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Seriously, here is the president picking some weed.  Group D  Times listed are GMT+1. Anyway Uruguay is a South American country which shouldn't get mixed up with Argentina. Been in the world cup 12 times, have won 2 world cups (1930 and 1950) aswell as winning the South American equivalent of UEFA Euro 15 times (916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1983, 1987, 1995, 2011). Uruguay's football team also hasn't changed their home kit colours / main design since 1910. And currently on the FIFA ranking at 6th.  The Squad GK  1. Fernando Muslera, aged 27 plays for the Turkish club Galatasaray. Also enjoys posting food online, 57 caps.  12. Rodrigo Martín Muñoz Salomón. aged 32, 0 caps, gotta get swole!  23 Martín Silva, aged 31, 4 caps (even though he was in Uruguay national under-17 football team and the Uruguay national under-20 football team prior). Brazilian club Vasco da Gama and he's 'that annoying guy' who keeps showing you baby photos. DF  2. Diego Lugano (captain) 33, isn't in any club at the moment but last club he played for was West Bromwich Albion. 93caps and 9 goals with Uruguay. Uruguay on the left.  3. Diego Godín 28, Atlético Madrid defender. Can not take Football Coming Home Lightly.  4. Sebastián Coates, Liverpool Defender  13. Jorge Fucile, F.C. Porto defender 29 and still kickin' the soulpatch. 41 capes.  16. Victorio Maximiliano "Maxi" Pereira Páez, club Benfica  19. José María Giménez de Vargas, Atletico Madrid, he being scouted hard  22. Martín Cáceres, Juventus F.C.. Aged 27 MF  5. Walter Gargano, plays for Parma soon to be Parmo  6. Álvaro Pereira, São Paulo FC again. He gets bored really fast and chances his hair style.  7. Cristian Rodríguez, another Atlético Madrid player. His nickname is Cebolla (onion) because of his dad.  14. Nicolás Lodeiro, currently plays for Corinthians. Uruguayan Monster!  15. Diego Pérez, old man aged 34 Bologna  17. Egidio Arévalo Ríos PARMO  18. Gastón Ramírez, club Southampton  20. Álvaro Rafael González Luengo plays for Lazio in the Italian Serie A FW  8. Christian Stuani, THE MASK 2.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am1_8KdQzVQ  9. Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz, plays for liverpool. Got fined £40,000 fine for racism towards Patrice Evra, known cannibal trying to eat Branislav Ivanovic DURING the match. Keep that for a home lads! Other wacky and zany poo poo. He's gonna try and eat some English meat.  10. Diego Forlán plays for Cerezo Osaka in Japan as he enjoys "soapland" and "anime".  11. Abel Hernández. True parmo, this is you guys, right here. Parmo guy!  21. Edinson Cavani, plays for Paris Saint-Germain F.C. He finished his first season with 25 goals in 43 games across all competitions, including 16 in 30 league games. His elder brother is striker Walter Guglielmone. Also Manchester United & Chelsea are interested in him. The key players Strikers Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani have become the standard bearers for Uruguayan football and the national team over the last couple of years. The Liverpool man ended the South American preliminaries as the leading scorer with 11 goals, and was the second most-used player by coach Oscar Tabarez. The deadly duo have plenty of ballast behind them, with the vastly experienced Diego Lugano directing rearguard operations with aplomb, and Fernando Muslera providing a safe pair of hands between the posts. Even so, after an often-troubled qualifying campaign El Maestro Tabarez will no doubt be looking to shuffle his pack and build up some momentum ahead of Brazil 2014.  