Uruguayan national soccer team

Republic of East Uruguay
República Oriental del Uruguay

Nickname (s)	La Celeste (The Sky Blue)
Association	Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol
confederacy	CONMEBOL
Technical sponsor	puma
Head coach	vacant (most recently Óscar Tabárez 2006 - 2020)
captain	Diego Godin
Record scorer	Luis Suarez (59)
Record player	Diego Godin (135)
Home stadium	Estadio Centenario
FIFA code	URU
FIFA rank	5. (1645 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
921 games 408 wins 219 draws 294 defeats
statistics
First international game Uruguay 0-6 Argentina ( Montevideo , Uruguay ; July 20, 1902)
Biggest win Uruguay 9-0 Bolivia ( Lima , Peru ; November 9, 1927)
Biggest defeat Uruguay 6-0 Argentina ( Montevideo , Uruguay ; July 20, 1902)
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	13 ( first : 1930 )
Best results	World champion: 1930 , 1950
South American Championship
Participation in the finals	41 ( first : 1916 )
Best results	South American champions: 1916 , 1917 , 1920 , 1923 , 1924 , 1926 , 1935 , 1942 , 1956 , 1959 (II) , 1967 , 1983 , 1987 , 1995 , 2011
Confederations Cup
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 1997 )
Best results	4th place (1997, 2013)
Olympic games gold 1924 gold 1928
(As of November 18, 2019)

The Uruguayan national soccer team represents Uruguay at soccer matches on an international level. It was one of the world's strongest national teams , especially in the early days of professional football, and is back today after a few less successful decades. It is the national soccer team with the most international titles.

From 1924 to 1930 she won five major titles in just six years: the Olympic football tournaments in Paris and Amsterdam , the first football world championship in history in 1930, and the Copa America in 1924 and 1926 . In 1950 she won the World Cup for a second time in Brazil . In 1954 and 1970 she was fourth in the World Cup, but then failed to qualify for the World Cup several times or did not get past the World Cup round of 16. It was not until 2010 that the team managed to move into the semi-finals of the World Cup and finally finished fourth again. However, in the past few decades (1942, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1983, 1987, 1995, 2011) the Uruguayan national soccer team won the Copa América as a success. With a total of 15 titles, Uruguay has been the record winner of the Copa since 2011. In June 2012 Uruguay climbed to second place in the FIFA world rankings . This ranking was the best in the country to date, but had to be handed over to Germany in July 2012.

history

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From the beginning until 1930

English workers brought the game to Uruguay in the late 19th century and football soon became a national sport. It is largely thanks to the Uruguayans that the English kick-and-rush style began to take a back seat in favor of a modern combination and dribble game.

The team from small Uruguay won the Copa America in 1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1935 . In 1919, 1922, 1927 it took second place. The class of the football country Uruguay already showed itself here.

In 1924, the Uruguayan style also led to overwhelming success on the world stage over the continental European nations: The team made up of butchers, shoe shiners and vegetable sellers traveled in 3rd grade to the Olympic Games in France. The trip was financed through mortgages and spontaneously scheduled friendly matches. In the first game of a South American team in Europe in front of about 3000 spectators, the "Urus" defeated Yugoslavia 7-0, the second game against the USA (3-0) came 10,455 spectators and the quarter-final match (5-1) against hosts France 30,868 Spectator. The 3-0 success in the final against Switzerland was finally seen by 40,522 spectators.

How superior the South American style was to the European style was shown again four years later at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam: the final took place between Uruguay and Argentina. It was only in the replay that Uruguay beat their neighbors after a goal from Hector Scarone to make it 2-1. In 1950, FIFA recognized the two Olympic victories as world championships.

The rivals from the Río de la Plata also met two years later in the final of the first World Cup . In the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, 93,000 spectators saw the 4-2 for the host. Victory Day was simply declared a public holiday .

Uruguay: Ballesteros; Mascheroni, Nasazzi; JL Andrade, Fernandez, Gestido; Dorado, Scarone, Castro, Cea, Iriarte. Argentina: Botasso; Della Torre, paternoster; J. Evaristo, Monti, Juarez; Peucelle, Varallo, Stabile, Ferreira, M. Evaristo. SR Langenus (Belgium). - Goals: 12th Dorado 1-0. 20. Peucelle 1: 1. 22. Stable 1: 2. 57. Cea 2: 2. 68. Iriarte 3: 2. 89. Castro 4-2

The outstanding player of this golden period of Uruguayan football was the charismatic José Nasazzi . The stonemason was the team captain and playmaker. The "black pearl" José Leandro Andrade , the great star of the 1924 tournament, was his congenial partner in midfield. Not to be missed are strikers Hector Scarone and Héctor Castro , who continued to score goals for Uruguay despite losing his right hand.

