South American Championship of Champions
The Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones, Portuguese Campeonato Sul - Americano de Champ, German South American Championship of Champions, was a South American club football competition which was held between the champion clubs from seven countries in February and March 1948 in Santiago de Chile. The tournament was hosted by the Chilean champions club CSD Colo-Colo. Winner and therefore was the first South American champions CR Vasco da Gama from Brazil.
1996 the tournament from the South American federation CONMEBOL was subsequently awarded official status and recognized as a precursor to the Copa Libertadores. This allowed Vasco da Gama to participate in the Supercopa Sudamericana in 1997, a competition between all former champions South America.
History
Regular on national club competitions in South America date back to the Copa Comeptencia between clubs from Argentina and Uruguay, which was first staged in 1905. This in turn resulted in the Copa Aldao, a trophy between the champion clubs of the two countries, which was played from 1913 to the 1950s, more or less regularly. But Further competitions were due to the large distances unthinkable for a long time. Even within some countries, the distances proved to be too large for national championships. Bolivia and Brazil introduced the first national competition in the late 1950s, Peru did not until 1966.
1929 were first nurtured by leaders of the Uruguayan club Nacional Montevideo tip more concrete thoughts on a South American club championship, which resulted in the fact that in 1946, reflected on the geography of a potential venue for a tournament, which also runners should participate. It was finally Robinson Alvarez Marín, president of the Chilean Colo-Colo top club who invited to a tournament in Santiago, the capital of his home country, at the beginning of the year 1948.
The tournament, which Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones, the South American Championship of Champions was a great success. In the 21 games were 76 goals and thus 3.62 per game. Average 39.549 spectators watched the games and provided for a gross income of 9,493,483 pesos.
Participant
- Chile Colo -Colo - Chilean champion in 1947 and hosts
- CS Emelec Ecuador - Ecuador, invited, as no national championship
- Bolivia CD Litoral - Master of the Bolivian capital La Paz in 1947, as no national championship
- Peru 1825 Deportivo Municipal - Peruvian Vice Champion 1947
- Uruguay Nacional Montevideo - Uruguayan Champion 1947
- CA River Plate Argentina - Argentine champion in 1947
- Brazil 1889 CR Vasco da Gama - champion of Rio de Janeiro, 1947 ( undefeated )
Notes:
- Deportivo Municipal participated in place of the Peruvian champion Atlético Chalaco.
- Vasco da Gama, Champion of Rio de Janeiro, was a Brazilian representative sent because no national championship competition existed. Preference to the Master of São Paulo Palmeiras was given because the selection state of Rio in 1946 won the Brazilian championship, the state representative teams and thus was considered more was.
Tournament
Favorite was the Argentinian master CA River Plate, who at that time about one of the outstanding club formations in football history known as La Maquina, decreed. Name as Juan Carlos Muñoz, José Manuel Moreno, Néstor Rossi, Ángel Labruna Félix Loustau and the rising star Alfredo Di Stéfano have a good sound today.
Challenger was, who traveled from Brazil champion of Rio de Janeiro, Vasco da Gama, trained by Flávio Costa, the master student Izidor furrier. Led by Augusto and Ely, and with dangerous strikers like Ademir de Menezes, Friaça and the young Francisco "Chico" Aramburu they were still a blank slate, because until then no Brazilian team was able to achieve a more significant success abroad.
Eligible hopes went well Nacional Montevideo, tested over decades in the fight against the best Argentine teams. After Nacional in the first game against the Peruvian vice-champion Deportivo Municipal barely 3-2 retained the upper hand followed by disillusionment in the second tournament game against Vasco. In the storm over the Cariocas the Uruguayan star Walter Gómez scored the equalizing short term, but in the end it was 4-1 for the Brazilians, although their Sturmführer Ademir de Menezes excluded prematurely with a broken leg - and thus failed for the rest of the tournament.
Nacional held in the next game against Litoral from the Bolivian capital La Paz with a 3-1 victory harmless, and after a 3-0 victory against favorites River Plate hopes for a tournament victory began to emerge again. But after a 0-3 against the host Colo- Colo in the following game whose fate was no longer in the hands of Uruguay.
After Vasco in his penultimate tournament game against the hosts lost the first point with a 1-1, it now came March 14 at a quasi- final against River that no further slip-ups allowed after the defeat against Nacional, but now needed a victory the first South American Championship to decide for themselves.
This Sunday evening, there was an open battle between the stressed part of the team from Rio Millonarios from Buenos Aires and who was preparing to be because the legendary Expresso Vitória. Both goalkeepers - both as a mediocre classified Hector Grisetti River, as well Moacyr Barbosa, two years later, probably wrongly, to blame for the Brazilian defeat in the World Cup final was imposed from 1950 - often had the opportunity to excel. A hit Chico, one of the outstanding players on the pitch, was denied recognition by the Uruguayan referee Nobel Valentini and midway through the second half he referred him after a tussle with the Argentines Méndez along with this even the field. The game ended goalless, with which the Maltese cruisers undefeated for the first champions of South America were.
Games and Final Table
The Ultimate Game
During the tournament Vasco da Gama put the following players a:
- Fausto Barcheta (Tor ), Moacir, Nestor, Ademir de Menezes, Dimas, Lele