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1953 South American Championship

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1 Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to outscore the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal. The team with the higher number of goals wins the game.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 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
1953 South American Championship
Tournament details
Host countryPeru
DatesFebruary 22 – April 1
Teams7 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Paraguay (1st title)
Runners-up  Brazil
Third place  Uruguay
Fourth place  Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played22
Goals scored67 (3.05 per match)
Top scorer(s) Francisco Molina
(7 goals)
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The South American Championship 1953 was a football tournament held in Peru and won by Paraguay with Brazil second.

Argentina, and Colombia withdrew from the tournament.

Francisco Molina from Chile became top scorer of the tournament with 8 goals.

1953 South American Championship Intro articles: 5
1 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
2 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
3 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
4 Francisco Molina
Francisco "Paco" Molina Simón was a Spanish–Chilean football player and manager.More
5 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

Venues

Lima
Estadio Nacional de Lima
Capacity: 50,000

Final round

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Brazil 6 4 0 2 15 6 +9 8
 Paraguay 6 3 2 1 11 6 +5 8
 Uruguay 6 3 1 2 15 6 +9 7
 Chile 6 3 1 2 10 10 0 7
 Peru 6 3 1 2 4 6 −2 7
 Bolivia 6 1 1 4 6 15 −9 3
 Ecuador 6 0 2 4 1 13 −12 2
Bolivia  1–0  Peru
Ugarte  53'
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: George Rhoden (England)
Paraguay  3–0  Chile
Fernández  54', 75'
Berni  78'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Richard Maddison (England)
Uruguay  2–0  Bolivia
Puente  11'
Carlos Romero  88'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Charles Dean (England)
Peru  1–0  Ecuador
Gómez Sánchez  78'
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: George Rhoden (England)
Brazil  8–1  Bolivia
Julinho  18', 20', 42', 52'
Francisco Rodrigues  25', 44'
Pinga  39', 60'		 Ugarte  73' (pen.)
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Richard Maddison (England)
Chile  3–2  Uruguay
Molina  5', 55', 67' Morel  70'
Balseiro  81'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Charles Dean (England)
Paraguay  0–0  Ecuador
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Mário Silveira Vianna (Brazil)
Chile  0–0  Peru
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Richard Maddison (England)
Bolivia  1–1  Ecuador
Alcón  25' Guzmán  6'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Charles McKenna (England)
Peru  2–2  Paraguay
Gómez Sánchez  47'
Terry  53'		 Fernández  36'
Berni  77'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Richard Maddison (England)
Match was awarded to Peru due to unsportsmanlike behaviour of Paraguay by making one extra change.
Milner Ayala was banned for three years for kicking the referee.
Paraguay  2–2  Uruguay
Atilio López  5'
Berni  52'		 Balseiro  36', 55'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: David Gregory (England)
Brazil  2–0  Ecuador
Ademir  18'
Cláudio  55'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Richard Maddison (England)
Brazil  1–0  Uruguay
Ipojucan  87'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Charles McKenna (England)
Paraguay  2–1  Bolivia
Angel Romero  17'
Berni  22'		 Ramon Santos  76'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: David Gregory (England)
Chile  3–0  Ecuador
Molina  33', 47'
Cremaschi  70'
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Richard Maddison (England)
Peru  1–0  Brazil
Navarrete  51'
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Charles McKenna (England)
Brazil  3–2  Chile
Julinho  1'
Zizinho  53'
Baltazar  70'		 Molina  62', 76'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Richard Maddison (England)
Uruguay  6–0  Ecuador
Méndez  12'
Puente  51'
Peláez  58'
Morel  60'
Carlos Romero  86'
Balseiro  88'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: David Gregory (England)
Paraguay  2–1  Brazil
Atilio López  49'
León  89'		 Nílton Santos  12'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Charles Dean (England)
Chile  2–2  Bolivia
Meléndez  28'
Díaz Carmona  52'		 Ramón Santos  15'
Alcón  49'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Richard Maddison (England)
Match was suspended after 66th min, and awarded to Chile due to unsportsmanlike behaviour of Bolivia.
Uruguay  3–0  Peru
Peláez  23', 67'
Carlos Romero  71'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Mário Silveira Vianna (Brazil)

Play Offs

Main article: 1953 South American Championship Final
Paraguay  3–2  Brazil
Atilio López  14'
Gavilán  17'
Fernández  41'		 Baltazar  56', 65'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Charles Dean (England)

