Panamerican Championship
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The Panamerican Championship was an international official football tournament orginazed by the Panamerican Football Confederation every four years with three editions held from 1952 through 1960.[1]
Organizing body | Panamerican Football Confederation |
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Founded | 1949 |
Abolished | 1960 |
Region | Americas |
Number of teams | 6 (1952-1956) 4 (1960) |
Related competitions | |
Most successful team(s) | Brazil (2 titles) |
The competition was similar to the Copa América but included nations from the North American Football Confederation (NAFC) and the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF) (which merged to form CONCACAF in 1961).
Panamerican Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Panamericano de Fútbol) and (Portuguese: Campeonato Panamericano de futebol) was an tourment founded in 1949 by the Panamerican Football Confederation and to unify the three existing confederations, CONMEBOL, NAFC, and CCCF, the championship had 3 editions which the champions were Brazil having two titles and one for Argentina. [2][3] as an attempt to create an Americas-wide, each winners of NAFC Championship (Until 1949), CCCF Championship (Until 1960), South American Championship (later Copa America) and the Host would qualified to the Tourment, since the Americas' premier tournament, Copa América, was restricted to South American teams.
The Panamerican Football Confederation (Spanish: Confederación Panamericana de Fútbol) (Portuguese: Confederação Panamericana de Futebol) (French: Confédération Panaméricaine de football) (Dutch: Panamerikaanse voetbalconfederatie) and abbreviation (PFC) was a football confederation founded in 1946 in an attempt to unite all the countries of the Americas into a single confederation, It consisted of the North American Football Confederation (NAFC), the Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation (CCCF) and the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), the confederation was dissolved on 1961 when CCCF and NAFC were merged to from CONCACAF and with the exit of CONMEBOL.
The Panamerican Football Confederation organized three Panamerican Championships The winners were:
Rank | Nat. | Player | Goals | Played |
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1 | Valeriano López | 7 | 5 | |
2 | Andrés Prieto | 6 | 2 | |
3 | Oscar Míguez | 5 | 5 | |
Omar Sívori | 5 | |||
Julio Abbadie | 5 | |||
4 | Chinesinho | 4 | 3 | |
Carlos Septién | 5 | |||
Larry | 5 | |||
Baltazar | 5 | |||
Rodrigues Tatu | 5 | |||
Pinga | 5 | |||
Jorge Monge | 5 | |||
5 | Humberto Maschio | 3 | 4 | |
Osvaldo Nardiello | 5 | |||
Juarez | 5 | |||
Raúl Belén | 6 | |||
Sigifredo Mercado | 6 | |||
Elton | 6 |
Edition | Coach |
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1952 | Zezé Moreira |
1956 | Teté |
1960 | Guillermo Stábile |
More that 5 goals are concidered largest goals on the tourment, between the 1952 had the most scored goals of 69 goals on 15 matches, while the 1960 had the less scored goals, In the match of Peru vs Panama and Brazil vs Costa Rica were the matches were both 1952 and 1956 the scores were on both (7-1) becoming the most scores in the tourment history.
The largest scores were:
Team | Store | Team | Edition |
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Peru | 7-1 | Panama | 1952 Panamerican Championship |
Brazil | 7-1 | Costa Rica | 1956 Panamerican Championship |
Chile | 6-1 | Panama | 1952 Panamerican Championship |
Uruguay | 6-1 | Panama | 1952 Panamerican Championship |
Brazil | 5-0 | Panama | 1952 Panamerican Championship |
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