THE BEST FOOTBALLERS
Eight, countries have so far entered for the World Association Football Cup competition, to be held, in Italy next year (states an exchange). The organisers expect a total entry of twenty-four teams. • The competition will last » fortnight or so, and, as the expenses will be heavy—some of of the teams coining from South America—good attendances will be needed to prevent; financial loss. Speculation as to the result has induced many Continental football authorities to make ranking, lists of the nations, whether or not +hey will compete in the "world" tournament. A. composite classification made from these lists
gives first place to Great Britain, th» compilers not taking account of tha respective merits of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Uruguay, winner of the Olympic Games tournaments in 1924 and 1928, and of the first "world" competition held at Montevideo in 1930, is a close secondhand Australia just as close a third. Thera is, in fact, difficulty, in ''separating these three countries. Argentina follows, and then Italy (England's opponents in Rome next May); Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Holland, ■" Spain, Brazil, Germany, France, Switzerland, and a dozen other countries in do* seending order of merit.!
THE BEST FOOTBALLERS
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 6
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