1925 South American Championship



The ninth South American Championship was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 29 November to 25 December 1925.

In 1925, the participating countries were Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Chile and Uruguay withdrew from the tournament, making this event the one with the fewest participating teams. The tournament was rescheduled to be held in two rounds.

Argentina won its second continental title.

Squads
For a complete list of participants squads see: 1925 South American Championship squads

Final round
Each team played two matches against each of the other teams. Two points were awarded for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a defeat.

Goal scorers
6 goals
 * 🇦🇷 Manuel Seoane

4 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Lagarto
 * 🇧🇷 Nilo

2 goals


 * 🇧🇷 Arthur Friedenreich
 * 🇵🇾 Gerardo Rivas

1 goal


 * 🇦🇷 Antonio Cerrotti
 * 🇦🇷 Alfredo Garasini
 * 🇦🇷 Juan C. Irurieta
 * 🇦🇷 Martín Sánchez
 * 🇦🇷 Domingo Tarasconi
 * 🇧🇷 Filo
 * 🇵🇾 Manuel Fleitas Solich
 * 🇵🇾 Luis Fretes

Aftermath
Despite having won the tournament unbeaten, part of the Argentine media considered the team's performance as "poor", highlighting that Argentina was the winner only because of being stronger than the other two participants. Argentine magazine El Gráfico stated Argentina's virtues were decreasing as the competition went by, with such notable failures.

Centre forward Juan Carlos Irurieta was injured in the first match, being replaced by Manuel Seoane, who did not play as good as he used to be because of his change of position (from left insider to centre forward). The media criticised hardly the performances of Garasini, Alejandro de los Santos, Antonio Cerrotti and Juan Bianchi. On the other hand, Domingo Tarasconi, Seoane and Martín Sánchez were mentioned as the most remarkable players. In the case of Tarasconi, his efficient dribbling, passing style and accurate corner kicks were widely praised. Seoane's goalscoring prowess was also mentioned as one of the high points of Argentina, setting a record with six goals in four matches. Nevertheless, Seoane was also criticised for being out of shape due to his overweight.

Another Argentine player harshly criticised was goalkeeper Américo Tesoriere:

(Tesoriere) is not the "magician of the goal" that we admired so much due to his security, courage, cold blood, surprising agility and unsurpassed sense of location. Although the rival did not attack so much, he conceded four goals, which were not hard-to-stop shots. Apart from the goals received, Tesoriere's showed himself insecure and slow, which could have been worse. Undoubtedly, we don't mean that his performance was disastrous, but we do want to set he is having a tough time in his sports career either his debacle is approaching...