Uruguay Football Formation

Lineup (4-2-4)

Ladislao Mazurkiewicz · Obdulio Varela (c) · José Santamaría · José Andrade · Paolo Montero · Luís Cubilla · Pedro Rocha · Diego Forlán · Alcides Ghiggia · Juan Schiaffino · Enzo Francescoli

Uruguay's "Greatest XI of All Time"

Uruguay is a small nation known to be playing an exhilarating brand of Football, which they call "La Nuestra". They won the first World Cup in 1930 beating Argentina, was a testimony of their balanced attack and organised defence, even in the very early days of Football.

Uruguay's continuous domination in the "Copa América" (they are have won it 15 times) is the result of their abundant Football talents and deep understanding of their own brand of Football.

Interestingly the two World Cups that Uruguay won, they have beaten Argentina and Brazil - their more famous South American neighbours, in the finals in 1930 and 1950 respectively.

Later days of Football rule changes and tactical changes have seen increasingly defensive, negative and violent aggressive play from Uruguay (known as anti-football), moving away from their "la garra charrúa" Football that gained them fans everywhere. However, Uruguay always produced players of great individual talents (which is why the reserve bench here is so big), and backed them up in a good composed tactical movement (Uruguay is known to be the foremost exponent of Scottish styled short passing Football). This is the primary reason why despite being a nation of only 3 millions, Uruguay went on to win two World Cups (Uruguay is the smallest in South America, both in size and population).


Coach/Manager : Alberto Suppici, Juan López Fontana, Juan Carlos Corazzo and Óscar Tabárez.

Reserves include : José Nasazzi, Rubén Paz, Santos Iriarte, Rubén Sosa, Rodolfo Rodríguez, Víctor Andrade, Pedro Cea, Pedro Petrone, Álvaro Recoba and Héctor Scarone.