I was fortunate enough to go a couple Uruguayan national team matches when I was here before. We got to go on Tuesday night to see Uruguay play Colombia in a World Cup Qualifying match. Colombia was tied for first in the South American group. Uruguay was ranked 5th. The top four go to the World Cup. The fifth will go to a playoff with the 5th place Asian team. ANYWAY... Uruguay was expected to lose, but instead they won 2-0. This was particularly exciting because Uruguay was missing several of their best players because of injuries or yellow cards. The weather was really nice (almost hot) and we had a great time with the crowd and the win.
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| Our group, minus Travis, after the game. |
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| Two of my favorites: Lugano, the team captain, and Forlan one of the best Uruguayo players ever couldn't play. Lugano because he received a second yellow card in the last match and Forlan because of injury. |
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| Singing the national anthem |
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| Start of the game. |
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| As the second half started, I managed to catch Muslera, the Uruguayo goal keeper, pat the ref as he ran out. |
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| Celebrating the first goal |
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| Celebrating the second goal. |
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| Celebrating the win. |
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