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1957 South American Championship

1957 South American Championship
FieldValue
tourney_name
year1957
countryPeru
dates7 March – 6 April
num_teams7
confederations1
venues1
cities1
championArgentina
count11
secondBrazil
second-flagvar1889
thirdUruguay
fourthPeru
matches21
goals101
top_scorerURU Javier Ambrois
ARG Humberto Maschio
(9 goals each)
prevseason[1956](1956-south-american-championship)
nextseason[1959 (Argentina)](1959-south-american-championship-argentina)

| second-flagvar = 1889 ARG Humberto Maschio (9 goals each)

The South American Championship 1957 was a football tournament held in Peru and won by Argentina with Brazil as runners-up. Bolivia, and Paraguay withdrew from the tournament.

Humberto Maschio from Argentina and Javier Ambrois from Uruguay became top scorers of the tournament with 9 goals each.

Summary

Managed by Guillermo Stábile, Argentina won the tournament with a team widely considered one of the best squads in its history, and the first "legendary team" of Argentina since its inception in 1901. The attacking line (nicknamed Carasucias) was composed of Omar Corbatta, Humberto Maschio, Antonio Angelillo, Enrique Sívori and Osvaldo Cruz. Beyond its virtues and high goalscoring (25 goals in 6 matches), Argentina was a well-balanced team with a strong defense with Pedro Dellacha and Néstor Rossi as two of its most notable players that helped the team to finish the competition with the fewest goals conceded.

Despite Argentina having won other South American competitions before, the 1957 Sudamericano was the first Argentine achievement with a great repercussion on the media. Likewise, Sívori was chosen as the best player of the tournament.

Because of their great performances, Maschio, Angelillo and Sívori would be traded to Italian clubs (Bologna, Internazionale and Juventus respectively) after the tournament, losing the chance to play the FIFA World Cup held in Sweden one year later, due to the AFA interventor, Raúl Colombo, not calling them for the national team considering that "we are plenty of players here".

Squads

The Argentina winning squad

For a complete list of participating squads see: 1957 South American Championship squads

Venues

Lima
Estadio Nacional de Lima
Capacity: **50,000**
[[File:Estadio Nacional 1952.jpg222x222px]]

Final round

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
6501256+19**10**
6402239+14**8**
64021512+3**8**
6402129+3**8**
62041025−15**4**
6114917−8**3**
6015723−16**1**

Sasía

Angelillo
Maschio
Corbatta Valencia

Pepe Fernández

Sívori

Angelillo
Sanfilippo

Pepe
Zizinho
Joel
Didì

Espinoza Carrillo

Carranza Seminario
Mosquera

Cantos

Evaristo Didì
Zizinho

Rivera
Bassa

Angelillo
Maschio
Corbatta

Ambrois Didì

Gutiérrez
Gamboa

Roque Match suspended at the 43rd minute due to pitch invasion.

Maschio
Cruz

Terry

Result

Goalscorers

Humberto Maschio, one of the two top scorers

A total of 33 different players scored 101 goals in the tournament. None were credited as own goals.

9 Goals

  • ARG Humberto Maschio
  • URU Javier Ambrois

8 Goals

  • ARG Antonio Angelillo
  • BRA Didi
  • BRA Evaristo

5 Goals

  • PER Alberto Terry

4 Goals

  • ECU Jorge Larraz

3 Goals

  • ARG Omar Sívori
  • BRA Pepe
  • CHI José Fernández
  • CHI Jaime Ramírez Banda
  • COL Carlos Arango
  • COL Delio Gamboa
  • ECU Enrique Cantos
  • PER Máximo Mosquera
  • URU Luis Campero

2 Goals

  • ARG Oreste Corbatta
  • ARG Osvaldo Cruz
  • BRA Joel
  • BRA Zizinho
  • CHI Carlos Verdejo
  • PER Manuel Rivera

1 Goal

  • ARG José Sanfilippo
  • CHI Sergio Espinosa
  • COL Alejandro Carrillo
  • COL Humberto Álvarez
  • COL Jaime Gutiérrez
  • COL Alberto Valencia
  • PER Juan Bassa
  • PER Juan Seminario
  • URU Carlos María Carranza
  • URU José Walter Roque
  • URU José Sasía

References

References

  1. [https://www.rsssf.org/tables/57safull.html South American Championship 1957] at RSSSF
  2. [https://www.elgrafico.com.ar/articulo/1088/31259/1957-los-angeles-carasucias Los ángeles carasucias], ''El Gráfico'' 8 February 2018
  3. [https://www.espn.com.ar/futbol/copa-america/nota/_/id/2668817/la-primera-delantera-mediatica-de-argentina La primera delantera mediática] by Roberto Martínez on ESPN, 7 May 2016
  4. [https://www.elgrafico.com.ar/articulo/0/5233/idolos-de-la-seleccion-humberto-maschio Ídolos: Humberto Maschio], ''El Gráfico'', 6 May 2014
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