argentina won their first world cup in 1929.
when did argentina win their first world cup?
1929
paternoster was part of the argentina squad that finished runner-up to uruguay in the 1928 olympic football tournament. he played in the 1929 south american championship, helping argentina win the title. in 1930 he was again in an argentine team that finished as runner up to uruguay, this time in the 1930 fifa world cup. he made a total of 16 appearances for argentina.









































section::::managerial career.
fernando paternoster
suspicions of match fixing arose even before the tournament began; lajos baróti, the head coach of argentina’s first opponents, hungary, said that “everything, even the air, is in favor of argentina.” he also talked about the financial imperative to have argentina win the world cup: “the success of argentina is financially so important to the tournament.”









































from will hersey’s article “remembering argentina 1978: the dirtiest world cup of all time”:
1978 fifa world cup