There is a huge club v country brawl brewing at the Copa America’s as Napoli president Antonio De Laurentiis has warned Uruguay he is prepared to take strong action if they risk the health of Edinson Cavani. Cavaini, who picked up a knee injury in the group stages, has seen his Uruguay side reach the [...]
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Two goals from Liverpool striker Luis Suarez within 5 minutes in the second half was enough to see Uruguay beat Peru 2-0 on Tuesday and move into the Copa America final. Uruguay, which reached the semifinals of last year’s World Cup, will be looking for a record-15th Copa America title in Sunday’s final against either [...]
Friday’s second quarter final fixture between Uruguay and Ghana at Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium will be the first ever meeting between these two sides at senior level. Surprisingly though, the Black Satellites ( Ghana’s u-20 side) drew 2-2 with Uruguay in the group stages of last years U-20 tournament which they went on to win.Six [...]
Operation Reach for the Sky The General: Oscar Washington Tabarez is one of the many coaches this summer in South Africa with previous experience in the World Cup final. For Tabarez his experience is more dated then most stretching all the way back to 1990 when the manager motivated his homeland’s side to what was [...]
The Glass is Half Full Uruguay will win the World Cup because they have one of the tournament’s most explosive offenses and one of the Cup’s richest histories. The club was not only the first team to ever win the Cup, but they were also the second team to ever win two titles (behind Italy [...]
The Keeper Viera and Castillo will battle it out for the honor of starting goalie. Either way Uruguay decides to go means that they lack a really solid keeper in the net and this is one of their most suspect units right now. Usually a solid defensive club, they will have to prove their worth this [...]
THE PAST Most people do not know this little fact, but Uruguay was the first ever champions of the World Cup and the nation was also the host of the first ever World Cup as well. The team did win the Cup under much different rules then the current ones (only 13 teams competed), but they also [...]
photo credit: jikatu The Team: Uruguay has a rich soccer history that features two World Cup titles. However, they have not won it all since 1950, and their recent results have been rather poor. But, one must remember that Uruguay is actually quite a small country, and therefore their success on the pitch must [...]
