La Celeste has done it for the 15th time, smashing Paraguay 3 – 0 in a brilliant demonstration of team work and star individualities. What a game by Luis Suarez & Diego Forlan & Arevalo Rios! Uruguay played its best game during the final, it’s 15th win in 21 Copa America finals….talk about a successful track record in winning the games that count. The 3rd goal is absolutely fantastic with a triple combination between Cavani, Suarez and Forlan. If this team keeps its coach and most of the existing players, can we expect a Maracanazo III in 2014? What a better video of the highlights of the final than the one commented by the unique, the only, the real Victor Hugo Morales. Or do you prefer how Carlos Munoz shouts them?
Today there are 3.5 million Maracanazos!
Fully agree with your comments on value of teamwork.
Mr.Tabarez, la CELESTE’s trainer for the last 3-4 years, has been able to build a team, this has not been the case for years in Argentina and Brazil.
It is the first time,since the late 50′s(!), that Uruguayan football fans can remember by heart the 14 top players that have regularly composed the national team that ended 4th in South Africa’s World Cup and won this Copa América (Uruguay is now 5th in FIFA’s very complicated ranking)
Finally ,all Uruguayan teams that were successfull had great captains like Obdulio Varela in1950 and Diego Lugano now,it is part of the great tradition of the “charrua garra” ( Uruguayan indians’ ‘”courage”)