Stunning Piece of Pedernera First Copa America! Adolfo Pedernera COPA AMERICA 1941 WINNER'S Argentina Football Association (AFA) Delegation FLAG (Six Feet) WITH AFA LETTERS See!

*Provenance: Adolfo Pedernera Collection*

The delegation flag has AFA (Argentina Football Association) letters stamped (Size is approximately 1.96 meters  - 6 feet and two inches!)

• Argentina won its sixth CONMEBOL Copa América™ at the 1941 edition in Chile.


• Argentine Juan Marvezzi was the tournament's top scorer with 5 goals in 4 matches.

The 1941 CONMEBOL Copa América™ was played in Santiago, Chile, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Chilean capital. The organizers presented a stunning venue for its time: the Estadio Nacional, built entirely of concrete and with a capacity for 70,000 people.

Five teams competed in this edition, including a South American classic: Argentina and Uruguay, both with very strong lineups, as well as Chile, Ecuador, and Peru.


The tournament champion was Argentina, which was beginning a golden decade of its football, with the emergence of great players. In the decisive match against Uruguay, the Argentine side narrowly defeated the Celestes 1-0 with a goal from Antonio Sastre, an exceptional player who played in eight different positions, earning him a reputation as his country's most complete footballer.

This edition featured several figures who would become legends in South American football: José Manuel Moreno and Adolfo Pedernera in Argentina; Obdulio Varela in Uruguay; and goalkeeper Sergio Livingstone in Chile.

The Chilean goalkeeper was voted the competition's best player, and Livingstone subsequently became one of the most important goalkeepers in La Roja's history.

Argentina and Uruguay, first and second in the competition, finished with 10 goals scored and only one conceded. This was Argentina's sixth title in the tournament, with the unique distinction of winning every match in each case.

The Albiceleste were crowned champions under the command of Guillermo Stábile, world runner-up and top scorer in the first FIFA World Cup held in Uruguay in 1930.

There were no draws in this edition and all matches were won by the team that scored first.Peruvian Teodoro Fernández tied Uruguayan Héctor Scarone as the all-time top scorer in the tournament's history until 1941, with 13 goals each. Fernández scored three goals in the 1941 edition. Juan Andrés Marvezzi, the tournament's top scorer, became the second player to score five goals in a single CONMEBOL Copa América match. The Argentine player achieved this feat during his team's 6-1 victory over Ecuador.

A total of 32 goals were scored in the 10 matches played, for an average of 3.2 per game.