Soccer World Cup 2010 / Uruguay

This article covers the Uruguayan national soccer team at the 2010 Soccer World Cup .

qualification

The team qualified for the World Cup in South Africa through the qualifying games of the South American football association CONMEBOL .

All ten teams that belonged to the South American association CONMEBOL played against each other in a single group stage with a home and away leg, with a total of 18 matches. The four best-placed teams qualified directly for the finals of the 2010 World Cup. Uruguay finished fifth in the CONMEBOL against the fourth in the CONCACAF qualification Costa Rica with an overall result of 2: 1 from the two legs, the last place in the World Cup .

Group stage

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	33:11	34
2	Chile	32:22	33
3	Paraguay	24:16	33
4th	Argentina	23:20	28
5	Uruguay	28:20	24
6th	Ecuador	22:26	23
7th	Colombia	14:18	23
8th	Venezuela	23:29	22nd
9	Bolivia	22:36	15th
10	Peru	11:34	13

October 13, 2007 : Uruguay - Bolivia 5-0 (2-0)

October 17, 2007 : Paraguay 1-0 Uruguay (1-0)

November 18, 2007 : Uruguay - Chile 2-2 (1-0)

November 21, 2007 : Brazil 2-1 Uruguay (1-1)

June 14, 2008 : Uruguay - Venezuela 1: 1 (1: 0)

June 17, 2008 : Uruguay 6-0 Peru (2-0)

September 6, 2008 : Colombia - Uruguay 0: 1 (0: 1)

September 10, 2008 : Uruguay 0-0 Ecuador

October 11, 2008 : Argentina 2-1 Uruguay (2-1)

October 14, 2008 : Bolivia– Uruguay 2-2 (2-0)

March 28, 2009 : Uruguay - Paraguay 2-0 (1-0)

April 1, 2009 : Chile 0-0 Uruguay

6 June 2009 : Uruguay 0-4 Brazil (0-2)

June 10, 2009 : Venezuela 2-2 Uruguay (1-0)

September 5, 2009 : Peru - Uruguay 1-0 (0-0)

9 September 2009 : Uruguay - Colombia 3: 1 (1: 0)

October 10, 2009 : Ecuador 1-2 Uruguay (0-0)

October 14, 2009 : Uruguay 0-1 Argentina (0-0)

Relegation

November 14, 2009 : Costa Rica - Uruguay 0: 1 (0: 1)

November 18, 2009 : Uruguay - Costa Rica 1: 1 (0: 0)

Uruguayan contingent

National coach Óscar Tabárez nominated 26 players in his preliminary roster, from which he deleted Jorge Andrés Martínez (Catania Calcio), Álvaro González (Nacional Montevideo) and Jorge Marcelo Rodríguez (CA River Plate Montevideo) on May 29 .

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Fernando Muslera	Lazio Rome	06/16/1986	7th	0	0	0	0
12	Juan Guillermo Castillo	Deportivo Cali	04/17/1978	0	0	0	0	0
23	Martín Silva	Defensor Sporting Club	03/25/1983	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Diego Lugano	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	11/02/1980	6th	0	1	0	0
3	Diego Godin	Villarreal CF	02/16/1986	5	0	0	0	0
4th	Jorge Fucile	FC Porto	11/19/1984	5	0	2	0	0
6th	Mauricio Victorino	CF Universidad de Chile	10/11/1982	5	0	1	0	0
16	Maxi Pereira	Benfica Lisbon	06/08/1984	6th	1	1	0	0
19th	Andrés Scotti	CSD Colo-Colo	December 14, 1975	2	0	0	0	0
22nd	Martín Cáceres	Juventus Turin	04/07/1987	2	0	1	0	0
midfield player
5	Walter Gargano	SSC Naples	07/23/1984	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Sebastián Eguren	AIK Solna	01/08/1981	1	0	0	0	0
11	Álvaro Pereira	FC Porto	11/28/1985	6th	1	0	0	0
14th	Nicolás Lodeiro	Ajax Amsterdam	03/21/1989	3	0	0	1	0
15th	Diego Perez	AS Monaco	May 18, 1980	7th	0	2	0	0
17th	Egidio Arévalo Ríos	CA Peñarol	01/01/1982	7th	0	1	0	0
18th	Ignacio González	Valencia CF	05/14/1982	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Álvaro Fernández	CF Universidad de Chile	10/11/1985	4th	0	0	0	0
striker
7th	Edinson Cavani	US Palermo	02/14/1987	6th	1	0	0	0
9	Luis Suarez	Ajax Amsterdam	01/24/1987	6th	3	0	0	1
10	Diego Forlan	Atlético Madrid	05/19/1979	7th	5	0	0	0
13	Sebastián Abreu	Botafogo FR	10/17/1976	4th	0	0	0	0
21st	Sebastián Fernández	CA Banfield	May 23, 1985	2	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Óscar Tabarez		03/03/1947

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Uruguay	4-0	7th
2	Mexico	3: 2	4th
3	South Africa	3: 5	4th
4th	France	1: 4	1

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Uruguayan national team met the hosts South Africa , Mexico and France in Group A and qualified for the finals without conceding a goal.

• Friday June 11, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Cape Town Uruguay - France 0-0
  

• Wednesday June 16, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Tshwane / Pretoria South Africa - Uruguay 0: 3 (0: 1)
  

• Tuesday June 22, 2010; 4:00 p.m. in Rustenburg Mexico - Uruguay 0: 1 (0: 1)
  

Final round

Round of 16

• Saturday June 26, 2010; 16:00 in Port Elizabeth Uruguay - South Korea 2: 1 (1: 0)
  

Quarter finals

• Friday July 2, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Johannesburg (Soccer City) Uruguay - Ghana 1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1), 4: 2 i. E.
  

Semifinals

• Tuesday July 6, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Cape Town Uruguay - Netherlands 2: 3 (1: 1)
  

3rd place match

• Saturday July 10, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Port Elizabeth Uruguay - Germany 2: 3 (1: 1)
  

Web links

• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com
• FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: Uruguay squad ( Memento from June 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )