🚀 Discover rich, widely-connected information.

1927 South American Championship

1927 football championship

Top 10 1927 South American Championship related articles
1 Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population of more than 9 million, Lima is the second largest city in the Americas, after São Paulo.More
2 Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river. At 1.28 million km2, Peru is the 19th largest country in the world, and the third largest in South America.More
3 Argentina national football team
The Argentina national football team represents Argentina in men's international football and is administered by the Argentine Football Association, the governing body for football in Argentina. Argentina's home stadium is Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti in Buenos Aires.More
4 Bolivia national football team
The Bolivia national football team, also known as La Verde, has represented Bolivia in international football since 1926. Organized by the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF), it is one of the 10 members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL).More
5 Peru national football team
The Peru national football team represents Peru in men's international football. The national team has been organised, since 1927, by the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF). The FPF constitutes one of the 10 members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). Peru has won the Copa América twice and qualified for FIFA World Cup finals five times ; it also participated in the 1936 Olympic football competition and has reached the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The team plays most of its home matches at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, the country's capital.More
6 Uruguay national football team
The Uruguay national football team represents Uruguay in international football, and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The current head coach is Óscar Tabárez. The Uruguayan team is commonly referred to as La Celeste.More
7 Brazil national football team
The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in men's international football and is administered by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the governing body for football in Brazil. They have been a member of FIFA since 1923 and a member of CONMEBOL since 1916.More
8 Chile national football team
The Chile national football team represents Chile in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile which was established in 1895. The team is commonly referred to as La Roja. Chile have appeared in nine World Cup tournaments and were hosts of the 1962 FIFA World Cup where they finished in third place, the highest position the country has ever achieved in the World Cup.More
9 Paraguay national football team
The Paraguay national football team represents Paraguay in men's international football competitions, and are controlled by the Paraguayan Football Association. Paraguay is a member of CONMEBOL. The Albirroja has qualified for eight FIFA World Cup competitions, with their best performance coming in 2010 when they reached the quarter-finals. A regular participant at the Copa América, Paraguay have been crowned champions of the competition on two occasions. Paraguay's highest FIFA World Rankings was 8th and their lowest was 103. Paraguay was awarded second place with Best Move of the Year in 1996 for their rise in the FIFA Rankings.More
10 Football at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Football was one of the tournaments at the 1928 Summer Olympics. It was won by Uruguay against Argentina, and was the last Olympic football tournament before the inception of the FIFA World Cup, which was held for the first time in 1930.More
1927 South American Championship
Tournament details
Host countryPeru
DatesOctober 30 – November 27
Teams4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Argentina (3rd title)
Runners-up  Uruguay
Third place  Peru
Fourth place  Bolivia
Tournament statistics
Matches played6
Goals scored37 (6.17 per match)
Top scorer(s) Alfredo Carricaberry
Roberto Figueroa
Segundo Luna
Pedro Petrone
Héctor Scarone
(3 goals each)
← 1926
1929 →

The eleventh edition of the South American Championship was held in Lima, Peru from October 30 to November 27, 1927. The participating countries were Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Uruguay. Brazil, Chile and Paraguay withdrew from the tournament. This was the first South American Championship in which Peru participated. The tournament was also used as a qualifier for the 1928 Summer Olympics and both Argentina and Uruguay were subsequently invited to enter that competition.[1]

The Argentina team departed from Retiro railway station to Chilean city Valparaíso, where they joined Uruguayan players to board a ship to the port of Callao, Lima. They arrived in Peru after eight days of trip.[2]

