Sports Weekend
“Stories from the world of Romanian sports – The way to Montevideo.
Florin Orban, 10.04.2020, 13:45
Almost 90 years ago, more precisely between July 13 and 30, 1930 the world watched the first edition of the World Football Cup hosted by Uruguay. Romania’s eleven was among the 13 teams that took part in the competition.
On April 10, 1930 Bucharest received, by telegraph, the official confirmation of the Romanian team being registered in the competition. Other European countries that participated in the Football Cup were France, Belgium and Yugoslavia. America was represented by Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Mexico and the US.
On June 16, 1930, at the North Station in Bucharest, the Romanian delegation made up of 15 players and 5 officials boarded the train leading to Genoa, where they boarded the Conte Verde transatlantic liner.
The Romanian team included goal keepers Jean Lăpuşneanu and Samuel Zauber, full-backs Adalbert Steiner, Rudolf Bürger, Iosif Czako, halfbacks Alfred Eisenbeisser, Ladislau Rafinschi, Emerich Vogl and Corneliu Robe and attackers Adalbert Deşu, Nicolae Covaci, Constantin Stanciu, Ştefan Barbu, Ilie Subăşeanu and Rudolf Wetzer.
The Romanian delegation traveled to Italy in 3 second-class train compartments. On June 19 the Romanian delegation boarded the Conte Verde, a transatlantic liner of 36 thousand tons, heading for Montevideo. But more on the Romanian delegation seafaring to Uruguay, in the next edition of the series “Stories from the world of Romanian sports — The way to Montevideo”. (translation by L. Simion)