Result

 1953 South American Championship Champions 

Paraguay
1st title

Goal scorers

7 Goals

5 Goals

4 Goals

3 Goals

2 Goals

1 Goal

1953 South American Championship Venues articles: 23
1 Julinho (footballer, born 1929)
Júlio Botelho, also known as Julinho was a Brazilian football player. He was primarily a right winger. Known for his dribbling ability and powerful shot, Julinho was one of the greatest wingers in football history. He was selected by Eric Batty in the World Soccer Magazine world XI in 1960.More
2 Ángel Berni
Ángel Antonio Berni Gómez was a football striker.More
3 Rubén Fernández (footballer)
Rubén Fernández Real is a retired Paraguayan football player. He captained the national team during the 1953 South American Championship that was won by Paraguay.More
4 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
5 Baltazar (footballer)
Oswaldo da Silva, commonly known as Baltazar, was a Brazilian footballer. Nicknamed Cabecinha de Ouro by fans, he played as a striker.More
6 Atilio López
Higinio Atilio López Riveros was a Paraguayan football striker and coach.More
7 Carlos Romero (footballer)
Carlos Romero was a Uruguayan footballer, who played for Danubio.More
8 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
9 Víctor Ugarte
Víctor Agustín Ugarte Oviedo was a Bolivian footballer. He scored 16 goals in 45 caps for Bolivia, making him their third all-time top goalscorer behind Joaquín Botero and Marcelo Moreno. His national team career lasted from 1947 to 1963, and he played for the Bolivian team that won the 1963 Copa América, where he scored two goals in Bolivia's final match of the tournament against Brazil.More
10 José Lázaro Robles
José Lázaro Robles, best known as Pinga was a Brazilian footballer.More
11 Francisco Rodrigues (Brazilian footballer)
Francisco Rodrigues was a Brazilian footballer.More
12 Óscar Gómez Sánchez
Óscar Gómez Sánchez was a Peruvian football player.More
13 Ademir de Menezes
Ademir Marques de Menezes, best known as Ademir de Menezes, was a Brazilian footballer, regarded as one of the best centre forwards in the history of the Brazil national team. His prominent underbite earned him the nickname "Queixada", which means "jaw".More
14 Cláudio Christovam de Pinho
Cláudio Christóvam de Pinho, better known as Cláudio, is the biggest scorer of all time for Corinthians. He has scored 306 goals in 554 games for the team, where he was nicknamed “Manager”. He was also known for being a skillful player, who placed the ball anywhere he wanted, and is usually ranked as the 3rd best ever Corinthians player, after Rivelino and Sócrates.More
15 Nílton Santos
Nílton dos Santos was a Brazilian footballer who primarily played as a wingback. At international level, he was a member of the Brazil squads that won the 1958 and 1962 World Cups.More
16 Zizinho
Thomaz Soares da Silva, also known as Zizinho, was a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for the Brazil national football team. He came to international prominence at the 1950 World Cup, where he scored two goals. He was lauded as a complete player, renowned for his incredible array of offensive skills such as his dribbling, passing, and shooting ability with both feet, as well as his accuracy from dead ball situations and extraordinary vision, and is often considered the best Brazilian footballer of the pre-Pelé era.More
17 Atilio Cremaschi
Atilio Cremaschi Oyarzún was a Chilean footballer who played for Unión Española, Colo-Colo and Rangers of Chile and in the Chile national football team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.More
18 René Meléndez
René Orlando Meléndez Brito was a Chilean footballer.More
19 Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres (621 mi) west of the mainland. The capital is Quito.More
20 Manuel Gavilán
Manuel Gavilán was a Paraguayan football defender who played for Paraguay in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Club Libertad.More
21 Luis Navarrete
Luis Navarrete is a Cuban gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.More
22 Alberto Terry
Alberto Terry Arias-Schreiber, popularly known as "Toto," was a Peruvian footballer who played for Universitario de Deportes, Sporting Cristal, and the Peru national football team. He is recognized as one of Peru's most important midfielders.More
23 Omar Méndez
Omar Pedro Méndez is a Uruguayan football forward who played for Uruguay in the 1954 and 1962 FIFA World Cups. He also played for Club Nacional de Football and he succeeded in Ferro Carril Oeste, in Argentina in 1958.More

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References

  1. ^ Oliver, Guy (1992). The Guinness Record of World Soccer. Guinness publishing. p. 561. ISBN 0-85112-954-4.