1927 South American Championship Intro articles: 5
1 Retiro railway station
Retiro Station is the name given to three railway termini located in the Retiro district of Buenos Aires: Retiro Mitre, Retiro Belgrano and Retiro San Martín. The stations are the termini of the Mitre, Belgrano and San Martín Railways respectively. It is near Retiro bus station, the largest bus terminal in the country.More
2 Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of 756,096 square kilometres (291,930 sq mi) and has a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. The capital and largest city is Santiago and the national language is Spanish.More
3 Valparaíso
Valparaíso is a major city, seaport, naval base and educational centre in the commune of Valparaíso, Chile. "Greater Valparaíso" is the second largest metropolitan area in the country. Valparaíso is located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) northwest of Santiago by road and is one of the South Pacific's most important seaports. Valparaíso is the capital of Chile's second most populated administrative region and has been the headquarters for the Chilean National Congress since 1990. Valparaíso has two state-owned and several private universities.More
4 Callao
Callao is a seaside city on the Pacific Ocean in the Lima metropolitan area. Callao is Peru's chief seaport and home to its main airport, Jorge Chávez International Airport. Callao municipality consists of the whole Callao Region, which is also coterminous with the Province of Callao. Founded in 1537 by the Spanish, the city has a long naval history as one of the main ports in Latin America and the Pacific, as it was one of vital Spanish towns during the colonial era. Central Callao is about 15 km (9.3 mi) west of the Historic Centre of Lima.More
5 Lima metropolitan area
The Lima Metropolitan Area, is an area formed by the conurbation of the Peruvian provinces of Lima and Callao. It is the largest of the metropolitan areas of Peru, the seventh largest in the Americas, the fourth largest in Latin America, and among the thirty largest in the world. The conurbation process started to be evident in the 1980s.More

Squads

For a complete list of participants squads see: 1927 South American Championship squads

Venues

Lima
Estadio Nacional
Capacity: 40,000

Final round

Each team played a single match against each of the other teams. Two (2) points were awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw and zero (0) points for a defeat.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Argentina 3 3 0 0 15 4 +11 6
 Uruguay 3 2 0 1 15 3 +12 4
 Peru 3 1 0 2 4 11 −7 2
 Bolivia 3 0 0 3 3 19 −16 0
Argentina  7–1  Bolivia
Luna  18', 56'
Carricaberry  20', 36'
Recanatini  24' (pen.)
Seoane  29', 79'		 Alborta  42'
Referee: Benjamín Fuentes (Peru)
Uruguay  4–0  Peru
Ulloa  49' (o.g.)
Sacco  52', 71'
Castro  75'
Referee: Consolato Nay Foino (Argentina)
Uruguay  9–0  Bolivia
Petrone  18', 65', 81'
Figueroa  19', 67', 69'
Arremón  43'
Castro  68'
Scarone  86'
Referee: Benjamín Fuentes (Peru)
Peru  3–2  Bolivia
Neyra  31'
Sarmiento  41'
Montellanos  43'		 Bustamante  13', 14'
Referee: Alberto Parodi (Chile)
Argentina  3–2  Uruguay
Recanatini  56' (pen.)
Luna  70'
Canavesi  85' (o.g.)		 Scarone  33', 79'
Referee: David Thurner (England)
Argentina  5–1  Peru
Ferreira  1', 30'
Maglio  22', 25'
Carricaberry  38'		 Villanueva  3'
Referee: Victorio Gariboni (Bolivia)

