1934 WORLD CUP - THE MOST RIGGED WORLD CUP OF ALL TIME?

the 1934 World Cup was stupid it's the second edition of the World Cup and it definitely ranks in the top three of most controversial two years prior in 1932 the hosting rights of the World Cup was awarded to Italy Benito melini's fascist Italy musolini wanted the World Cup in his Nation to promote Italy strength as a political regime both on and off the field and the Italian government granted a budget of 3.5 million L to the tournament which if you know anything about lra is about £4 in today's money now you're going to hear a lot of allegedly in this video and allegedly Italy used intimidation and some dodgy dealings to get this over the line however Italy's only competition to host the World Cup was Sweden and the southern European nations promised to FIFA that they'd underwrite any Financial losses and the fact they had better stadiums in a wider range of cities swayed the votes towards them those cities included chin Milan genua deste bologna Florence Rome and and Naples just the seven more than the 1930 World Cup this was actually the first World Cup with qualification stages because unlike the 1930 World Cup more nations were actually interested in playing given the success of the first edition 12 of the 16 places were allocated to Europe three to the Americas and one to Africa or Asia there were 21 nations from Europe vying for those 15 spots including Italy who were the only host ever to have actually gone through a qualification process there were four from South America but not including Uruguay who refused to go because of the fuss caused by European nations not wanting to play in 1930 the one Asian and African group consisted of Egypt turkey and Palestine British mandate the Forerunner of the Israeli National Team and made up nearly entirely of xat Brads also four teams from Central America looked to qualify in European qualifying there were five groups of three and three groups of two in their two- team group Czechoslovakia beat Poland 2-1 away from home however Poland were denied visas for the second leg by their own government and Czechoslovakia were awarded a 2-nil win win in the final game of group eight Yugoslavia only needed a draw against Romania to qualify they lost 2-1 and hit the woodwork eight times in a game refereed by Future FIFA president Stanley rals the Netherlands beat Belgium 4-2 with both qualifying after the result as the Irish fre State now Republic of Ireland missed out on qualification by one goal and finally after Italy beat Greece 4-0 in their group game Greece's response to his second game was no in South America Brazil and Peru were to Face Off as were Argentina and Chile but in solidarity with Uruguay Peru and Chile both withdrew meaning Brazil and Argentina qualified without any trouble turkey withdrew from the Asia African group as Egypt beat Palestine British mandates with an 11-2 aggregate win could have gone either way Lads however the most dramatic group stage definitely came from conquer calf here's the story Cuba beat Haiti 10 to an aggregate between three legs for some reason went on to face Mexico between three legs for some reason and Mexico won 12 three on aggregat qualifying for the World Cup so they thought incredibly late the USA decided they wanted to play in the World Cup and in a one-off match USA be Mexico 4-2 thanks to Aldo denelli scoring all four in Rome 3 days before the World Cup began therefore the participants in the 1934 World Cup were Sweden Spain Italy Hungary Austria Czechoslovakia Romania Switzerland the Netherlands Belgium Germany France the USA Egypt Brazil and Argentina the 1934 World Cup had a new format there were no group stages just a straight knockout and there were eight seeded sides who were all kept apart in the first round only 15 players from the 1930 World Cup showed up in 1934 an incredibly low number was some of them even playing for a different Nation Argentina and Brazil selected heavily depleted squads for this world cup with Argentina especially worried that Italy May potentially convince more of their players of Italian descent known as orandi to play for the aoui as they automatically how dual citizenship under the fascist government every round of 16 game is played at the same time so we'll start having chur in with one of the heavy World Cup favorites Hugo miso's Austrian vunda team as they face France inside the stadio Bonito musolini Austria had won the central European Cup two years prior and had scored 97 goals in their previous 29 games starting from 1931 this was a side heavily influenced by Jimmy Hogan and his original Total Football style in their side was not only freak goal scorer yosf bsan who According to some Source has scored over 950 goals in his career but but their star player was the mo of football Matias cindel in their four3 defeat to England in 1932 one journalist said about cindel no one else no one before him and no one after him could possibly have scored against opponents as good as England France's manager was Englishman George kton the man credited with introducing the famous WM formation to the French he asked one of his players George Vias to individually Mark cindel you can follow cindel everywhere even to the toilet he said anyway in the game Jean Nicholas who had just come off the back of a 54g goal season in France's League du for