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BACKGROUND The competition, held at various football grounds throughout South England, came to be seen as a celebration of Olympic ideals. Sweden, whose Football Association forbade professionalism within domestic football, ran out worthy winners and only used 12 players throughout the entire tournament but there were exceptional performances put up by Korea and India. COMPETITION The Netherlands and Ireland began the tournament on July 26 at Fratton Park , Portsmouth . Faas Wilkes , the famous Dutch international, scoring two goals in a 3-1 win. In the first round, which began five days later, the Dutch would play Great Britain at Highbury . The game only came alive in extra-time; 5 goals coming in the added time; Britain prevailing by the odd goal in eight. In goal Ronnie Simpson , both the youngest League debutant and oldest Scottish international in history; one of the Lisbon Lions , held firm while the goals flew in. Elsewhere the , 2006 . Sweden's play at White Hart Lane attracted much attention even then. Their forward line contained three exceptional players; one of them Gunnar Gren scored a brace in an easy win. There were two goals, as well, for future FIFA World Cup star Zeljko Cajkovski in Yugoslavia's 6-1 rout of Luxembourg, although they were behind at half-time. There were future World Cup stars also on parade in Korea 's 5-3 defeat of Mexico and the USA 's 9-0 defeat at the hands of Italy . Walter Bahr , Ed Souza , Charlie Colombo and John Souza would, later, find some sort of fame as members of the American team that would humble the English World Cup team in 1950 FIFA World Cup . In the quarter-finals, Sweden flourished against the Koreans and were similarly dominant against the Danes in the semi-final. Late in the game when Denmark were chasing an equaliser with the score 3-2 to Sweden, Gunnar Nordahl, who had strayed too far forwards, raced into the Danish goal when the Swedes counter-attacked their opponent's goal, catching Henry Carlsson 's winning goal before it reached the net. In the second semi-final Britain played Yugoslavia at Wembley Stadium going out by 3 goals to 1. And 3-1 was the score in the final, Gunnar Nordahl and Gunnar Gren 's goals proving too much for the Yugoslavians. SQUADS REFERENCE |
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