Tournament details | |
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Host country | France |
City | Paris |
Dates | 24–29 July |
Teams | 8 |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 13 |
Goals scored | 87 (6.69 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() ![]() (7 goals) |
Football at the Inter-Allied Games was an unofficial football event organized by the United States military and the YMCA. It took place in June 1919, a year after the cessation of hostilities on the western front, and all the matches were played at the newly constructed Stade Pershing in Paris. The tournament featured some of Europe's top players. The Inter-Allied Games is the first football tournament, official or otherwise, with national teams from two different continents. [1]
For this tournament, were invited teams from all the countries who had been on the winning side in the war as to celebrate their victory. Eight national teams participated in the competition: Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, hosts France, Greece, Italy, Romania and the United States. [1]
Czechoslovakia, whose participation in the Allied-Games represented the first major international sporting appearance for the newly created nation, went on to make a memorable campaign, winning the tournament and finishing unbeaten. [1] Along with Czechoslovakia, the Allied-Games was also the first taste of international football to Romania and Greece, but because the matches played in Paris are not recognized by FIFA or the International Olympic Committee, and therefore, they are not considered official international matches, the countries official debuts only came at the 1920 Olympics, [2] for Romania came in 1922 and for Greece it only came 10 years later, in 1929.[ citation needed ]
The venue was the newly constructed Stade Pershing in Paris, a gift to France from the American people.[ citation needed ]
for the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, 1919.
According to the regulations, [3] the athletes who could take part in the competitions were those in active military service in the armies of the Allied countries or who had been in military service in the armies of the Allied countries during the War, and a significant number of players of the highest level met these criteria, many of whom being players of the national teams, which means that this tournament featured some of Europe's top players. The Winning Forces of WWI assembled football teams for this tournament, resulting in 8 participants:[ citation needed ]
The 8 teams were organized into two groups of four. Each team played each other once and each team was awarded 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw, and 0 for a loss, and the winners of the groups would meet in the final, where the winner of the tournament would be determined. [1]
Group A contained France, Italy, Greece and Romania while the other consisted of the United States, Canada, Czechoslovakia and Belgium. In Group A, both France and Italy defeated Greece and Romania comfortably, meaning that the ticket to the final would be decided between them in the last match of the group, which was won by France 2–0, thus finishing the group without conceding a single goal, in part thanks to the good performances of their goalkeeper Pierre Chayriguès. Greece was trashed 0–9 and 0–11 by Italy and France respectively, conceding a poker in both games to Luigi Cevenini and Paul Nicolas. The latter also netted twice against Romania and his side's second against Italy to bring his goal tally up to seven. [2]
In group B, the fate of the first place was decided in the very first match between Czechoslovakia and Belgium, a kind of "rehearsal" of the 1920 Olympic final, which ended in a 4–1 win to the Czechs. [lower-alpha 1] Czech forwards Antonin Janda and Jan Vaník also found the back of the net in all three matches of the group stage, with Janda netting once in a 4–1 win over Belgium, and twice against both Canada (3–2) and the USA (8–2), thus helping his side top the group and reach the final at the expense of Belgium. They would both score in the final against France as well. [2]
The most dramatic games of the whole tournament were the ones that decided the third spot of each group, a Balkanize derby between Greece and Romania in group A and an American derby between the USA and Canada in group B, and while the former finished with a 3–2 victory to a Greece team that had conceded twenty goals without reply in their two previous games, [2] the later saw Canada lead 4–1, but, as the newspaper Le Liberte pointed out: "...from that moment it began to rain from free kicks and penalties fixed by the American referee of the match in favor of their compatriots". [9] As a result, the US team celebrated a 5–4 victory. [1] The performance of the United States team at the games was not the best as they won only a single game while finishing with a minus-12 goal difference, however, the U.S. team acquitted itself pretty well considering that the American Expeditionary Forces Championship seemed to give little attention to building the strongest possible squad. [2]
Ultimately, Czechoslovakia and France met in the final and after a close match, the Czechs took home the silverware with a 3–2 win. [1]
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | +17 | 6 | Final |
![]() | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 3 | +13 | 4 | |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 22 | −19 | 2 | |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 0 |
Italy ![]() | 7 – 1 | ![]() |
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Ermanno Aebi ![]() Cevenini ![]() ![]() | Report | Mares ![]() |
One source report a match between Greece and Serbia. However, there is very little evidence of the match and if it did happen, it was most likely a friendly match and not part of the tournament. The game ended in a 5–1 victory for the Greeks or a 2–0 forfeit for the Greeks. [10]
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | +10 | 6 | Final |
![]() | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 4 | |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 19 | −12 | 2 | |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 13 | −5 | 0 |
United States ![]() | 5 – 4 | ![]() |
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![]() | Report | ![]() |
Czechoslovakia ![]() | 8 – 2 | ![]() |
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Janda ![]() Pilát ![]() Vaník ![]() Sedláček ![]() Prošek ![]() | Report | ![]() |
Czechoslovakia ![]() | 3 – 2 | ![]() |
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Janda ![]() Vaník ![]() | Report | ![]() |
Belgium ![]() | 7 – 0 | ![]() |
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![]() | Report |
The final took place on 29 June in front of a crowd that packed the big stadium. The hosts had their line-up greatly strengthened with the addition of the Gastiger brothers (Maurice and Pierre); however, both teams were forced to make substitutions: After a tough match with the Italians, the French had to change five players, while the Czechoslovak team made two, and also made a shocking shift in their regular line-up by putting Antonín Janda in the backline while a new man, Jaroslav Červený, replaced him on the forward line. [1] However, this change did not pay off as the French took a 2-0 lead with goals from Paul Deydier and Albert Rénier. [1] The Czechs found themselves trailing 2–1 at half-time, and therefore, the second half saw Janda back in his regular position and from then on the team hit its stride, but France strongly contested the Czechoslovak bid for supremacy, and soon, the contest developed into a battle between the Czechoslovak forward line and the French defense, a scenario that proved to be perfect for France's goalkeeper, Pierre Chayriguès to shine, as he put up a spectacular game and electrified the stands with his brilliant stops. [1] However, with less than 10 minutes to go, Janda found an equalizer. He seemed to have just forced extra-time, however, just 5 minutes later, he nets the winner past Chayriguès to give his side a 3–2 win over the hosts. Besides the wonderful work of Janda, the shifty playing of Václav Pilát at the center was also a big factor in the eventual 3-2 victory. [1]
The Czechoslovakian team was built around a nucleus of players from Slavia Prague, who was schooled for 25 years by a former Scotch international player, Johnny Madden, and he watched his team triumph from the side-lines. There were no more passionate fans present than the American soldiers and at the conclusion of the game they carried the hard-working Janda from the field on their shoulders. Janda, by his aggressiveness and good sportsmanship, became one of the most popular players of the tournament. [1] Later when arrangements were being made for Sparta to tour the United States in 1926, the terms of the contract reportedly stipulated for Janda to be included in the team even though he had not featured regularly for Sparta in the past two seasons. [2]
France ![]() | 2–3 | ![]() |
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Deydier ![]() Rénier ![]() | Report | Vanik ![]() Janda ![]() |
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There were 87 goals scored in 13 matches, for an average of 6.69 goals per match.
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# | Player | G | For | Result | Against | Phase | Date | Report |
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1. | Luigi Cevenini | 4 | ![]() | 9–0 | ![]() | Group stage | 25 June 1919 | Report |
2. | Paul Nicolas | 5 | ![]() | 11–0 | 26 June 1919 | |||
3. | Albert Rénier | 3 |
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