FC ran gave France the lead before Cinder equalized just before half time the game went into extra time as Austria ran out 3-2 winners with batan scoring the decisive goal Spain faced Brazil inside the stadia Luigi Ferraris in genua Brazil's 19 man squad had a combined 11 caps between them so is no surprise that the game ended 3-1 to Spain although Brazil's goal scorer Leonidas would create World Cup history later on Hungary faced Egypt inside the stadio ppeo in Naples the hungarians were without their star man Yori sarosi but they still ran out 4 two winners Egypt's Abdul ramman FY scored twice in the game becoming the first African scorer to the World Cup although it could have been a hat-trick when the game was 2-2 my colleague FY took the ball from the center and dribble past all the Hungarian players to score a third goal but the referee canceled the goal as an offside according to Egypt's goalkeeper Mustafa Mansour Switzerland beat the Netherlands 3-2 inside the sanero refereed by Ivan Eckland a few alleged leads about him later in front of the largest crowd of the round of 33,000 Leo keal scored a brace for Switzerland whilst wearing glasses fair play he walked so Edgar Davis could run oh and the Netherlands goalkeeper Kus vaner Merlin went on to join the SS in 1942 he was sent to prison for it in 1947 pardoned in 1949 and nobody wanted to talk to him after Czechoslovakia beat Romania 2-1 inside the stadio Lorio in triest inside the stadio Giovanni Berto in Florence Germany beat Belgium 5-2 thanks to Edmund Conan's hattrick on his debut Sweden came back from 21 down to beat Argentina 3-2 the 1930 finalist ironically managed by an Italian fipe asuchi only had two players with any International experience so 3-2 wasn't an awful result something I forgot to mention is the fact Puchi is the youngest manager in World Cup history coaching Argentina at this world cup aged 26 finally Italy faced the USA inside the sto natal Del PNF in Rome attempting to look like a man of the people musolini queued for his ticket just like everyone else then he made his way to the tribuna dinor to sit with the royal family out of their entire 22-man Squad Italy had seven orandi play for them four from Argentina one from France one from Brazil and one from Austria Hungary most notable of all was Lis Monte one of Argentina's main players who played in the 1930 World Cup final was now playing for Italy gols from rundo Ori Giovani Ferrari the great decep Miata and an Angelo scavio hatrick gave Italy a comfortable 7-1 win over the US with denelli giving them a consolation goal 31st of May was the day all quarterfinals were played so we'll start off inside the sanso as a staggering 3,000 people watch Germany versus Sweden a match with Heavy Rain the game only got interesting in the second half left half erns Anderson went off with a head injury taking Switzerland down to 10 men with Germany capitalizing K hman scored a 3-minute brace taking the Germans into the semis with a 2-1 victory in Turin Czechoslovakia beat Switzerland in a back and forth 32 Classic this was czechoslovakia's 50th win in International Football meanwhile Austria faced Hungary in what should have been a higher quality game than it was although Austria came into the World Cup as one of the favorites after their central European International cup Triumph Mel was rightfully pessimistic about his side not only did he believe his vunda team but passed their best he was without First Choice keeper Rudy heden this match was apparently quite a tight violent but disappointing game at 2-1 to Austria Hungary were essentially down to 9 men as IMR Marcos was red carded and isvan avar picked up an injury reminder there were no substitutes and 2-1 was how it remained now for a little bit of chaos Italy faced Spain in Florence and the game that resulted in a one or Draw the first draw in World Cup history was brutal Italy's equalizer by G Ian Ferrari was originally disallowed after scavio intentionally blocked off Samora Spain's goalkeeper but the referee allegedly just changed his mind in more brutal Affairs Mario Piolo of Italy had his leg broken and would never play for the aouri again multiple Spanish players had to go off due to injury and their goalkeeper Ricardo zamuro was so battered he missed the replay the very next day in the replay Spain allegedly should have had a penalty inside 5 minutes and they also had two goals disallowed one for offside and one the referee pulled back for a free kick to Spain yeah explain that one jeppi Miata scored the only goal of the game after the 11th minute as Italy held on for a 1-nil victory and referee Renee meret had such a good game he was banned for life when he returned home in Rome Czechoslovakia faced Germany in the semi-finals where one man stole the headlines much like Austria and their vunda team Czechoslovakia were pupils of the danubian school of football their passing slick and short often made them incredibly difficult opponents and German well they found out the hard way Czechoslovakia dominated the first half with aldri nedley the man who scored the winner in the quarters giving them the lead and then adding two more completing his hat-trick in the second half in a 3-1 win however in between the first and second Headley goals Germany equalized 17 minutes into the second half through fascinating character Rudolph Noak an incredible