Uruguay Team Profile World Cup 2010

The Uruguay national football team represents Uruguay in international football competition and is controlled by the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol.

Uruguay have won two FIFA World Cups, including the first ever World Cup in 1930 as hosts, beating Argentina 4-2 in the final. They won their second title in 1950, upsetting hosts Brazil 2-1 in the final match. They also won the Gold Medals in football at the Summer Olympics twice, in 1924 and 1928, before the creation of the World Cup. They also won the 1980 Mundialito, a tournament among former World Cup champions Uruguay hosted in 1980 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first World Cup. Uruguay is one of the most successful teams in the world, having won 18 official titles: 2 Fifa World Cup, 2 Olympic Games and 14 Copa América.

Their success is amplified by the fact that the nation has a very small population. Uruguay is the only country in the world to win a World Cup with a general population of under 4 million inhabitants and is by far the smallest nation to do so. The second smallest country to have won the World Cup is Argentina with a total population of over 40 million people. Uruguay is also the smallest country ever to win any World Cup medals. In fact, only six nations with populations smaller than Uruguay's have ever participated in any World Cup: Northern Ireland (3 times), Wales, Kuwait, Jamaica, Slovenia and Trinidad and Tobago. Uruguay is also the smallest nation to win Olympic gold medals in any team sport.

Uruguay is also the smallest member nation of CONMEBOL, South American Football Association. Nevertheless, Uruguayan national team also have won the Copa América 14 different times, a record it shares with Argentina.

However, the level of the Uruguay national team has decreased lately as Uruguay has only qualified on two occasions in the last five World Cups, although it remains a strong team in South America, having reached third place and fourth place in the last two Copa América tournaments, respectively.

Uruguay Team Profile Matches Road to 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

13/10/07 16:30Montevideo UruguayUruguay5:0 (2:0)BoliviaBolivia
17/10/07 18:10Asuncion ParaguayParaguay1:0 (1:0)UruguayUruguay
18/11/07 17:00Montevideo UruguayUruguay2:2 (1:0)ChileChile
21/11/07 21:45Sao Paulo BrazilBrazil2:1 (1:1)UruguayUruguay
14/06/08 16:00Montevideo UruguayUruguay1:1 (1:0)VenezuelaVenezuela
17/06/08 19:00Montevideo UruguayUruguay6:0 (2:0)PeruPeru
06/09/08 18:20Bogota ColombiaColombia0:1 (0:1)UruguayUruguay
10/09/08 17:40Montevideo UruguayUruguay0:0EcuadorEcuador
11/10/08 18:10Buenos Aires ArgentinaArgentina2:1 (2:1)UruguayUruguay
14/10/08 16:00La Paz BoliviaBolivia2:2 (2:0)UruguayUruguay
28/03/09 17:00Montevideo UruguayUruguay2:0 (1:0)ParaguayParaguay
01/04/09 19:10Santiago De Chile ChileChile0:0UruguayUruguay
06/06/09 16:00Montevideo UruguayUruguay0:4 (0:2)BrazilBrazil
10/06/09 20:30Puerto Ordaz VenezuelaVenezuela2:2 (1:0)UruguayUruguay
05/09/09 15:30Lima PeruPeru1:0 (0:0)UruguayUruguay
09/09/09 18:00Montevideo UruguayUruguay3:1 (1:0)ColombiaColombia
10/10/09 17:00Quito EcuadorEcuador1:2 (0:0)UruguayUruguay
14/10/09 20:00Montevideo UruguayUruguay0:1 (0:0)ArgentinaArgentina
14/11/09 20:00San Jose Costa RicaCosta Rica0:1 (0:1)UruguayUruguay
18/11/09 21:00Montevideo UruguayUruguay1:1 (0:0)Costa RicaCosta Rica

Uruguay team last standing position and play off to 2010 FIFA World Cup


TeamMPWDLGFGAPts
BrazilBrazil *18972331134
ChileChile *181035322233
ParaguayParaguay *181035241633
ArgentinaArgentina *18846232028
UruguayUruguay *18666282024
EcuadorEcuador18657222623
ColombiaColombia18657141823
VenezuelaVenezuela18648232922
BoliviaBolivia184311223615
PeruPeru183411113413

