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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 successfully retained their ...
Pages in category "1930 FIFA World Cup players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 249 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Best player at the South American Championship: 1923, 1935; 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]
Despite not being at his peak he managed to be one of Uruguay's best players as they won the 1930 World Cup. At the end of the tournament he was selected in the All-Star team. [9] [19] [20] In 1994, he was selected by France Football as number ten in their World Cup Top-100. [21] A plaque was placed at the Estadio Centenario in honour of his ...
"1930 FIFA World Cup Teams". FIFA. Archived from the original on 14 June 2008 "World Cup Champions Squads 1930–2002". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008 "The Early World Cups". US National Soccer Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 15 April 2009
FIFA decided in 2007 to retroactively award winners' medals to all members of the winning squads between 1930 and 1974. [1] World Cup winning players are among a selected few who are officially allowed to touch the FIFA World Cup Trophy with bare hands, the group also including managers who have won the competition, heads of state, and FIFA ...
Agustín Héctor Castro Rodríguez (29 November 1904 – 15 September 1960) was a Uruguayan football player and coach. [3] He scored Uruguay's first ever goal in a World Cup against Peru at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 a tournament they would go on to win.
Since then, only 25 players have scored more World Cup goals in total than Stábile did during the 1930 tournament. The first to do so was Hungary 's Sándor Kocsis , scoring eleven in 1954 . At the following tournament , France's Just Fontaine improved on this record, recording thirteen goals in just six matches.