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Uruguay won the football tournament at the 1928 Summer Olympics by defeating Argentina in the final. This victory marked the last Olympic football tournament before the inception of the FIFA World Cup.
The first FIFA World Cup was held for the first time in 1930. The decision to organize this new tournament was made on the 26th of May 1928 during a FIFA congress in Amsterdam presided over by Jules Rimet.
The four home associations of the United Kingdom voted unanimously to withdraw from FIFA on the 17th of February 1928. They opposed the manner in which the governing body sought to dictate matters regarding broken time payments and amateur status requirements.
Ten European nations including seventeen teams in all journeyed to the Netherlands for the competition. The Dutch received 250,000 requests for tickets from all over Europe for these events.
Domingo Tarasconi of Argentina scored eleven goals to become the top scorer of the tournament. Manuel Ferreira of Argentina and Adolfo Baloncieri of Italy both scored six goals each.