Soccer world championships

→ Main article : Uruguayan national soccer team / World Cups

Balance sheet

With two titles and fourth place three times, Uruguay is among the ten best national teams at soccer world championships.

1930 in Uruguay	World Champion
1934 in Italy	not participated
1938 in France	not participated
1950 in Brazil	World Champion
1954 in Switzerland	4th Place
1958 in Sweden	not qualified
1962 in Chile	Preliminary round
1966 in England	Quarter finals
1970 in Mexico	4th Place
1974 in Germany	Preliminary round
1978 in Argentina	not qualified
1982 in Spain	not qualified
1986 in Mexico	Round of 16
1990 in Italy	Round of 16
1994 in the USA	not qualified
1998 in France	not qualified
2002 in South Korea / Japan	Preliminary round
2006 in Germany	not qualified
2010 in South Africa	4th Place
2014 in Brazil	Round of 16
2018 in Russia	Quarter finals

Participation in the Summer Olympics

See also : Uruguayan National Football Team / Olympic Games

1908 in London	did not take part, the association was only admitted to FIFA in 1923
1912 in Stockholm	did not take part, the association was only admitted to FIFA in 1923
1920 in Antwerp	did not take part, the association was only admitted to FIFA in 1923
1924 in Paris	Olympic champion
1928 in Amsterdam	Olympic champion
1936 in Berlin	not participated
1948 in London	not participated
1952 in Helsinki	not participated

The amateur, Olympic and U-20 teams either failed to qualify between 1956 and 2008 or did not take part. Only for the Olympic Games in London was a Uruguayan team able to qualify again. They competed as U-23, in which there were seven senior international players. a. the current record goal scorer Luis Suárez as team captain and Edinson Cavani . The team was eliminated in the preliminary round, with Uruguay on July 29, 2012 against Senegal for the first time losing a game in an Olympic football tournament.

In 1924 and 1928 Uruguay played in the three finals with the following players:

• Goal: Mazzali
• Defenders: Arispe, Nasazzi
• Runners: Andrade , Fernández (only 1928 in the 1st final), Gestido (only 1928), Ghierra (only 1924), Plirz (only 1928 in the 2nd final), Vidal (only 1924)
• Sturm: Arremún (only 1928 in the 2nd final), Borjas (only 1928 in the 2nd final), Campolo (only 1928 in the 1st final), Castro (only 1928 in the 1st final), Cea , Figueroa (only 1928 in the 2nd final) . Finale), Petrone (1928 only in the 1st final), Romano (only 1924), Scarone (1928 only in the 2nd final), Urdinarán (1928 only in the 1st final)

(Players in bold were also in the World Cup final in 1930)

Record at the Copa America

1916 : winner 1917 : winner 1919 : finale 1920 : winner 1921 : 3. 1922 : 3. 1923 : winner

1924 : winner 1925 : did not take part 1926 : winner 1927 : final 1929 : 3. 1935 : winner 1937 : 3.

1939 : finale 1941 : finale 1942 : winner 1945 : 4. 1946 : 4. 1947 : 3. 1949 : 6.

1953 : 3. 1955 : 4. 1956 : winner 1957 : 3. 1959 (1) : 6. 1959 (2) : Winner 1963 : did not take part

1967 : winner 1975 : semi-finals 1979 : 1st round 1983 : winner 1987 : winner 1989 : final 1991 : 1st round

1993 : quarter-finals 1995 : winner 1997 : 1st round 1999 : final 2001 : 4. 2004 : 3. 2007 : 4th

2011 : winner 2015 : quarter-finals 2016 : Preliminary round (Copa América Centenario) 2019 : quarter-finals

Participation in the Confederations Cup

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1992	Saudi Arabia	not qualified
1995	Saudi Arabia	not qualified
1997	Saudi Arabia	3rd place match	Czech Republic	Fourth	Víctor Púa	Semi-final defeat against Australia by golden goal
1999	Mexico	not qualified
2001	South Korea / Japan	not qualified
2003	France	not qualified
2005	Germany	not qualified
2009	South Africa	not qualified
2013	Brazil	3rd place match	Italy	Fourth	Óscar Tabarez	In the 8: 0 in the last group game against Tahiti, Uruguay increased their own record for South American teams against oceanic team by one goal defeat in the game for third place on penalties
2017	Russia	not qualified
↑ According to the all-time ranking 1992–2009 [1] (PDF; 1.8 MB)

