1957 South American Championship


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 as one of the best squads in its history, and the first "legendary team" of Argentina since its inception in 1901. The attacking line was composed of Omar Corbatta, Humberto Maschio, Antonio Angelillo, Enrique Sívori and Osvaldo Cruz. Beyond its virtues and high goalscoring, 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 had won other South American competitions before, the 1957 Sudamericano was the first Argentine achievement with a great repercusion 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 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, did not called them for the national team considering that "we are plenty of players here".

Squads

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

Venues

Final round

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

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Result

Goalscorers

A total of 33 different players scored 101 goals in the tournament. None of them is credited as own goal.
9 Goals
8 Goals
5 Goals
4 Goals
3 Goals
2 Goals
1 Goal