On July 19, 1930, Carlos Vidal of Chile took the first penalty kick in World Cup history, with France’s Alexis “Alex” Thépot in goal. The shot was stopped, making French goalie Alexis “Alex” Thépot the FIRST to stop a penalty shot. On July 19, 1930, Manuel Rosas of Mexico scored the FIRST penalty goal against Argentina.
1930 Argentina – Mexico
During the match between Argentina and Mexico on July 19, 1930, in Montevideo, Mexican goalkeeper Oscar Bonfiglio extends before Guillermo Stábile’s shot. In Qatar 2022 this Saturday, Argentina and Mexico will decide all or most of their futures. the round of 16 in South Africa (2010) and Germany (2006), both amid controversy. Only a small percentage of people are aware that these two nations also hosted the World Cup matches with the fairest play.
It took place in Uruguay in 1930 during the first World Cup. Even though it was in his team’s favour and detrimental to the opposition, an Argentine soccer player purposefully missed a penalty to avoid capitalising on what he felt was a poorly handled infraction by the referee. He did not have any intention of scoring, like a standard bearer of the movement.
It was the first penalty saved by a Mexican goalkeeper in a World Cup since Bonfiglio of Sonora accomplished that achievement 92 years prior when Guillermo Ochoa drowned the goal of the Pole Robert Lewandowski on Tuesday from 11 metres.
The Mexican goalie in Uruguay in 1930 was the first to do so in a World Cup, according to an additional fact that was false in this instance. In reality, the goalkeeper made the save two hours earlier, during the game that kicked off the double shift set for July 19. Guillermo Saavedra of Chile attempted a penalty in the Centenario stadium, but French goalkeeper Alex Thépot already saved it.
The fact that Paternoster purposefully performed his penalty as a pass to the opposing goalkeeper, Bonfiglio, in the last game that day, Argentina 6 – Mexico 3, is even more mysterious. Eduardo Cantaro, an Argentine historian, acknowledges and supports this in his book. 23 minutes into the game, Paternoster was denied a penalty by Bonfiglio.
The Argentine player hurled it into the goalkeeper’s hands because he disagreed with the punishment imposed by the referee. That penalty fit the first World Cup’s rules and the style of football at the time” Cantaro explains. As an illustration, there weren’t enough referees. Ulises Saucedo, the technical director of Bolivia’s World Cup team, served as the match’s referee, and Constantin Radulescu, the head coach of Romania’s tournament team, was one of the linesmen, or what is now known as assistants, in that match between Argentina and Mexico, he recalls.
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Julio Macias, a well-known Argentine soccer historian, provides further context by saying: “Manuel Ferreira, who had travelled to Buenos Aires, was absent from that match, thus the goalie Ngel Bosio served as the Argentine captain. The reconstruction of a move that exits Paternoster, also known as the Marquis, by a game and a penalty for which there are no audio-visual records.
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