La Máquina Blanca

Nacional won back to back championships in 1933 & 1934, the team nicknamed La Máquina Blanca.
The 1933 championship concluded (almost) in the notorious  El gol de la valija  incident 
The record of the 2 Championship seasons was:

P	W	D	L	F	A
27	20	6	1	56	10
27	17	7	3	51	17

Américo Szigeti of Hungary became head coach during the 1933 season.
The players who contributed to La Máquina Blanca were:

GK	Eduardo García
FB	José Nasazzi   Ulises Chifflet Domingos da Guia (Brazil) Juan Brito Juan Ramón Cabrera
HB	Arsenio Fernández Ricardo Faccio

               Marcelino Pérez

               Michele Andreolo (Italy)

               Fausto dos Santos (Brazil)

               Conduelo Píriz

F             Juan Miguel Labraga

               Aníbal Ciocca
               Rodolpho Barteczko Patesko (Brazil)

               Pedro Cea

               Pedro Petrone

               Zoilo Saldombide

               Santos Urdinarán

               Francisco Arispe

               Pedro Duhart (France)

               Héctor Castro

               Enrique Fernández

               Eduardo Ithurbide

1930 World Cup-Team of the Tournament

Enrique Ballestrero (Uruguay)

The 25 year old Rampla Juniors ‘keeper conceded 3 goals, keeping 3 clean sheets in the group stage.

José Nasazzi (Uruguay)

El Gran Mariscal was 28 at the time of the World Cup and was playing club football for Bella Vista. Already with 2 Olympic Golds and 3 South American Championships to his name, Nasazzi was the player of the tournament.

Milutin Ivković (Yugoslavia)

24-year-old medical student, captain of Yugoslavia. The only European on the list, he played for SK Soko (Belgrade).

Luis Monti (Argentina)

Doble Ancho, the 29 year old Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro halfback scored 

2 goals in the tournament and was reputedly subject to death threats before the final. 

Álvaro Gestido (Uruguay)

The 23 yr old Peñarol centre half was another Olympic gold medalist (1928).

José Leandro Andrade (Uruguay)

28 year old Maravilla Negra was a Nacional player at the time of the World Cup win. He was also a double Olympic champion and 3 times South American Championship winner.

Pedro Cea (Uruguay)
The 29 year old Nacional forward scored 5 goals in the tournament including a hattrick in the semi final. He scored the goal that brought Uruguay level at 2-2 in the final. He was also a double Olympic Gold medalist.

Héctor Castro (Uruguay)

25 year old  Nacional centre forward won a Gold medal at the 1928 Olympics and was a 2 times South American Championship winner.He was Uruguay's first World Cup scorer. His second goal of the tournament was Uruguay's 4th in the final, scored in the 89th minute.

Famously Castro was an amputee.

Héctor Scarone (Uruguay)

The veteran inside forward was 31 at the time of the World Cup win. He was back at Nacional following a spell with Barcelona. Scarone had won 4 South American Championships and 2 Olympic Gold medals.

Guillermo Stábile (Argentina)

Having come in as a replacement for Argentina's second game, 25 year old Stabile (Huracan)  scored 8 goals in 4 games and never played in another international match, moving to Italy after the World Cup. 

Bert Patenaude (USA)

The 21 year old Fall River Marksmen forward is credited with 4 goals at the World Cup.

Strange days- El gol de la valija

May 27th , 1934,Centenario Stadium, Nacional v Peñarol in the league championship play off . 21 minutes into the second half. The score is 0-0.  Bahía, Peñarol's Brazilian winger, shoots at goal, (at the Colombes end of the ground if you're a stickler for detail). 
Eduardo García in the Nacional goal is beaten but the ball passes his right hand upright. 
The ball then strikes a case belonging to the Nacional physio, and bounces back into play. 
Anselmo passes to Braulio Castro who rolls the ball into the net. Referee Telésforo Rodríguez  signals a goal.
 Nacional's Juan Miguel Labraga and José Nasazzi protest vigorously- to the point of assaulting the referee. After the furore abates Snr.Rodríguez required medical tresatment- he is replaced by Luis Scandroglio. Nasazzi,Labraga and Chifflet are dismissed. Darkness falls and the match is suspended.
64 days later(!) the League passed judgement.Castro's goal was expunged. The match was to be resumed as 0-0 after 70 minutes, but Nasazzi and Labraga remained sent off. Chifflet was reprieved. 
So, on 25.08.34 the remaining 20 minutes was  played behind closed doors at the Centenario. The 9 of Nacional held on for a 0-0 draw , even though 2 half hour periods of extra time were also played.

Braulio Castro

The 9 of Nacional

September 2nd's replay saw a further 150 goalless minutes between the 2 sides (11 against 11 this time).
The matter wasn't decided until November 18th- Centenario was again the venue.
Braulio Castro put Peñarol ahead in the 42nd minute, Hector Castro equalising 8 minutes after the break. 5 minutes later Arremon restored Peñarol's lead but in less than 20 minutes Hector Castro completed his hattrick to seal the championship for Nacional

The ball and the bag.

El divino manco

Generally speaking, Hector Castro kept his right arm out of view. In group photographs he has one arm crossed over the other or tucked into his jacket pocket. There is one group photograph of  Nacional  in which Castro is steadying the ball with the stump of his right wrist.
I was intrigued, as a boy, to read that the winning goal (as it was described) in the first World Cup Final, had been scored by a 'one armed man'.
Castro lost his right hand in an accident with a bandsaw when he was 13 years of age.
His breakthrough year came in 1923, He moved from El Centro Atlético Lito , joining Nacional and also made his international debut.
He played for Uruguay 25 times, scoring 18 goals.

Castro was a gold medal winner at the 1928 Olympics.

He was a World Cup winner in 1930.

He played in the victorious South American Championship teams of 1926 and 1935.