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1937 South American Championship

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1 Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and largest city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre", named after the Madonna of Bonaria in Sardinia. The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 15.6 million.More
2 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
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 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
5 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
6 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
7 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
8 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
9 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
10 Colombia national football team
The Colombia national football team represents Colombia in men's international football and is managed by the Colombian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Colombia. They are an member of CONMEBOL and is currently ranked 10th in the FIFA World Rankings. The team are nicknamed Los Cafeteros due to the coffee production in their country.More
1937 South American Championship
Tournament details
Host countryArgentina
DatesDecember 27, 1936 – February 1, 1937
Teams6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Argentina (5th title)
Runners-up  Brazil
Third place  Uruguay
Fourth place  Paraguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored69 (4.31 per match)
Top scorer(s) Raúl Toro
(7 goals)
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The Argentina squad

The fourteenth edition of the South American Championship of football was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from December 27, 1936, to February 1, 1937.

The participating countries were Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay thus making this the first edition in which more than five teams took part of the event.

Bolivia, and Colombia (a new CONMEBOL member) withdrew from the tournament.

1937 South American Championship Intro articles: 1
1 CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation is the continental governing body of football in South America, and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations. The oldest continental confederation in the world, its headquarters are located in Luque, Paraguay, near Asunción. CONMEBOL is responsible for the organization and governance of South American football's major international tournaments. With 10 member football associations, it has the fewest members of all the confederations in FIFA.More

Venues

Buenos Aires
Estadio Gasómetro de Boedo Estadio Alvear y Tagle
Capacity: 75,000 Capacity: 40,000

Final round

Chilean Raúl Toro, top scorer of the tournament

Each team played 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 5 4 0 1 12 5 +7 8
 Brazil 5 4 0 1 17 9 +8 8
 Uruguay 5 2 0 3 11 14 −3 4
 Paraguay 5 2 0 3 8 16 −8 4
 Chile 5 1 1 3 12 13 −1 3
 Peru 5 1 1 3 7 10 −3 3

As Brazil and Argentina were tied, a playoff was disputed.

Brazil  3–2  Peru
Roberto  7'
Afonsinho  30'
Niginho  57'		 T. Fernández  55'
Villanueva  58'
Referee: Alfredo Vargas (Chile)
Argentina  2–1  Chile
Varallo  30', 43' Toro  73'
Referee: Aníbal Tejada (Uruguay)
Paraguay  4–2  Uruguay
A. Ortega  9', 79'
A. González  35'
Erico  38' (pen.)		 Varela  16', 28'
Referee: Virgílio Antônio Fedrighi (Brazil)
Brazil  6–4  Chile
Patesko  2', 26'
Carvalho Leite  6'
Luisinho  35', 40'
Roberto  68'		 Avendaño  19'
Toro  25', 73'
Riveros  40'
Referee: José Bartolomé Macías (Argentina)
Uruguay  4–2  Peru
Camaití  16'
Varela  31', 56'
Píriz  79'		 T. Fernández  29'
Magallanes  40'
Referee: Aníbal Tejada (Uruguay)
Argentina  6–1  Paraguay
Scopelli  5', 54'
García  8'
Zozaya  33', 75', 82'		 A. González  86'
Referee: Alfredo Vargas (Chile)
Uruguay  0–3  Chile
Toro  17', 83'
Arancibia  59'
Referee: José Bartolomé Macías (Argentina)
Brazil  5–0  Paraguay
Patesko  31', 67'
Luisinho  42', 51'
Carvalho Leite  59'
Referee: José Bartolomé Macías (Argentina)
Argentina  1–0  Peru
Zozaya  55'
Referee: Aníbal Tejada (Uruguay)
Paraguay  3–2  Chile
Amarilla  5'
Flor  47'
Núñez Velloso  78'		 Toro  8', 32'
Referee: Aníbal Tejada (Uruguay)
Brazil  3–2  Uruguay
Carvalho Leite  36'
Bahia  72'
Niginho  77'		 Villadóniga  1'
Píriz  66'
Referee: José Bartolomé Macías (Argentina)
Peru  2–2  Chile
J. Alcalde  1', 26' Torres  16'
Carmona  70'
Referee: José Bartolomé Macías (Argentina)
Argentina  2–3  Uruguay
Varallo  63'
Zozaya  68'		 Ithurbide  5'
Píriz  51'
Varela  58'
Referee: Alfredo Vargas (Chile)
Paraguay  0–1[1]  Peru
Lavalle  43'
Referee: Aníbal Tejada (Uruguay)
Argentina  1–0  Brazil
García  48'
Referee: Aníbal Tejada (Uruguay)

Play Offs

Main article: 1937 South American Championship Final
Argentina  2–0
(a.e.t.)		  Brazil
De la Mata  102', 112'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Aníbal Tejada (Uruguay)

