Uruguay - Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa, Betting Tips, Fixture Schedule, Results, Tables, Livescore

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Uruguay

Uruguay finished the qualification in South America for the WC 2010 on the fifth place, behind Brazil Paraguay, Chile and Argentinia. So they had to qualify via Play Off for the World Cup in South Africa. The Play-Off-opponent was Costa Rica. Uruguay won away 1:0. At home Uruguay celebrated with a 1:1-remis their successful qualification for South Africa.

It's the 7th World Cup participation for Uruguay. Two times they could win the World Cup. However, these both title were long ago (1930 in Uruguay, 1950 in Brazil). At their last World Cup (2002 in Japan and South Korea) Uruguay failed in the group stage.

Team profile - Uruguay

	Confederation: CONMEBOL
	FIFA-ranking: 20
Association: Asociacion Uruguaya de Futbol (1900)
Jersey colors: Light blue jersey, black shorts
Achievements: 1930, 1950 World champion 14x Copa America winner 1924, 1928 Olympic champion

Squad - Uruguay

Goalkeeper
Juan Castillo	Fernando Muslera
Martín Silva
Defense
Martín Cáceres	Jorge Fucile
Diego Godín	Ignacio González
Diego Lugano	Maxi Pereira
Mauricio Victorino
Midlefield
Egidio Arévalo	Sebastián Eguren
Alvaro Fernández	Walter Gargano
Nicolás Lodeiro	Álvaro Pereira
Diego Pérez	Andrés Scotti
Offense
Sebastián Abreu	Edinson Cavani
Sebastián Fernández	Diego Forlán
uis Suarez
Coach
Oscar Tabárez