Current coach: Oscar Washington Tabarez, Uruguay born and breed. Played defender for Sud América, Sportivo Italiano (Argentina), Montevideo Wanderers, Fénix, Puebla in Mexico and Bella Vista. Then managed: 1980–1983 Bella Vista 1983 Uruguay U20 1984 Danubio 1985–1986 Montevideo Wanderers 1987 Peñarol 1987 Uruguay U20 1988 Deportivo Cali 1988–1990 Uruguay 1991–1993 Boca Juniors 1993–1994 Peñarol 1994–1995 Cagliari 1996 Milan 1997–1998 Oviedo 1998–1999 Cagliari 2001 Vélez Sársfield 2002 Boca Juniors 2006– Uruguay 2012 Uruguay Olympic How do they play? Style & formation: As qualifying went on, coach Oscar Tabarez settled on a pragmatic 4-4-2. The industrious Edinson Cavani leads the line, with Luis Suarez given licence to roam. Tabarez, however, is not afraid to switch formations, doing so in away matches and during the Confederations Cup to counteract the opposition, including playing 3-5-2 and 4-3-3. Expect him to vary it up in Brazil. Strengths: In Luis Suarez, Edinson Cavani and the evergreen Diego Forlan, Uruguay possess magnificent striking options. Highlights: Italy edge out Uruguay in Confederations Cup Oscar Tabarez has also reintroduced the Uruguayan characteristic 'garra' - an inner belief that they are tougher than their opponent, both technically and mentally. Weaknesses: An ageing Uruguay defence conceded 25 goals in qualifying (16 away). Experienced centre-back pairing Diego Godin and captain Diego Lugano can have their lack of pace exposed and are prone to committing fouls once beaten. Uruguay could do with Liverpool defender Sebastian Coates to return fit and well from his anterior cruciate injury and recapture the excellent form he showed at the 2011 Copa America. If they aren't all stoned, they have quite a good chance of winning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8emMTOFkhp0 
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Diego Lugano is honestly useless and somehow managed to look a liability even in our complete shitshow of a defence. So you better hope that Suarez and Cavani can outscore the number of defensive errors he makes... and even with those 2 up-front you'll be lucky. I can't believe he's the captain.
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Jun 2, 2014 11:13
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Bit disappointed that Polidoro hasn't showed up. Also, the famous "garra charrúa" is just a nice way to say "kick and punch everyone, leave no man standing".
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Jun 2, 2014 14:18
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Thanks for making the thread Fluo, but you forgot about Cáceres:Thirteenth Step posted:Diego Lugano He's poo poo, op. He's the captain because he's supposed to be a positive leader for the group and Tabárez is an idiot and keeps calling up players to do his job for him. He's been making Godín and Maxi Pereira look bad (or worse than they are in the case of Maxi) since before the Copa America started. Only a broken leg against Slovenia this week can save us. SandersPacheco posted:Also, the famous "garra charrúa" is just a nice way to say "kick and punch everyone, leave no man standing". It used to be like that, then Tabárez came and the charrúas have been declawed. We even won the fair play trophy in the last Copa América ffs! This play made it ok, though. I think we won't beat Costa Rica because not only we are poo poo, we are especially poo poo on the first game of every tournament we play.
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Jun 3, 2014 02:51
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I'll be sipping my yerba mate as I watch Uruguay and my favorite player, Luis Suarez (probably not play because he's hurt)
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Jun 3, 2014 02:59
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Baldo di Gregorio posted:I'll be sipping my yerba mate as I watch Uruguay and my favorite player, Luis Suarez (probably not play because he's hurt) So say he should be ready be ready for the England game but its not 100% confirmed yet. Also hopefully sometime tonight will get around to adding the rest of the players going to the world cup who aren't number 1-12.
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Jun 3, 2014 03:03
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Suarez started weight training and continuous walking today. They are pretty optimist about him playing against Costa Rica. I don't think he'll play even if he's fit. The front line will be Cavani, Forlan and Stuani with Cavani or Stuani actually playing right back as usual.
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Jun 3, 2014 03:13
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I hope that Alvaro 'El Flaco' Fernandez can make the squad again  Loved watching him play for my Seattle Sounders FC. Currently, he plays for Gimnasia La Plata in Argentina.
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Jun 3, 2014 05:49
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Well, he didn't. Here's the definitive 23 man squad: ARQUEROS Muslera, Fernando – Galatasaray (Turquía) Silva, Martín – Vasco Da Gama (Brasil) Muñoz, Rodrigo – Libertad (Paraguay) DEFENSORES Lugano, Diego – West Bromwich Albion (Inglaterra) Godín, Diego – Atlético de Madrid (España) Giménez, José María – Atlético de Madrid (España) Cáceres, Martín – Juventus (Italia) Pereira, Maximiliano – Benfica (Portugal) Fucile, Jorge – Porto (Portugal) Coates, Sebastián – Nacional (Uruguay) VOLANTES Arévalo Ríos, Egidio – Morelia (México) Gargano, Walter – Parma (Italia) Pérez, Diego – Bologna (Italia) González, Álvaro – Lazio (Italia)) Pereira, Álvaro – San Pablo (Brasil) Rodríguez, Cristian – Atlético de Madrid (España) Ramírez, Gastón – Southampton (Inglaterra) Lodeiro, Nicolás – Botafogo (Brasil) ATACANTES Cavani, Edinson – P.S.G. (Francia) Suárez, Luis – Liverpool (Inglaterra) Forlán, Diego – Cerezo Osaka (Japón) Hernández, Abel – Palermo (Italia) Stuani, Christian – Espanyol (España) Quite a lot of poo poo players, not as poo poo as el flaco Fernández, though.
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Jun 3, 2014 05:58
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Polidoro posted:Well, he didn't. Here's the definitive 23 man squad: I'm working on it!!
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Jun 3, 2014 06:03
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Polidoro posted:Well, he didn't. Here's the definitive 23 man squad: Sadness. At least he was my poo poo player.
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Jun 3, 2014 06:10
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Ok added them all.
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Jun 3, 2014 07:33
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Uruguay are the current Unofficial Football World Champions and if they don't lose to Slovenia in their last warm up match they will be taking their title into the world cup. Exciting stuff.
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Jun 4, 2014 20:57
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Half of those players look fat as hell
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Jun 4, 2014 22:05
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Uruguay - Slovenia is on. Last chance for Lugano to get injured.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:39
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Arevalo Rios is fat as hell and this new super tight kit isn't doing him any favors.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:41
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Uruguay won 2-0. Our defense seems shaky but Cavani is playing well and Stuani can't stop scoring.
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Jun 5, 2014 02:55
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Tabarez announced the team to start against Costa Rica tomorrow (in code tags!):code:Also, Muslera was attacked by ants last night in his bed: https://twitter.com/1_Muslera_25/status/477433380385349632/photo/1
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Jun 13, 2014 23:41
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So that Red Card was pretty lol?
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Jun 15, 2014 01:09
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Fluo posted:So that Red Card was pretty lol? i loved it
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Jun 15, 2014 01:17
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Gas thread, ban OP.
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Jun 15, 2014 02:56
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lolPolidoro posted:this group will be decided by who scores the most against uruguay
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Jun 15, 2014 02:59
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Well that was a complete disaster. Thoughts on the England match? BTW, I'm primarily a US supporter but my stepdad (who adopted me) is from Uruguay in case you are doubting my credentials 
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Jun 15, 2014 07:23
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So much for the "dark horse"... I don't see Uruguay getting more than 0 points this WC. As evidenced by the red card, they don't have the character to persist. Italy and England to progress, with Costarica a greater hurdle than Uruguay.
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Jun 15, 2014 11:12
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vulturesrow posted:Well that was a complete disaster. Thoughts on the England match? BTW, I'm primarily a US supporter but my stepdad (who adopted me) is from Uruguay in case you are doubting my credentials Tell your dad I'm sorry about our poo poo team. About England, I really don't see us doing anything. Players said they had no physical response to try and tie the game against Costa Rica. If they can't run on their first game I don't think they'll do it on their second one. Seems like Tabárez forgot that the only thing sort of keeping it together for the team was the amount of running around our midfield guys made every game. The guys can't run like that anymore and he doesn't change anything. I guess he got old and stubborn, it's been 8 years after all.