More Achievements

• Mundialito (1980): Winner
• Pan American Games 1983 and 2015 : Gold Medal (2015 only with players under the age of 22)
• Copa Lipton (11 ×): 1905, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1929 and 1973.
• Copa Newton (10 ×): 1912, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1929, 1930 and 1968.
• Copa Río Branco (4 ×): 1940, 1946, 1948 and 1967 (shared).
• Copa Juan Pinto Durán (6 ×): 1963, 1965, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1988.
• Copa José G. Artigas (6 ×): 1965, 1966, 1975, 1977, 1983 and 1985.
• Copa Miami (2 ×): 1986 and 1990.
• Copa Banco República (1 ×): 2010

Juniors

U-20

Main article: Uruguayan national football team (U-20 men)

• Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 (7): 1954, 1958, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981
• U-20 World Cup 2013 : Vice World Champion
• Junior Football World Cup 1997 : Vice World Champion
• Junior World Cup 1977 : 4th place

U-17

• South American Championship : Vice South American Champion 1991, 2005 and 2011
• World Championship : Vice World Champion 2011

U-15

• Vice South American Champion: 2007 and 2015

Record player

Record international

Players still active in the national team are shown in bold.

Status: November 18, 2019: (data updated based on the players' rsssf data)

#	Surname	Period	Games	Gates
1	Diego Godin	2005 – active	135	8th
2	Maxi Pereira	2005-2018	125	3
3	Edinson Cavani	2008 – active	116	50
4th	Fernando Muslera	2009 – active	116	0
5	Luis Suarez	2007 – active	113	59
6th	Diego Forlan	2002-2014	112	36
7th	Cristian Rodríguez	2003-2018	110	11
8th	Martín Cáceres	2007 – active	98	4th
9	Diego Lugano	2003-2014	95	9
10	Egidio Arévalo Ríos	2006-2017	90	0
11	Diego Perez	2001-2014	89	2
12	Alvaro Pereira	2008-2016	83	7th
13	Rodolfo Rodríguez	1976-1986	78	0
14th	Fabian Carini	1999-2009	74	0
15th	Enzo Francescoli	1982-1997	73	17th

Record goal scorers

#	player	Period	Gates	Games	cut
1	Luis Suarez	2007–	59	113	0.52
2	Edinson Cavani	2008–	50	116	0.43
3	Diego Forlan	2002-2014	36	112	0.32
4th	Héctor Scarone	1917-1930	31	52	0.60
5	Ángel Romano	1911-1927	28	69	0.41
6th	Omar Oscar Míguez	1950-1958	27	39	0.69
7th	Sebastián Abreu	1996-2012	26th	70	0.37
8th	Pedro Petrone	1923-1930	24	29	0.83
9	Carlos Aguilera	1982-1997	22nd	64	0.34
	Fernando Morena	1971-1983	22nd	53	0.42

(As of November 18, 2019)

Other well-known players

José Leandro Andrade Pablo Bengoechea José Pedro Cea Luis Cubilla Víctor Diogo Víctor Espárrago Daniel Fonseca Diego Forlan Pablo García Alcides Ghiggia

Carlos Grossmüller Nelson Gutiérrez José Herrera Juan Hohberg Walter López Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Julio Montero Castillo Paolo Montero Richard Morales José Nasazzi

Fabian O'Neill Rubén Paz Eduardo Pereira Dario Pereyra Venancio Ramos Víctor Rodríguez Andrade José Santamaría Juan Schiaffino Dario Silva Rubén Sosa

Obdulio Jacinto Varela

Coach history

1916– : Jorge Pacheco0000 1916– : Alfredo Foglino0000 1917 : Ramón Platero0000 1917– : Julián Bértola0000 1919–1920: Severino Castillo at least 1920: Ernesto Meliante 1920-1922: Ernesto Fígoli 1922-1923: Pedro Olivieri at least 1923: Leonardo De Lucca at least 1924: Pedro Zuazú 1924–1926: Ernesto Meliante at least 1926: Andrés Mazzali 1926– : Ernesto Fígoli0000 1927–1928: Luis Grecco at least 1928: Primo Giannoti at least 1930: Alberto Suppici at least January 1935: Raúl Blanco at least January and November 1937: Alberto Suppici 1940 – at least 1942: José Pedro Cea 1943-1944: Héctor Castro 1944: Emilio Servetti 1944– : Ricardo Acosta y Lara0000 1945– : José Nasazzi0000 1945– : José Pedro Cea0000 1945–1946: Aníbal Tejada 1946– : Guzmán Vila Gomensoro0000

