Football World Cup 2002 / Uruguay

This article covers the Uruguayan national team at the 2002 World Cup .

qualification

In the South American Confederation, the qualification was played in a single large group that included all ten countries. The first four qualified directly, and the fifth had to play two playoffs against the winner of the Oceania group.

Uruguay only reached fifth place in the South American group thanks to a slightly better goal difference against Colombia. The first play-off against Australia was just lost. With a 3-0 home win in the second leg, the last place in the final round was secured.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Argentina	42:15	43
2	Ecuador	23:20	31
3	Brazil	31:17	30th
4th	Paraguay	29:23	30th
5	Uruguay	19:13	27
6th	Colombia	20:15	27
7th	Bolivia	21:33	18th
8th	Peru	14:25	16
9	Venezuela	18:44	16
10	Chile	15:27	12

Uruguay	-	Bolivia	1-0
Paraguay	-	Uruguay	1-0
Uruguay	-	Chile	2: 1
Brazil	-	Uruguay	1: 1
Uruguay	-	Venezuela	3: 1
Uruguay	-	Peru	0-0
Colombia	-	Uruguay	1-0
Uruguay	-	Ecuador	4-0
Argentina	-	Uruguay	2: 1
Bolivia	-	Uruguay	0-0
Uruguay	-	Paraguay	0: 1
Chile	-	Uruguay	0: 1
Uruguay	-	Brazil	1-0
Venezuela	-	Uruguay	2-0
Peru	-	Uruguay	0: 2
Uruguay	-	Colombia	1: 1
Ecuador	-	Uruguay	1: 1
Uruguay	-	Argentina	1: 1

Intercontinental playoff

Australia	-	Uruguay			1-0
Uruguay	-	Australia			3-0

Uruguayan contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Fabian Carini	Juventus Turin	December 26, 1979	3	0	1	0	0
12	Gustavo Munúa	Nacional Montevideo	January 27, 1978	0	0	0	0	0
23	Federico Elduayen	CA Peñarol	June 25, 1977	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Gustavo Méndez	Nacional Montevideo	3rd February 1971	1	0	1	0	0
3	Alejandro Lembo	Nacional Montevideo	February 15, 1978	2	0	0	0	0
4th	Paolo Montero	Juventus Turin	3rd September 1971	3	0	1	0	0
6th	Darío Rodríguez	CA Peñarol	17th September 1974	3	1	1	0	0
14th	Gonzalo Sorondo	Inter Milan	October 9, 1979	3	0	0	0	0
19th	Joe Bizera	CA Peñarol	May 17, 1980	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Pablo García	AC Venice	May 11, 1977	3	0	2	0	0
7th	Gianni Guigou	AS Roma	February 22, 1975	2	0	0	0	0
8th	Gustavo Varela	Nacional Montevideo	May 14, 1978	3	0	0	0	0
10	Fabian O'Neill	AC Perugia	October 14, 1973	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Nicolás Olivera	Sevilla FC	May 30, 1978	0	0	0	0	0
16	Marcelo Romero	Málaga CF	4th July 1976	2	0	2	0	0
17th	Mario Regueiro	Racing Santander	September 14, 1978	2	0	0	0	0
22nd	Gonzalo de los Santos	Valencia CF	July 19, 1976	1	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Dario Silva	Málaga CF	2nd November 1972	3	0	1	0	0
11	Federico Magallanes	AC Venice	August 28, 1976	2	0	0	0	0
13	Sebastián Abreu	CD Cruz Azul	17th October 1976	3	0	1	0	0
18th	Richard Morales	Nacional Montevideo	February 21, 1975	2	1	0	0	0
20th	Álvaro Recoba	Inter Milan	March 17, 1976	3	1	0	0	0
21st	Diego Forlan	Manchester United	May 19, 1979	1	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Víctor Púa		March 31, 1956

Games of the Uruguayan team

Uruguay was drawn into France's group, the big favorite for the title. The first game against Denmark, the competitor in second place, was lost a little unfortunate. Against the immensely disappointing French, a draw was reached, whereby Uruguay would have deserved the victory due to the clearer scoring chances.

In the last and decisive game against the surprise team Senegal, Uruguay were already 3-0 behind at half-time. However, the Africans slackened considerably in the second half of the game, so that the South Americans could still equalize. A victory would have been necessary to reach the next round. The two-time world champion was thus eliminated from the tournament. Denmark had qualified for the round of 16 before Senegal.

Uruguay	-	Denmark	1: 2
France	-	Uruguay	0-0
Senegal	-	Uruguay	3: 3

Web links

• Squad on fifa.com