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Jun 15, 2014 17:04
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Lugano is a loving garbageman god drat
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Jun 15, 2014 17:42
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Polidoro posted:Tell your dad I'm sorry about our poo poo team. Well I haven't talked to him since he moved back to Uruguay, but thanks. vivisectvnv posted:Lugano is a loving garbageman god drat Looks like said garbageman is out tomorrow, will Tabarez be forced to play someone good?
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Jun 18, 2014 17:25
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It's all pretty weird right now. Lugano was asked in a press conference about getting an ice treatment on his knee and he got pretty mad about it because nobody knew but players and some FA people and someone told the press. I think it's pretty funny how it only took one loss for this supposedly great group of people to start falling apart.
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Jun 18, 2014 17:56
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Polidoro posted:It's all pretty weird right now. Lugano was asked in a press conference about getting an ice treatment on his knee and he got pretty mad about it because nobody knew but players and some FA people and someone told the press. Who is the most likely replacement?
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Jun 18, 2014 18:02
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Well, it's either Coates or Jose Maria Giménez for Lugano. Neither of them played much during the season. Coates did his ACL and only started playing recently and josema is 19 and has been warming the bench for Atlético Madrid the whole season. We also need to replace maxi pereira because he is suspended, we could play Alvaro Pereira and move Cáceres to the right or play Fucile on the right. Fucile hasn't played for Porto in months and Alvaro Pereira sucks pretty hard.
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Jun 18, 2014 18:24
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Is Luis Suarez's 2010 handball considered cheating? Read some article about Ghana because schadenfreude and came across the 2010 event and I'm a little confused as to why people think it's cheating? I mean, he committed a penalty, got a red card and was duly penalized; better question, what would be considered cheating in football besides doing pulling a Shoeless Joe and throwing a game?
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Jun 18, 2014 19:11
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Furious Lobster posted:Is Luis Suarez's 2010 handball considered cheating? Read some article about Ghana because schadenfreude and came across the 2010 event and I'm a little confused as to why people think it's cheating? I mean, he committed a penalty, got a red card and was duly penalized; better question, what would be considered cheating in football besides doing pulling a Shoeless Joe and throwing a game? It was and wasn't "cheating". He committed a foul knowing he'd get sent off and Ghana hosed it up.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:12
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tbp posted:It was and wasn't "cheating". He committed a foul knowing he'd get sent off and Ghana hosed it up. So it's cheating to purposefully to commit a foul? Genuinely curious here.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:14
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It's gamesmanship.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:15
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Furious Lobster posted:So it's cheating to purposefully to commit a foul? Genuinely curious here. I mean that depends on your point of view. I thought it was clever at the time and the right move (this was before Suarez went to Liverpool too). Others more aggrieved by it will be more vitriolic.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:16
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tbp posted:I mean that depends on your point of view. I thought it was clever at the time and the right move (this was before Suarez went to Liverpool too). Others more aggrieved by it will be more vitriolic. I also agree with your impression in that it was a clever strategic move that made it possible for Uruguay to move on. Thanks for the clarification!
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Jun 18, 2014 19:19
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Cheating-versus-gamesmanship is a bit difficult to define, but I think the difference is that a cheater is trying to avoid detection/punishment for whatever he's doing, while Suarez correctly weighed that the benefits of breaking a rule were greater than the penalties for doing so.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:21
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Cheating-versus-gamesmanship is a bit difficult to define, but I think the difference is that a cheater is trying to avoid detection/punishment for whatever he's doing, while Suarez correctly weighed that the benefits of breaking a rule were greater than the penalties for doing so. Yeah. If the ghana player makes that penalty, then all accusations of cheating go out the door imo. It's lovely and everyone wanted to see Ghana win, but Suarez just played the rules of the game correctly, even if its distasteful.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:50
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Brazilian press reporting that customs have held up 39 kilos of dulce de leche belonging to tbe Uruguayan nt.
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joepinetree posted:Brazilian press reporting that customs have held up 39 kilos of dulce de leche belonging to tbe Uruguayan nt. shameful sabotage
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