WHich US soccer player captained the first World Cup Match victory?
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Tom Florie, who played inside left, captained the US team in all three matches they played at the inaugural World Cup in 1930 in Uruguay.
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USA 1994, match between Brazil and Italy
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Lucien Laurent of France scored the first ever World Cup goal in Uruguay 1930
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The first Fifa World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930. The final match featured Uruguay against Argentina. The hosts (Uruguay) won the match 4-2 to capture the first World Cup trophy.
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(m)\n\nThe first Football World Cup was staged in 1930. The games were awarded to Uruguay as they were the Olympic champions at the time and since they were celebrating the centenary of their independence. As well as being the first ever hosts, Uruguay also became the inaugural champions, beating Argentina in the final, 4-2.\n\nThe first World Cup was the only one without qualification; teams were invited. Due to the long and costly trip across the Atlantic, very few European teams chose to participate; two months before the tournament started, no team from that continent had officially entered. FIFA's president, Jules Rimet, intervened, along with the Uruguayan government, which promised to pay the travel expenses of any travelling European team. Eventually four teams made the three-week sea trip: Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia.\n\nThe thirteen teams were drawn into four groups, with all the games taking place in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. Since there were no qualifying games, the opening two matches of the tournament were also the first ever World Cup games, taking place simultaneously on July 13th; France beat Mexico 4-1, while the USA defeated Belgium 3-0 at the same time in Estadio Gran Parque Central. France's Lucien Laurent was the scorer of the first ever World Cup goal. The USA's Bert Patenaude scored the first hat-trick in World Cup history, as his team beat Paraguay 3-0. The four eventual group winners, Argentina, Yugoslavia, Uruguay, and the USA, moved to the semifinals.\n\nThe two semi-final matches saw identical 6-1 scores, as Argentina beat the US and Uruguay defeated Yugoslavia. Because the traditional third-place playoff match was not established until 1934, the 1930 World Cup is unique in not having any games take place between the semi-finals and the Final as Yugoslavia refused to play the 3rd place play-off against the USA. [citation needed] However, some sources, notably the FIFA Bulletin from 1984, affirm that the match occurred (Yugoslavia - US 3-1). [1] This information has never been officially confirmed.\n\nThe first ever World Cup Final was played at the Centenario Stadium, Montevideo, on July 30th. A seemingly innocuous controversy overshadowed the build-up to the match as the teams disagreed on who should provide the match ball, forcing FIFA to intervene and decree that the Argentine team would provide the ball for the first half and the Uruguayans would provide their own for the second. The game ended 4-2 to Uruguay (who had trailed 2-1 at half time) who added the title World Cup Winners to the already prestigious mantle of Olympic Champions, as Jules Rimet presented the World Cup Trophy, which was later to be named after the man himself. Only one player from that final, Francisco Varallo (who played as a striker for Argentina), is still alive today.
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1930\n\nThe first Football World Cup was staged in 1930. The games were awarded to Uruguay as they were the Olympic champions at the time and since they were celebrating the centenary of their independence. As well as being the first ever hosts, Uruguay also became the inaugural champions, beating Argentina in the final, 4-2.\n\nThe first World Cup was the only one without qualification; teams were invited. Due to the long and costly trip across the Atlantic, very few European teams chose to participate; two months before the tournament started, no team from that continent had officially entered. FIFA's president, Jules Rimet, intervened, along with the Uruguayan government, which promised to pay the travel expenses of any travelling European team. Eventually four teams made the three-week sea trip: Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia.\n\nThe thirteen teams were drawn into four groups, with all the games taking place in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. Since there were no qualifying games, the opening two matches of the tournament were also the first ever World Cup games, taking place simultaneously on July 13th; France beat Mexico 4-1, while the USA defeated Belgium 3-0 at the same time in Estadio Gran Parque Central. France's Lucien Laurent was the scorer of the first ever World Cup goal. The USA's Bert Patenaude scored the first hat-trick in World Cup history, as his team beat Paraguay 3-0. The four eventual group winners, Argentina, Yugoslavia, Uruguay, and the USA, moved to the semifinals.\n\nThe two semi-final matches saw identical 6-1 scores, as Argentina beat the US and Uruguay defeated Yugoslavia. Because the traditional third-place playoff match was not established until 1934, the 1930 World Cup is unique in not having any games take place between the semi-finals and the Final as Yugoslavia refused to play the 3rd place play-off against the USA. [citation needed] However, some sources, notably the FIFA Bulletin from 1984, affirm that the match occurred (Yugoslavia - US 3-1). [1] This information has never been officially confirmed.\n\nThe first ever World Cup Final was played at the Centenario Stadium, Montevideo, on July 30th. A seemingly innocuous controversy overshadowed the build-up to the match as the teams disagreed on who should provide the match ball, forcing FIFA to intervene and decree that the Argentine team would provide the ball for the first half and the Uruguayans would provide their own for the second. The game ended 4-2 to Uruguay (who had trailed 2-1 at half time) who added the title World Cup Winners to the already prestigious mantle of Olympic Champions, as Jules Rimet presented the World Cup Trophy, which was later to be named after the man himself. Only one player from that final, Francisco Varallo (who played as a striker for Argentina), is still alive today.
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1930 IN URUGUAY \n1908 WAS THE FIRST OLYMPIC SOCCER GAME
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Andres Escobar, from Columbia. He scored an own-goal, then USA scored, then Columbia scored and the game ended 2-1 for the USA.\n\nEscobar was later killed in Medellin, when he confronted a group of drunks in a bar who were teasing him over that goal.
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England played their first World Cup game in the 1950 finals in Brazil. They wore red and white vertical stripes, and blue shorts. They beat Chile 2-0.
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Andres Escobar, Columbian , scored an own goal in a game against the US in the 1994 World Cup, giving the Americans the win.  Upon his return to his native Columbia, he was shot and killed for it.
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9. 1930 was the First World Cup. Only 13 nations took part, and Uruguay won.
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The first FIFA World Cup was held in 1930, in Uruguay and the winners were Uruguay. The teams were entered into the competition by invitation. The final was held in the Centenario stadium between Argentina and Uruguay and the final score was 4-2 to Uruguay
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Not columbian.. He was Ernst Lotscher of Switzerland againts Germany in the first round replay game in 1938.\nBut, some sources said Manuel Rosas (Mexico) during a game against Chile in 1930.
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First goal in World Cup:\nBy Lucien Laurent of France against Mexico in the 19th minute in the first World Cup match on 13/07/1930.\n\nFor more facts about World Cup visit:\nhttp://home.netvigator.com/~andrewshe/wcrec_goals.html
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Uruguay won the first world cup in1930 which was held in Uruguay
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USA beat England 1-0 in the 1950 finals. \nhttp://www.soccerhall.org/history/WorldCup_1950.htm
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(m)\n\nUruguay won the first world cup tournament in 1930.