Uruguay vs Costa Rica = 0:1
Costa Rica vs Uruguay = 1:1

Uruguay Team Record in FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup Record
Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA
Uruguay 1930 Champions 1st 4 4 0 0 15 3
Italy 1934 Withdrew
France 1938 Did Not Enter
Brazil 1950 Champions 1st 4 3 1 0 15 5
Switzerland 1954 Semi-Final 4th 5 3 0 2 16 9
Sweden 1958 Did Not Qualify
Chile 1962 Round 1 13th 3 1 0 2 4 6
England 1966 Quarter-Final 7th 4 1 2 1 2 5
Mexico 1970 Semi-Final 4th 6 2 1 3 4 5
West Germany 1974 Round 1 13th 3 0 1 2 1 6
Argentina 1978 Did Not Qualify
Spain 1982
Mexico 1986 Round of 16 16th 4 0 2 2 2 8
Italy 1990 Round of 16 16th 4 1 1 2 2 5
United States 1994 Did Not Qualify
France 1998
South KoreaJapan 2002 Round 1 26th 3 0 2 1 4 5
Germany 2006 Did Not Qualify
South Africa 2010 Qualified






Brazil 2014 - - - - - - - -
Total 11/19 2 Titles 40 15 10 15 65 57

Uruguay team squad 2010 FIFA World Cup

The following players have also been called up to the Uruguay squad in the past 12 months.

Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club
GK Martín Silva 25 March 1983 (1983-03-25) (age 26) 1 0 Uruguay Defensor Sporting
GK Sebastián Viera 7 March 1983 (1983-03-07) (age 27) 28 0 Greece Larissa
GK Rodrigo Muñoz 22 January 1982 (1982-01-22) (age 28) 0 0 Uruguay Nacional

DF Martín Cáceres 7 April 1987 (1987-04-07) (age 22) 46 0 Italy Juventus
DF Diego Lugano Captain sports.svg 2 November 1980 (1980-11-02) (age 29) 42 4 Turkey Fenerbahçe
DF Juan Manuel Díaz 28 October 1987 (1987-10-28) (age 22) 0 0 Argentina River Plate
DF Bruno Silva 29 March 1980 (1980-03-29) (age 29) 19 0 Brazil Internacional
DF Mauricio Victorino 11 October 1982 (1982-10-11) (age 27) 4 0 Chile Universidad de Chile
DF Carlos Valdez 5 February 1983 (1983-02-05) (age 27) 15 0 Italy Reggina
DF Martín Rodríguez 10 February 1985 (1985-02-10) (age 25) 0 0 Uruguay Liverpool

MF Ignacio González 1 January 1982 (1982-01-01) (age 28) 17 1 Greece Levadiakos
MF Miguel Amado 28 December 1984 (1984-12-28) (age 25) 2 0 Uruguay Defensor Sporting
MF Sebastián Eguren 8 January 1981 (1981-01-08) (age 29) 26 5 Sweden AIK
MF Álvaro Fernández 11 October 1985 (1985-10-11) (age 24) 7 0 Chile Universidad de Chile
MF Álvaro González 29 October 1984 (1984-10-29) (age 25) 11 0 Uruguay Nacional
MF Diego de Souza 14 July 1984 (1984-07-14) (age 25) 0 0 Uruguay Defensor Sporting
MF Cristian Rodríguez 30 September 1985 (1985-09-30) (age 24) 36 3 Portugal Porto
MF Diego Arismendi 25 January 1988 (1988-01-25) (age 22) 2 0 England Brighton & Hove Albion
MF Juan Albín 17 July 1986 (1986-07-17) (age 23) 0 0 Spain Getafe

FW Hernán Rodrigo López 21 January 1978 (1978-01-21) (age 32) 2 0 Argentina Vélez Sársfield


 

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