1957 South American Championship Explained

Year:1957
Country:Peru
Dates:7 March – 6 April
Num Teams:7
Confederations:1
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champion:Argentina
Count:11
Second:Brazil
Second-Flagvar:1889
Third:Uruguay
Fourth:Peru
Matches:21
Goals:101
Top Scorer: Javier Ambrois
Humberto Maschio
(9 goals each)
Prevseason:1956
Nextseason:1959 (Argentina)

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.[1]

Summary

Managed by Guillermo Stábile, Argentina won the tournament with a team widely considered one of the best squads in its history,[2] 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.[3]

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,[4] due to the AFA interventor, Raúl Colombo, not calling them for the national team considering that "we are plenty of players here".[2]

Squads

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

Venues

Lima
Estadio Nacional de Lima
Capacity: 50,000

Final round

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

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Goalscorers

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

9 Goals

8 Goals

5 Goals

4 Goals

3 Goals

2 Goals

1 Goal

Notes and References

  1. https://www.rsssf.org/tables/57safull.html South American Championship 1957
  2. https://www.elgrafico.com.ar/articulo/1088/31259/1957-los-angeles-carasucias Los ángeles carasucias
  3. https://www.espn.com.ar/futbol/copa-america/nota/_/id/2668817/la-primera-delantera-mediatica-de-argentina La primera delantera mediática
  4. https://www.elgrafico.com.ar/articulo/0/5233/idolos-de-la-seleccion-humberto-maschio Ídolos: Humberto Maschio