The tenth edition of the

South American Championship A South American Championship is a top level international sports competition between South American athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. List of Championships * ATP Buenos Aires, a tennis ...

was held in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

, from 12 October to 3 November 1926.

Overview

The participating countries were

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

, and

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

withdrew for the second time (being the first time in

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), and it also was the first time Bolivia took part in the event.

Squads

For a complete list of participants squads see: ''

1926 South American Championship squads The following squads were named for the 1926 South American Championship that took place in Chile. Argentina * Octavio Díaz * Ludovico Bidoglio * Roberto Cochrane * Ángel Médici * Ramon Muttis * Silvestre Conti * Mario Fortunato * Gabino Sosa ...

Final round

Each team plays one match against each of the other teams. Two points are awarded for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a defeat.

''Chile made the first corner-kick goal in Tournament's History.''

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Result

Goal scorers

7 goals *

David Arellano David Alfonso Arellano Moraga (29 July 1901 – 3 May 1927) was a Chilean footballer and founder of the Colo Colo football club. A winger, he scored in the 1926 South American Championship (Copa América) and is considered one of the best Chilea ...

6 goals *

Héctor Castro Agustín Héctor Castro Rodríguez (29 November 1904 – 15 September 1960) was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He scored Uruguay's first ever goal in a World Cup against Peru at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 a tournament they wo ...

Héctor Scarone José Juan Héctor Scarone Berreta (26 November 1898 – 4 April 1967) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as inside forward. Scarone was considered one of the best players in the world during his time,. being nicknamed ''El Mago'' ("the Magic ...

5 goals *

Gabino Sosa Gabino Sosa (4 October 1899 – 3 March 1971) was an Argentine football forward who spent all his career for Central Córdoba de Rosario, playing 24 years for the club.Roberto Cherro Roberto Eugenio Cerro, named "Cherro" (23 February 1907 – 11 October 1965) was an Argentine football striker. He was born in Barracas in the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He played the majority of his career with Boca Juniors, he scor ...

Benjamín Delgado Benjamín Delgado (1 June 1897 – 4 November 1953) was an Argentine footballer. He played in nine matches for the Argentina national football team from 1923 to 1926. He was also part of Argentina's squad for the 1926 South American Champio ...

Pablo Ramírez Pablo Ramírez is a Mexican Spanish language, Spanish-language sportscaster in the United States. Born in Sinaloa, Ramírez grew up in Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico. Ramírez primarily provides Spanish-language commentary for football (soccer) matche ...

2 goals * De Miguel *

Guillermo Subiabre Guillermo Subiabre Astorga (25 February 1903 – 11 April 1964) was a Chilean association football, footballer. During his career he played for Colo-Colo (1927–1934), Santiago Wanderers, and the Chile national football team. He also participat ...

* Carlos Ramírez * Borjas * Zoilo Saldombide 1 goal *

Domingo Tarasconi Domingo Alberto Tarasconi (20 December 1903 – 3 July 1991) was an Argentine football forward. Raising from Club Atlético Atlanta, he played most of his career for Boca Juniors where he won 9 official titles and became the all-time 4th. He was ...

* Teófilo Aguilar * Carlos Soto * Humberto Moreno *

Manuel Fleitas Solich Manuel Fleitas Solich (30 December 1900 – 24 March 1984) was a Paraguayan football player and coach. He was known as "El Brujo" (the Wizard). Career as a player Fleitas Solich played for Club Nacional of Paraguay where he won two Paraguayan ...

* Ildefonso López * Luis Vargas Peña *

Ángel Romano Alfredo Ángel Romano (2 August 1893 – 22 August 1972) was a Uruguayan professional football (soccer), footballer. A Striker (association football), striker, he played 70 games for Uruguay national football team, his national team between 1911 ...

External links

South American Championship 1926 at RSSSF
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