goal scorer and dribbler the Hamburg forward with a tattoo of a naked woman on his arm was deemed unreliable by the Nazis a political organization he wasn't particularly keen on which is one of the reasons he only played three times for his Nation a former teammate of his stated Rudy was The Fanatic for justice he did not take any orders by anyone and openly stated his views both of us were no Communists but we did not like the Nazis that was a reputation that we had irin sailor father of the great U even called Noak better than maradon regarding his skill on the ball now Italy got a lot of slander for this world cup so I want to talk about their side and how good they genuinely were Italy were a very tactically astute side led by tyin native Victoria poo poo was a love of the English game after his time in Manchester and started his game off what he saw at Manchester United wanting to play in the traditional Anglo 235 or the WM he liked his Center half to be able to make long passes out wide and show creativity in Lis Monty he didn't have this however what he did have in Monty was somebody incredibly fit therefore potso turned him into a central mediano dropping deep and marking the striker out of possession then becoming an attacking Outlet in possession this meant the WM was altered into more of a ww their incredibly threatening attack of of raymunda wari jph Miata and Angelos scavio made Italy another one of the favorites early on managers Mel and poo were incredibly good friends and according to the International Federation of football history and statistics Mel protested against Italy's aundi section playing but these protests were shut down when the semi-finals pitted Italy and the vunder team against each other inside the sanso misel and Poo's great friendship would be put to one side unfortunately it's another Italy game marred by controversy allegedly referee for the semi-final Ivan Eckland had dinner with none other than melini the night before the game and reports claim that some interesting decisions did go in Italy's favor the Italians were very physical during the game and a torrential downpour did not benefit Austria in their passing game after some rough housing on the Austrian goalkeeper the ball fell to Enrique Gita who slaughtered the ball home although some reports claimed that it was clearly offside although refereeing decisions may not have gone in Austria's favor not making the final may have just been down to great goalkeeping and poor finishing as according to reports goalkeeper janier Combi made made nearly two dozen saves for the aouri Italy won 1-0 and the final was set Italy versus Czechoslovakia but before that the third place playoff Austria versus Germany loser gets annexed allegedly due to the Clash of colors Austria scored a light blue shirt borrowed from Napoli where the game was being played Germany's Ern laner scored inside 25 seconds the fastest goal of the tournament and with what sounded like a thrilling game Germany won 3-2 their third goal coming after Carl cester of Austria attempted to sit on the ball to confuse a German player now for the big one the finale host Italy versus Czechoslovakia in Rome and once again Eckland was appointed as referee for the game but In fairness regarding his performance in the final ekland doesn't really have much said against him Czechoslovakia made one change from their win against Germany whereas Italy remained unchanged much like the 1934 World Cup as a whole the game was brutal and the pace of the game was probably not helped by the fact the temperature was reached reaching 40° C in Rome now in the 69th minute check forward anonin P was either a knocked out cold by atio Ferraris and needed some SM insults to come back to his senses or B was suffering from cramp either way he had to go off the pitch and when he came back on he received the ball after a corner and a shot rifled past Italy's goalkeeper and Captain kbi 1-0 to Czechoslovakia now one n down Italy rallied stepped up another gear and found their equalizer quickly through Raymundo wari a goal FIFA to as one of the most legendary goals in the history of the FIFA World Cup as the final headed to extra time poo who incredibly sat beside the check goal for the game made a tactical switch sopping gaita and scavio around and it worked just 5 minutes after extra time began Miata clearly in pain crossed the ball into Gita who gave the ball to scavio and with his back to goal spun the defender and blasted the ball into the far Corner Italy W to1 winning the World Cup for the first time after the game was a huge ceremony as the fascist anthem giov ETA played and not only were Italy handed the Jules R trophy but they also won the coopa deluche named after the megalomaniac himself the Copa deluche was six times the size of the Jules Rome Trophy and poor Piolo the lad who broke his leg against Spain wouldn't receive his Winner's medal until 1988 54 years after he won it and just two years before he died with 45 different goal scorers 70 goals were scored in the 1934 World Cup the same amount as four years prior and in less games ending with an average of 4.12 goals per game finally alri nedley of Czechoslovakia to the scoring charts with five goals drop a like And subscribe if you've enjoyed thanks for watching

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Published: Sat Mar 02 2024