With our people in Paris 2024: Uruguay, world champion for the first time in 1924

Special sports program on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. teleSUR

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00:00To honor the promise to take his team to Paris 2024, Atilio Narancio, president of the Uruguayan

00:09Football Association, mortgaged his home.

00:12But the adventure of the first South American representative in the Olympic football also

00:17involved a blank check signed by Numa Pesquera, president of the national club.

00:23The blue team left for France in third-class cabins without coach or physical trainer.

00:28The players took the responsibility under the tutelage of their captain, Jose Nasazi.

00:35The motivation was higher because before the games began, the FIFA congress in Paris took

00:40over the organization of the Olympic football tournaments and they assumed as world champions.

00:47Without a single reference for their rivals, they went to the field to demonstrate La Rioplatense

00:53football played flush with the ground with dominated ball which keep them on the top

00:58of South America.

00:59In the debut, they crushed Yugoslavia 7 against 0 and them, categorical 3 against 0 over the

01:06US.

01:07In the quarter-finals, they were in front of the most fierce rivals, the locals, France,

01:12the favorite of all to seal 5 against 1 that surprised all Europe.

01:18The semi-final was a great challenge with the Netherlands, but in the complement, Pedro

01:22Osea and Héctor Escarone turned it around.

01:25In the final against Switzerland on June 9, more than 40,000 people parched the Columbus

01:31Stadium on June 9.

01:33Pedro Petrone, Pedro Osea and Ángel Romano sentenced the 3 against 0 to stay with the

01:39gold medal and the title first world football champion.

01:43The players tore the perimeter of the field to celebrate as in defeat with 20 goals in

01:48favor and only 2 against.

01:50Since then and forever, that celebration will be called Olympic lap.