Uruguay Football Formation

Lineup (5-3-2)

Enrique Ballestrero · Ernesto Mascheroni · José Nasazzi (c) · Álvaro Gestido · José Andrade · Lorenzo Fernández · Pablo Dorado · Santos Iriarte · Pedro Cea · Héctor Scarone · Héctor Castro

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 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 :- Alberto Suppici