Background The tournament was marked by the strong dispute between the
Argentine Football Association (AFA) and dissident
Asociación Amateurs de Football (AAmF, formed one year before). The AAmF had received an invitation from the
Football Federation of Chile to play a tournament in that country. Most of the
Big Five (with the exception of
Boca Juniors) were affiliated to AAmF, which had 20 teams competing in
their own championship. After the AAmF accepted the invitation, some of its most prominent players trip to Chile by train.
Manuel Seoane, Humberto Recanatini, Luis Célico, Cándido García, Albérico Zabaleta, were among them. The invitation was taken as a pure provocation by the AFA, which requested
South American Football Confederation (CSF) the FFCh to be punished.
Tournament The inaugural match between Argentina and Brazil was attended by 30,000 spectators (although the maximum capacity of
Estadio Sportivo Barracas was 22,000) due to reselling ticket for twice or more its original value. Brazil came into the field with no black players because they had been banned after a
suggestion from the President of Brazil,
Epitácio Pessoa. Therefore
Arthur Friedenreich, considered the first star of Brazilian football, was not part of that team. Argentina won 1–0 with a goal scored by Julio Libonatti. The final was attended by near 40,000 people, who were at the stadium three hours prior to the start. Argentina beat Uruguay 1–0 in the last match and won the competition after earning the most points (6 in 3 games). When the match ended, the players of both teams were raised by the crowd that had entered to the pitch and carried them to the hotel where the Argentine stayed during the competition, sited on the corner of Florida and Cangallo streets. Argentina won all the games without conceding any goal, helped by the good performance of goalkeeper
Américo Tesoriere, one of the most notable footballers of the team along with Julio Libonatti, who scored three goals (one per match). == Aftermath ==