1947: Marcelino Pérez 1947– : Juan López0000 1949– : Oscar Marcenaro0000 1950: Romeo Vázquez 1950– : Juan López0000 1955– : Juan Carlos Corazzo0000 1956: Hugo Bagnulo 1956: Roque Máspoli 1956– : Lorenzo Fernández0000 at least 1957: Juan López 1958– : Schubert Gambetta0000 1959: Héctor Castro at least December 1959: Juan Carlos Corazzo 1961–: Enrique Fernández World Cup 1962: Roberto Scarone , Hugo Bagnulo and Juan López World Cup 1962: Juan Carlos Corazzo Copa Lipton, August 1962: Juan C. Taibo Copa Pinto Durán, March 1963: Washington Etchamendi 1964 + at least May to June 1965: Rafael Milans December 1965: Juan López Copa Artigas, May 1966: Ondino Viera at least January to February 1967: Juan Carlos Corazzo Copa Rio Branco, June 1968: Juan Carlos Corazzo 1967–1969: Enrique Fernández 1969–: Juan Hohberg at least February 1971: Juan R. Faccio at least November 1971: Rodolfo Zamora

at least June to July 1973: Hugo Bagnulo 1974: Roberto Porta June 1975: Carlos Silva Cabrera September 1975: Juan Schiaffino January 1976: Walter Brienza February 1976–: José María Rodríguez February 1977: Juan Hohberg March 1977: Raúl Bentancor June 1977: Omar Borrás May 1979: Raúl Bentancor at least August to September 1981: Roque Máspoli Pan American Games 1983: Óscar Tabárez 1982–1987: Omar Borrás 1987–: Roberto Fleitas 1988: Gregorio Pérez 1988–1990: Óscar Tabárez 1991: Pedro Cubilla 1991-1993: Luis Cubilla 1993-1994: Ildo Maneiro 1994-1996: Héctor Núñez 1996-1997: Juan Ahuntchaín 1997-1998: Roque Máspoli 1997-2000: Víctor Púa 1999-2001: Daniel Passarella November 2002: Jorge da Silva 2001-2003: Víctor Púa 2003-2004: Juan Ramón Carrasco 2004-2006: Jorge Fossati 2006–2020: Óscar Tabárez

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team	occasion
1.	June 9, 1924	Paris ( )	Uruguay	3-0	Switzerland	Olympic finals
2.	June 3, 1928	Amsterdam ( )	Uruguay	4: 1	German Empire	Olympic quarter-finals
3.	May 23, 1954	Lausanne	Switzerland	3: 3	Uruguay
4th	5th June 1954	Saarbrücken	Saarland	1: 7	Uruguay
5.	3rd July 1954	Zurich ( )	Austria	3: 1	Uruguay	World Cup game for 3rd place
6th	April 11, 1962	Hamburg	FRG	3-0	Uruguay
7th	May 14, 1964	Vienna	Austria	0: 2	Uruguay
8th.	January 2, 1965	Montevideo	Uruguay	0: 2	GDR
9.	July 23, 1966	Sheffield ( )	Uruguay	0: 4	FRG	World Cup quarter-finals
10.	June 20, 1970	Mexico City ( )	FRG	1-0	Uruguay	World Cup game for 3rd place
11.	February 10, 1971	Montevideo	Uruguay	0: 3	GDR
12.	15th February 1971	Montevideo	Uruguay	1: 1	GDR
13.	May 27, 1972	Leipzig	GDR	1-0	Uruguay
14th	May 31, 1972	Rostock	GDR	0-0	Uruguay
15th	June 8, 1977	Montevideo	Uruguay	0: 2	FRG
16.	December 18, 1980	Montevideo	Uruguay	4-0	Switzerland
17th	January 29, 1985	Montevideo	Uruguay	3-0	GDR
18th	4th June 1986	Santiago de Querétaro ( )	Uruguay	1: 1	FRG	World Cup group game
19th	April 25, 1990	Stuttgart	FRG	3: 3	Uruguay
20th	December 20, 1992	Montevideo	Uruguay	1: 4	Germany
21st	October 13, 1993	Karlsruhe	Germany	5-0	Uruguay
22nd	March 3, 2010	St. Gallen	Switzerland	1: 3	Uruguay
23.	July 10, 2010	Port Elizabeth ( )	Uruguay	2: 3	Germany	World Cup game for 3rd place
24.	May 29, 2011	Sinsheim	Germany	2: 1	Uruguay
25th	5th March 2014	Klagenfurt	Austria	1: 1	Uruguay

