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The first match of the Chilean

On 27 May next year will mark 100 years of the first game played by a Chilean team. This can not be refuted nor is it my intention to do so. However, there is serious confusion among historians generally regard the rival football with which Chile lost 3 to 1 in this debut all, and the very nature of that struggle. Since

've been talking about the importance of consulting the sources "true" or primary of fact, I felt good just to clarify this situation, as an example of what can happen when a story is assembled based on other stories long after the event that seeks to evoke not the checking of data that really belongs to.

confess that I was assured that that May 27, 1910 Chile Argentina National Team faced. So, I was not surprised when my friends months ago CEDEP contacted me to request information on this historic match.

was then, to get to find data in the newspapers of the time, I discovered that contrary to what was always said about it, that first team Chilean actually played that day a match "practice" rather than to the true Argentina coach but against a combination of local players who had been assembled to measure forces in a last-friendly Alumni frustrated, the best team these plains at that time.

Therefore, the first opponent of the Red, which at that time was half red and half white, did not exactly with the figures of the Alumni, as if the Argentine team that had the days (more precisely, on June 5 , 1910) would play against the Chileans in the context of that first "South American Championship" of 1910 which also involved one selected from Uruguay.

another time I will speak more specifically of the errors commonly committed in the evocation of this competition which met for the first time in history to three selections from South America and the serious omission that many fall to not remember as the first antecedent of the current America's Cup. For now, and leave no issue, I will inform when I read about that first game played by a Chilean representative football. Viewing

attachment then we can check precisely the very different denomination, in releasing the schedule of games organized by the Centennial May Revolution, the newspaper La Argentina was in its special edition on Wednesday May 25, 1910 to the teams face Chile on 27 May and 5 June this year respectively.

As shown, this first match of a selected Chilean history is called "Combined" and not "Argentine", a name which by then was the national representative in place of "Selección Argentina" and that and other local selected appears that the "Chilean" face as "loser of match 29", ie of his match against "Uruguayan" that would open the South American.

as seen also in cutting up in the first Argentine team that faced the Chilean May 27 No of Alumni players who did play the game on June 5 as George Brown, who was the crack most renowned of the time in the country and had not played that last game for "Combined" precisely because that team was not the selection Argentina but a combined "training" as the same newspaper La Argentina makes clear later in the text to say

This also demonstrates the significant error in some very prestigious statisticians fall for the South American giving like this first game played in Buenos Aires Chile May 27, and just as "friendly" to the June 5 when in fact the latter was the one that was played at that tournament. But of this I shall speak in greater depth in another posting.