of the Century, 26th: 1999 [11] World Soccer's 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time, 75th: 1999 [12] RSSSF Uruguay All-Time Team: 1999 [13] Copa América Historical Dream Team: 2011; IFFHS Uruguayan Men's Dream ...
1930 Uruguay *Club domestic league appearances and goals Victoriano Santos Iriarte (2 November 1902 – 10 November 1968), nicknamed "El Canario" (The Canary ), was a Uruguayan football forward , member of the Uruguay national team that won the first-ever World Cup in 1930 , and of Racing Club de Montevideo at the club level.
The stadium was one of the venues of the first FIFA World Cup held in 1930, and site of the first goal in World Cup history, scored by France's player Lucien Laurent against Mexico. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The match was one of the two games that opened the World Cup, the other being held at the same time in Estadio Gran Parque Central .
Andrade was a guest at the 1950 FIFA World Cup when Uruguay won their second world championship. His nephew Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, a member of the 1950 team, had adopted Andrade as his second surname in honour of Andrade. In 1956 German journalist Fritz Hack searched Montevideo for Andrade for six days.
The 1930 FIFA World Cup final was a football tournament match that culminated in the inaugural 1930 FIFA World Cup champions. Uruguay and Argentina contested in what was a rematch of the gold medal match of the 1928 Olympics, which Uruguay won after a replay. The final was played at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 30 July, a ...
Uruguay hosted and won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930, beating Argentina 4–2 in the final. They won their second and last title in 1950 , upsetting host Brazil 2–1 in the final match . The team have qualified for fourteen World Cups, reaching the second round in ten, the semi-finals five times, and the final twice.
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