1937 South American Championship Venues articles: 33
1 Roberto Emílio da Cunha
Roberto Emílio da Cunha, best known as Roberto was a Brazilian footballer who played as a striker.More
2 Afonsinho
Afonso Guimarães da Silva, best known as Afonsinho, was a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.More
3 Niginho
Leonídio Fantoni, best known as Niginho or Fantoni III was a professional association footballer who played as a forward.More
4 Teodoro Fernández
Teodoro Fernández Meyzán, nicknamed "Lolo", was a Peruvian football striker. He was part of the Peru national football team that reached quarter-finals in the 1936 Summer Olympics and won the 1939 Copa America, a tournament where he emerged as the top scorer and best player. He was captain of the Peru national football team from 1935 to 1947 scoring 24 goals in 32 matches.More
5 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
6 Estadio Gasómetro
Estadio Gasómetro was a multi-purpose stadium in the barrio (neighborhood) of Boedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.More
7 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
8 Francisco Varallo
Francisco Antonio Varallo was an Argentine football forward. He played for the Argentine national team from 1930 to 1937. He was a member of Argentina's squad at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930. During his career, Varallo won three leagues titles with Boca Juniors, and with 194 goals, is the club's third highest all-time leading goalscorer.More
9 Raúl Toro Julio
Raúl Toro Julio was a former Chilean international footballer who played as a forward. Several ex-footballers consider him the best player from the early history of football in Chile.More
10 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
11 Amadeo Ortega
Amadeo Ortega was a Paraguayan football forward who played for Paraguay in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Club River Plate.More
12 Aurelio González (footballer)
Aurelio Ramón González Benítez was a Paraguayan football player.More
13 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
14 Severino Varela
Severino Varela Puente was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a striker. With 15 goals, he is Uruguay's all-time top scorer at the Copa América.More
15 Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with over 211 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; as well as the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.More
16 Rodolpho Barteczko
Rodolpho Barteczko, best known as Patesko, was a Brazilian footballer who played striker. He was born in Curitiba, Brazil and died in Rio de Janeiro.More
17 Carvalho Leite
Carlos Antônio Dobbert de Carvalho Leite, best known as Carvalho Leite was a Brazilian Association footballer who played as a striker.More
18 Luís Mesquita de Oliveira
Luís Mesquita de Oliveira, best known as Luisinho, was an association footballer, one of the most valuable strikers of the 1930s.More
19 Guillermo Riveros
Guillermo Riveros Conejeros was a Chilean football defender.More
20 Estadio Alvear y Tagle
The Estadio Alvear y Tagle was a stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The venue had a capacity for 40,000 spectators and was located on Alvear, in the Recoleta district. Opened in 1923, it was rented and operated by Club Atlético River Plate, being used as its home venue until the club inaugurated the Estadio Monumental in 1938.More
21 Juan Píriz
Juan Píriz was an Uruguayan football (soccer) player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.More
22 Adelfo Magallanes
Adelfo Magallanes Campos was a Peruvian footballer. He was part of the first golden era of the Peru national football team.More
23 Alejandro Scopelli
Alejandro Scopelli Casanova was an Italian Argentine football player and coach. A striker, he played for Argentina between 1929 and 1941, and competed at the inaugural 1930 FIFA World Cup. He also represented the Italy national football team on one occasion.More
24 Enrique García
Enrique García was an Argentine football left winger who won the Copa América on two occasions with the Argentina national team.More
25 Alberto Zozaya
Alberto Maximo Zozaya was an Argentine football striker who played most of his career for Estudiantes de La Plata and represented the Argentina national team.More
26 Antônio Almeida
Antônio Almeida is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.More
27 Segundo Villadóniga
Segundo Villadóniga was a Uruguayan footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.More
28 Jorge Alcalde
Jorge Luis Félix "Campolo" Alcalde Millos was a Peruvian professional footballer. He played as a striker, and was especially noted for his time spent with the Peru national football team.More
29 José María Lavalle
José María Lavalle Covarrubias was a Peruvian football forward who played for Peru in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Alianza Lima.More
30 1937 South American Championship Final
The 1937 South American Championship Final was the final match to determine the South American Cup champion. It was held on February 1, 1937, in San Lorenzo de Almagro's venue, Estadio Gasómetro of Buenos Aires. Because of the heat, most of the matches were played at night while other games were played at daytime (being held in River Plate's venue, Estadio Alvear y Tagle.More
31 Overtime (sports)
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required to have a clear winner, as in single-elimination tournaments where only one team or players can advance to the next round or win the tournament. In other sports, particularly those prominently played in North America where ties are generally disfavored, some form of overtime is employed for all games.More
32 Vicente de la Mata
Vicente de la Mata was an Argentine football forward and manager. He played most of his club career for Independiente and played for the Argentina national team between 1937 and 1946.More
33 Uruguayan Football Association
The Uruguayan Football Association is the governing body of football in Uruguay. It was founded in 1900, as The Uruguayan Association Football League, and affiliated to FIFA in 1923. It is a founding member of CONMEBOL and is in charge of the national men's team and the national women's team, as well as the Uruguayan football league system.More

Result

 1937 South American Championship Champions 

Argentina
Fifth title

Goal scorers

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1937 South American Championship Result articles: 2
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Although one of only two landlocked countries in South America, the country has coasts, beaches and ports on the Paraguay and Paraná rivers that give exit to the Atlantic Ocean through the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway.More
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

References

  1. ^ Behr, Raul. "Un histórico flash" (in Spanish). Dechalaca.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
  2. ^ Oliver, Guy (1992). The Guinness Record of World Soccer. Guinness publishing. p. 555. ISBN 0-85112-954-4.

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