|
Rank |
No official ranking system established; |
Colours |
Sky blue and white board striped v-necked jerseys, black shorts, pale blue socks |
Captain |
Eliseo Mouriño |
Manager |
Guillermo Antonio Stábile, 48 (17 January
1905) Team chosen on Monday, 11 May 1953 |
Buenos
Aires
Lineup |
|
Musimessa, Julio E. |
28
309 days |
9 July 1924 |
G |
Club Atlético Boca Juniors |
2 |
Dellacha, Pedro R. |
26
309 days |
9 July 1926 |
RB |
Racing Club |
3 |
García Pérez, José |
31
162 days |
3 December 1921 |
LB |
Racing Club |
4 |
Lombardo, Juan Francisco |
27
307 days |
11 July 1925 |
RHB |
Club Atlético Boca Juniors |
5 |
Mouriño Oyarbide, Eliseo V. |
25
345 days |
3 June 1927 |
CHB |
Club Atlético Boca Juniors |
6 |
Gutiárrez Bonomo, Ernesto |
25
186 days |
9 November 1927 |
LHB |
Racing Club |
7
|
Micheli, Rodolfo J. |
23
20 days |
24 April 1930 |
OR |
Club Atlético Independiente |
8 |
Cecconato, José Carlos,
off 43rd min. |
23
107 days |
27 January 1930 |
IR |
Club Atlético Independiente |
9 |
Lacasa, Carlos |
27
12 days |
2 May 1926 |
CF |
Club Atlético Independiente |
10
|
Grillo, Ernesto J. |
23
225 days |
1 October 1929 |
IL |
Club Atlético Independiente |
11 |
Cruz, Osvaldo H. |
21
351 days |
29 May 1931 |
OL |
Club Atlético Independiente |
Buenos
Aires XI Substitute |
scoreline:
Buenos Aires XI 1 FA XI 1 |
|
Méndez, Norberto R., on 43rd min. for Cecconato |
30
129 days |
5 January 1923 |
IR |
Racing Club |
|
|
result:
Buenos Aires XI 3 FA XI 1 |
unused substitutes: |
- |
team notes: |
In the 43rd minute,
José Carlos Cecconato suddenly developed a limp, to be replaced
by Méndez. |
|
2-3-5 |
Musimessa - Dellacha, García Pérez - Lombardo, Mouriño,
Gutiérrez - Michelli, Cicconato (Méndez), Lacasia,
Grillo, Cruz |
Averages:
(starting)
(finishing) |
Age |
25 years 346 days 26
years 216 days |
|
|
|
Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 4th |
Colours |
The 1949 home
uniform -
White collared short-sleeved jerseys, blue shorts, black socks
with white tops. |
Captain
|
Billy Wright |
Manager |
Walter Winterbottom, 40 (31 March 1913), appointed as FA national director of coaching/team manager on 8 July 1946; |
Trainer: Jimmy Trotter (Charlton Athletic FC) |
Party chosen by Selection Committee headed by Harold Shentall, on Monday, 13 April.
Team chosen on Tuesday, 12 May. |
FA
XI
Lineup |
|
seven
changes
to the previous senior match |
league position (FINAL)
(13 April>2 May) |
|
Ditchburn, Edward G. |
31
202 days |
24 October 1921 |
G |
Tottenham Hotspur FC
(FL 10th>=) |
2 |
Garrett, Thomas H. |
27
75 days |
28 February 1926 |
RB |
Blackpool FC (FL
7th>=) |
3 |
Eckersley, William |
27
302 days |
16 July 1925 |
LB |
Blackburn Rovers FC (FL2 8th>9th) |
4 |
Wright, William A. |
29
97 days |
6 February 1924 |
RHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC (FL TOP>3rd) |
5 |
Barrass, Malcolm W. |
28
152 days |
13 December 1924 |
CHB |
Bolton Wanderers FC
(FL 12th>14th) |
6 |
Barlow, Raymond J. |
26
270 days |
17 August 1926 |
LHB |
West Bromwich Albion FC
(FL 5th>4th) |
7 |
Berry, R. John |
26
347 days |
1 June 1926 |
OR |
Manchester United FC
(FL 8th>=) |
8 |
Bentley, T.F.
Roy |
28
362 days |
17 May 1924 |
IR |
Chelsea FC (FL 21st>19th) |
9
|
Taylor, Thomas |
21
105 days |
29 January 1932 |
CF |
Manchester United FC
(FL 8th>=) |
10 |
Froggatt, Redfern |
28
264 days |
23 August 1924 |
IL |
Sheffield Wednesday FC
(FL 20th>18th) |
11 |
Froggatt, Jack |
30
178 days |
17 November 1922 |
OL |
Portsmouth FC (FL 13th>15th) |
unused substitutes: |
Gil Merrick (Birmingham City FC
(FL2 9th>6th)),
Alf Ramsey (Tottenham Hotspur FC (FL
10th>=)),
Harry Johnston (Blackpool FC (FL 7th>=))
Jimmy Dickinson (Portsmouth FC
(FL 13th>15th)),
Tom Finney
(Preston North End FC (FL 2nd>RU)),
Ivor Broadis
(Manchester City FC (FL 18th>20th)),
Nat Lofthouse (Bolton Wanderers FC
(FL 12th>14th)). |
team notes: |
Around the 27th minute, Jack Froggatt was injured in a tackle with
Perez, and after attention, resumed playing with a limp. The Froggatt's were
cousins. |
|
2-3-5 |
Ditchburn
- Garrett, Eckersley - Wright, Barrass, Barlow - Berry,
Bentley, Taylor, R.Froggatt, J.Froggatt. |
Averages: |
Age |
27 years 349 days |
|
|
This
England XI looked like A BUNCH OF PUNCH DRUNK OXEN....