Games against Germany

Germany and Uruguay have met eleven times so far. Uruguay's only victory was when they first met at the Olympic Games in 1928 . For Germany it was the first game against a non-European team. The later Olympic champion won the quarter-finals 4-1. Germany lost Richard Hofmann and Hans Kalb by sending off, with Kalb being the first German to be sent off in an international match. Since the Uruguayan José Nasazzi did not see the end of the game on the pitch, it is the international match with the most dismissals in German football history. The 1966 World Cup quarter-finals did not go off without being sent off. There it met the two Uruguayans Héctor Silva and Horacio Troche , who then ended up in the German leagues for a few years. At the game on October 13, 1993, Lothar Matthäus set Franz Beckenbauer's record with 103 international matches. Both teams met twice in the game for third place at a World Cup. This makes it the most common pairing in the game for third place.

National jersey

From the first international match in 1901, Uruguay had no official national jersey until 1910. So you played in the first game in the jersey of the Montevidean club Albion Football Club . In the period that followed, a large number of different jerseys were experimented with, until the official decision in honor of the River Plate Football Club , which existed between 1897 and 1929, for its alternative jersey and thus the sky-blue shirts in 1910 .

Jerseys

Period Outfitter 1978-1984 Adidas 1984-1987 Le Coq Sportif 1987-1991 puma 1992-1998 NO 1998-2004 FUF 2004-2006 Uhlsport 2007 – today puma

About the shape of the logo

The national soccer team wears four stars on its jersey: two for the World Cup titles in 1930 and 1950 and two for the victories at the Summer Olympics in Paris in 1924 and Amsterdam in 1928. The stars for the two victories in the Olympic soccer tournaments have been added since in the years 1924 and 1928 no soccer world championship was held and the two Olympic victories have the same status as a world cup title in the opinion of the Uruguayan soccer association.

See also

• List of the international matches of the Uruguayan national football team
• Copa Lipton
• Torneo America del Sud - Centenario
• Uruguayan National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
• Uruguayan National Football Team (U-20 Men)

literature

• Stefan Thimmel: Uruguay. Nostalgia and crisis in the country of the two-time world champions · »I am crazy about football«. A conversation with Eduardo Galeano . In: Dario Azzellini , Stefan Thimmel Futbolistas. Football and Latin America: Hopes, Heroes, Politics and Commerce. Association A, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-935936-46-X .

Web links

Commons : Uruguayan national soccer team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the association
• Profile on the official FIFA website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Olympia Siege , report on dailymail.co.uk from June 21, 2014, page in English, accessed on July 15, 2018
3. ↑ Facts Sheet - FIFA World Cup ^TM : All-time ranking (PDF; 126 kB). FIFA
4. ↑ Title shared with Paraguay
5. ↑ José Luis Pierrend: Copa Artigas. In: RSSSF . September 30, 1998, accessed May 26, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Statistics of the international matches of Uruguayan international players on rsssf.com (as of November 20, 2018)
7. ↑ Histórico de Entrenadores , on.org.uy
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax} Juan Ramón Carrasco es el 44º técnico de la Selección (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy on June 12, 2003, accessed on November 10, 2016
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Los 45 partidos mas nefastos (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy from February 22, 2004, accessed on November 10, 2016
10. ↑ South American Championship 1959 (2nd Tournament) on rsssf.com, accessed on November 8, 2016
11. ↑ Uruguay on fifa.com, accessed November 8, 2016
12. ↑ Uruguay - World Cup Qualifiers on rsssf.com, accessed November 7, 2016
13. ↑ South American Championship 1967 on rsssf.com, accessed on November 8, 2016
14. ↑ Uruguay - World Cup Qualifiers on rsssf.com, accessed November 7, 2016
15. ↑ Uruguay - World Cup Qualifiers on rsssf.com, accessed November 7, 2016
16. ↑ Uruguay - World Cup Qualifiers on rsssf.com, accessed November 7, 2016
17. ↑ Uruguay - World Cup Qualifiers on rsssf.com, accessed November 7, 2016
18. ↑ DFB.de: duels against Uruguay: slap, Overath, Olympia
19. ↑ Wayback Machine. November 11, 2012, accessed July 3, 2018 .