The Day Football Outgrew the Olympics

OTD E0276 — 03 Aug 1928: At the IOC Session in Amsterdam, football received the ultimatum that pushed it off the 1932 Olympic programme. This episode traces Olympic football from 1908 and 1912 through Uruguay’s 1924 and 1928 triumphs, the amateurism fight, broken-time payments, the British withdrawal from FIFA, Jules Rimet, FIFA’s May 1928 World Cup vote, Baillet-Latour, Lord Rochdale, General Sherrill, the August 3 resolution, Berlin 1930, Los Angeles 1932, and why the World Cup became men’s football’s true world championship.Ideas: [email protected]