You can call it an England B team, or an F.A.
eleven, or anything you like, but when eighteen players travel 8,000 miles
and eleven of them go out in white shirts to play an Argentine team—any
Argentine team—and lose three goals to one, it is a defeat for England in
the eyes of the world and nothing less.
That's what happened at the
vast River Plate Stadium here yesterday. England were made to look like a
bunch of punch-drunk oxen against these little brown men from the pampas
who played like mountain lions from the Andes—smooth, rhythmic, fluent, a
machine-like team which made space and moved the ball magnificently.
For those of us who had travelled all this distance with high hopes of
initial success—the newspapermen, the officials and the odd players, all of
whom suffered more than anyone on the field—it was a galling moment when, a
few minutes from the end, we got the Old South American farewell.
It was a mass waving of white handkerchiefs by more than 90,000 people—just as
they do at Wembley, but this time for a rather different reason. This was
their way of saying adios to the vanquished.
For the English it was nothing more than a miserable match.
For fifteen minutes our boys didn't know what it was all about.
The backward centre-forward, Lacasia, put his right wing
through beautifully and Barlow had to clear off the line. Lacasia
terrified Ditchburn by hitting a burning ball from thirty yards which
scraped past a post. Then Eckersley had to zip across goal, to stop one
from outside left Cruz. England were under desperate pressure and had an
incredible escape when inside left Grillo stormed through and put behind
off the bar, with Ditchburn quite helpless, from about ten yards. England
were struggling as if with one of the local 5lb. beefsteaks, and it took
us 24 minutes to deliver our first shot, and that from Barlow. Yet, after
half an hour, we looked to be improving, winning some tackles, growing
more accurate in midfield, and breaking through to goal.
Tommy Taylor, our only forward, got the first goal. Eckersley
inspired it by going up to force a corner on the left, right on the line.
Jack Froggatt swung the ball in, and there was young Taylor heading a
simple but superb goal.
With the suddenness of a local bomb
going off, the entire stadium was stunned. A few desultory handclaps were
raised.
Yet within one minute the stadium was vibrating with Latin passion and
fury as the Buenos Aires side equalised. Grillo, the inside left wonder
man, a combination of Carter, Mannion, Billy Walker and all the great
ones, made an incredible forty-yard run before beating Ditchburn from an
astonishing angle on the by-line. All this in the forty-first minutes and
two minutes from half-time. Then the "Paisanos" pulled the oldest trick in
the book. Cecconato, inside right, took a dive and on came substitute
Mendez, who played at Wembley in 1951.
Mendez is
known locally as the second-half kid. He has not played first half for his
club and wins games in the second.
Michelli, outside right, scored
after fifty-seven minutes with a suspicion of offside. The England players
checked their stride, expecting the whistle, when he cut through the
middle to take the Mendez pass. Taylor was twice bundled by sandwiched
tackles when on the point of shooting. Penalties would have been given at
home. But the extra goal by Grillo was no more than the locals
deserved.
On the substitution of Mendez, Walter Winterbottom,
England team manager, said: "It is allowed under international law and
there is nothing you can do about it." He added: "Our players just didn't
start to play. They were a poor side on the day. The opposition are
first-class players."
The English tactics of shoulder charges and hard
tackling and bustling the goalkeeper brought storms of boos but no
incidents.
Hundreds of armed and sabred police were on duty. President
Peron saw the match screened by a bodyguard. He left the stadium jubilant
and was given a stupendous ovation from the crowd. The English colony here
are absolutely downcast. England played without such international stars
as Finney, Lofthouse, Ramsey, and there will be five or six changes for
the full international match against Argentina on Sunday. Count only
Dickinson, Eckersley, Wright and Taylor as without blame and be sure that
such as Finney, Broadis, Ramsey, Dickinson will be in the team for Sunday.
Losing the opening match with a reserve
team is bad enough, but if we lose the full international match we might
as well just shut up shop and go home.
|
THE SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR. For the
exacting tour of South America the 11 that drew with Scotland were
augmented by Ditchburn, Garrett, Johnston, Barlow, Bentley, Berry and
Taylor. Smith later withdrew because of injury and was replaced by
Eckersley, and after his brilliant display in the Cup-Final, Matthews was
also asked to join the party but had to refuse through unfitness.
The tour began with something of a shock when an F.A. XI, including the
players who were unlikely to be in the full England side against
Argentina, was outplayed to the tune of 3 goals to 1 by a Buenos Aires XI
- in actual fact, this was the same team that played as Argentina three
days later. However, Eckersley, Taylor and Berry emerged with sufficient
credit to gain promotion.
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