1927 South American Championship Squads articles: 21
1 Segundo Luna
Segundo Luna was an Argentinian footballer, born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. He was the first Santiagueño to play in Argentina's national football team as well as the first to play in an international tournament. Luna's team finished second in the Athletic Club Students Cultural Football League. He then joined the international football team in 1927, the year before the Olympics in Amsterdam. His first tournament was the 1927 South American Championship, in Lima, Peru, where Argentina qualified for the 1928 Olympics. The name 'Segundo Luna' means 'Second Moon' in Spanish.More
2 Alfredo Carricaberry
Alfredo Carricaberry, nicknamed Vasco, was an Argentine football player. Having spent most of his career at San Lorenzo de Almagro, where he won two titles in 1923 and 1924.More
3 Penalty kick (association football)
A penalty kick is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot on the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's goalkeeper. It is awarded when a foul punishable by a direct free kick is committed by a player in their own penalty area. The shot is taken from the penalty mark, which is 11 m from the goal line and centred between the touch lines.More
4 Manuel Seoane
Manuel Seoane, nicknamed La Chancha, was an Argentine football striker who played for Independiente and Argentina national team.More
5 Mario Alborta
Mario Mauricio Alborta Velasco was a Bolivian football forward.More
6 Estadio Nacional (1897)
The original Estadio Nacional del Perú, originally known as Estadio Guadalupe, was a stadium that existed from July 18, 1897 until 1951 when it began, on the same land, the construction of Peru's current National Stadium. From 1921 this place was called Sports National Stadium since it was established as the main sports arena for the practice of football in Peru.More
7 Antonio Sacco
Antonio Sacchi (1708–1788) was an Italian improvisational actor, renowned for his performance as the Commedia dell'arte stock character Truffaldino. Sacchi's lasting influence was in requesting playwright Carlo Goldoni to lay a dramatic structure to his improvised routines, with the resulting plays Truffaldino's 32 Mishaps (1738–40), Truffaldino's Son Lost and Found (1746), and the masterpiece A Servant of Two Masters (1745–53) being the best permanent record of what was an impromptu and momentary art form. Sacchi toured throughout Europe with his own Commedia troupe from 1738 to 1753, and both David Garrick and Casanova spoke highly of his talents.More
8 Héctor Castro
Héctor Castro was a Uruguayan football player and coach.More
9 Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation by area. The sovereign state is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.More
10 Pedro Petrone
Pedro Petrone Schiavone was a Uruguayan footballer who played in the role of striker. His nickname was Artillero, meaning artilleryman or gunner, in reference to his amazing goalscoring prowess.More
11 Roberto Figueroa
Roberto Figueroa was a Uruguayan footballer who played for the Uruguay national team. He was a member of the squad which won the gold medal in 1928 Olympics.More
12 Juan Arremón
Juan Pedro Arremón was a Uruguayan football player. He competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and played club football for Peñarol.More
13 Héctor Scarone
Héctor Pedro Scarone Beretta was a Uruguayan footballer who was considered as one of the best players in the world during his time.More
14 Demetrio Neyra
Demetrio Neyra was a Peruvian football forward who played for Peru in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Alianza Lima.More
15 Jorge Sarmiento
Jorge Sarmiento Koochoi was a Peruvian football forward who played for Peru in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Alianza Lima.More
16 Adhemar Canavesi
Adhemar Canavesi was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a defender. He was member of the Uruguayan team which won gold medal at the 1928 Olympics. After beginning his club career with Bella Vista, he moved to Peñarol in 1928.More
17 England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.More
18 Manuel Ferreira (footballer)
Manuel ("Nolo") Ferreira was an Argentine footballer who was a member of the Argentina national team.More
19 Juan Maglio
Juan José Maglio was an Argentine professional football player.More
20 Alejandro Villanueva
Carlos Alejandro Villanueva Martínez was a Peruvian footballer who played for Alianza Lima and the Peru national football team. He is considered one of the most important Alianza strikers in the 1920s and 1930s.More
21 Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales, a mostly flat region in the east of the country.More

Result

 1927 South American Championship Champions 

Argentina
Third title

Goal scorers

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

1927 South American Championship Result articles: 2
Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in the southeastern region of South America. It borders Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, with the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. Uruguay is home to an estimated 3.51 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. With an area of approximately 176,000 square kilometers (68,000 sq mi), Uruguay is geographically the second-smallest nation in South America, after Suriname.More
Juan Arremón
Juan Pedro Arremón was a Uruguayan football player. He competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and played club football for Peñarol.More

References

  1. ^ South American Championship 1927 on the RSSSF
  2. ^ 1927. Argentina campeón sudamericano by Humberto Recanatini on El Gráfico, 1927