Two different balls participated in the final match of the very first World Cup. The national teams of Argentina and Uruguay could not agree on which ball to play for so long that they decided to play the match with two balls. In the first time, we played with a ball that the Argentines liked. It was made in Scotland and called Tiento. And in the second half of the meeting, they played with a shell that the hosts of the tournament liked. This ball was made in England and called the T-Model.
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The 1930 World Cup in Uruguay was the first official international championship held by FIFA. All matches were held in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, where a stadium for 90,000 spectators was built specifically for the tournament. The national teams of Uruguay and Argentina met in the final. It is interesting that in the first half, the teams played Tiento ball, which was won by Argentina, and the team of Uruguay was losing 1:2. In the second half, a T-Model ball entered the field, which the host team of the championship liked. Over the next 45 minutes, the Uruguayans scored 3 goals and won the first FIFA World Cup with a score of 4:2.
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