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by Satadru145
Uruguay players:
- Ladislao Mazurkiewicz
- Obdulio Varela (c)
- José Santamaría
- José Andrade
- Paolo Montero
- Luís Cubilla
- Pedro Rocha
- Diego Forlán
- Alcides Ghiggia
- Juan Schiaffino
- Enzo Francescoli
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by Satadru145
Uruguay players:
- Roque Máspoli
- Matías González
- Schubert Gambetta
- Víctor Rodríguez Andrade
- Eusebio Tejera
- Obdulio Varela (c)
- Omar Oscar Míguez
- Julio Pérez
- Rubén Morán
- Alcides Ghiggia
- Juan Alberto Schiaffino
About this formation:
Uruguay "Victorious XI" (1950)
Officially there were 173,850 at the Maracanã that day; in reality there were probably over 200,000. So overcome by nerves was Julio Pérez, Uruguay’s inside-right - or right-half, in the revised formation - that he wet himself during the anthems. Gradually, though, the pressure shifted. Brazil controlled the
early stages - López’s tactics perhaps subdued Brazil, but they did not neutralise them - but the opening goal would not come. Jair hit the post; Roque Máspoli, in Glanville’s words, performed acrobatic prodigies in goal’; but at half-time it was still goalless. Home nerves were mounting.
Evidently it was a battle between the brilliant Brazilian attack and Uruguayan Defense. Brazil required... -
by Satadru145
Uruguay players:
- Enrique Ballestrero
- Ernesto Mascheroni
- José Nasazzi (c)
- Álvaro Gestido
- José Andrade
- Lorenzo Fernández
- Pablo Dorado
- Santos Iriarte
- Pedro Cea
- Héctor Scarone
- Héctor Castro
About this formation:
Uruguay "Victorious XI" (1930)
Uruguay won the inaugural World Cup beating a equally brilliant Argentina with the style of Football well-known as "La Nuestra". Uruguay played with a formation in tradition of that time, which is 2-3-5 (instead of 5-3-2 as wrongly indicated).
As far as it is possible to judge from contemporary
reports, Uruguay’s advantage seems to have been that, for all their artistry and for all Ondino Viera’s claims of a raw spontaneity, they were able to retain a defensive shape, whereas Argentina’s individualism led at times to confusion. According to the Italian journalist Gianni Brera in Storia critica del calcio Italiano, the 1930 World Cup final was evidence that, ‘Argentina play football with a lot of imagination...
