Football World Cup 1970 / Uruguay

This article covers the Uruguayan national soccer team at the 1970 Soccer World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Uruguay	5-0	7th
2	Chile	5: 4	4th
3	Ecuador	2: 8	1

Ecuador	-	Uruguay	0: 2
Chile	-	Uruguay	0-0
Uruguay	-	Ecuador	1-0
Uruguay	-	Chile	2-0

Uruguayan contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Ladislao Mazurkiewicz	Peñarol Montevideo	02/14/1945	6th	0	0	0
12	Hector Santos	CA Bella Vista	October 29, 1944	0	0	0	0
22nd	Walter Corbo	Nacional Montevideo	05/02/1949	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Atilio Ancheta	Nacional Montevideo	07/19/1948	6th	0	0	0
3	Roberto Matosas	Peñarol Montevideo	05/11/1940	6th	0	1	0
4th	Luis Ubiña	Nacional Montevideo	06/07/1940	6th	0	1	0
5	Julio Montero Castillo	Nacional Montevideo	04/25/1944	6th	0	0	0
6th	Juan Mujica	Nacional Montevideo	December 22, 1943	6th	1	1	0
14th	Francisco Cámera	CA Bella Vista	01/01/1944	0	0	0	0
16	Omar Caetano	Peñarol Montevideo	11/08/1938	0	0	0	0
midfield player
8th	Pedro Rocha	Peñarol Montevideo	December 3, 1942	1	0	0	0
9	Víctor Espárrago	Nacional Montevideo	10/06/1944	6th	1	0	0
10	Ildo Maneiro	Nacional Montevideo	08/04/1947	6th	1	1	0
13	Rodolfo Sandoval	Peñarol Montevideo	04/10/1948	1	0	0	0
20th	Julio César Cortés	Peñarol Montevideo	March 29, 1941	6th	0	0	0
striker
7th	Luis Cubilla	Nacional Montevideo	March 28, 1940	5	1	0	0
11	Julio César Morales	Nacional Montevideo	02/16/1945	3	0	0	0
15th	Dagoberto Fontes	Defensor	06/06/1943	4th	0	1	0
17th	Rubén Bareño	Club Atlético Cerro	01/23/1944	1	0	0	0
18th	Alberto Gomez	Liverpool FC	06/10/1944	1	0	0	0
19th	Oscar Zubía	CA River Plate	02/08/1946	2	0	0	0
21st	Julio Losada	Peñarol Montevideo	06/16/1950	2	0	0	0
Trainer
	Juan Hohberg		10/08/1926

Games of the Uruguayan team

First round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Italy	1-0	4th
2	Uruguay	2: 1	3
3	Sweden	2: 2	3
4th	Israel	1: 3	2

• Uruguay - Israel 2: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc ( Puebla )

Spectators: 20,000

Referee: Davidson ( Scotland )

Goals: 1-0 Maneiro (23rd), 2-0 Mujica (50th)

• Uruguay - Italy 0: 0 (0: 0)

Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc ( Puebla )

Spectators: 30,000

Referee: Glöckner ( GDR )

Goals: none

• Sweden - Uruguay 1: 0 (0: 0)

Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc ( Puebla )

Spectators: 18,000

Referee: Landauer ( USA )

Goals: 1-0 Grahn (90.)

The Italians saved their strength in group 2 for the next games, because two goalless draws against Uruguay and Israel, as well as a meager 1-0 win over Sweden were enough to win the group. Uruguay finished in second place due to their one goal better goal difference against Sweden. A total of six goals were scored in this group, which is characterized by economic defensive football.

Quarter finals

45,000

Aztec Stadium ( Mexico City )

Uruguay

Soviet Union

Van Ravens ( Netherlands )

1: 0 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0)

1-0 Espárrago (116.)

Uruguay and the USSR met in the Aztec Stadium. The mostly Mexican viewers hung on the transistor radios, because Mexico was playing against Italy at the same time and Urus and Russians were playing weakly and were mainly busy interrupting the flow of the game by fouling each other. That exhausting kick was decided by the goal from Víctor Espárrago minutes before the end of extra time. Again, the 2.4 million people had made it into the top football world - against the team of a 200 million strong society.

Semifinals

51,000

Estadio Jalisco ( Guadalajara )

Brazil

Uruguay

Ortiz de Mendíbil ( Spain )

3: 1 (1: 1)

0: 1 Cubilla (19th) 1: 1 Clodoaldo (44th) 2: 1 Jairzinho (76th) 3: 1 Rivelino (89th)

Uruguay and Brazil met in the second semi-final game in Guadalajara at 31 degrees in the shade and 45 degrees on the pitch. Surprisingly, the Urus took the lead through Cubilla against the Brazilians who had dominated the game until then. Only shortly before the half-time whistle did Clodoaldo equalize from a tight angle against a tough, uncomfortable defense from Uruguay. The referee's performance in the second round was disappointing. Several Urus fouls against the far superior Brazilians were either not whistled at all or moved outside the penalty area. But Jairzinho and Rivelino deservedly defeated the great Urus goalkeeper Mazurkiewicz in the closing stages. The favorite had prevailed after all.

Game for third place

Germany secured third place with a narrow 1-0 win over Uruguay. The Urus were the stronger team, but failed because of Horst Wolter , who was given the chance by Helmut Schön to prove himself.

Germany - Uruguay 1: 0 (1: 0)
Data	Saturday June 20, 1970 in Mexico City , Estadio Azteca
Germany	Wolter - Schnellinger (46th Lorenz ) - Vogts , Fichtel , Patzke - Weber , Overath , Seeler (captain) - Libuda (75th Löhr ), G.Müller , Held
Uruguay	Mazurkiewicz - Ancheta , Matosas , Montero , Ubiña (captain), Mujica - Maneiro (67th Sandoval ), Cortés , Cubilla - Morales , Fontes (46th Espárrago )
Gates	1-0 Overath (27.)