Argentina Football Formation

Lineup (5-3-2)

Juan Botasso · Fernando Paternoster · José Della Torre · Luis Monti · Juan Evaristo · Pedro Suárez · Carlos Peucelle · Mario Evaristo · Francisco Varallo · Manuel Ferreira (c) · Guillermo Stábile

Argentina "Runners-Up XI" (1930)

Argentina with their brilliant Footballing style full of individual masterpieces, met Uruguay in the final. Both teams played with the style often known as "La Nuestra". however, Argentina lost to Uruguay 4-2 because they lacked good defensive formation in comparison to Uruguay.

Argentina 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 and elegance, but technical superiority cannot compensate for the abandonment of tactics. Between the two rioplatense national teams, the ants are the Uruguayans, the cicadas are the Argentinians.’


Coach/Manager :- Francisco Olazar and Juan José Tramutola.