i think we should use bueno n forlan/cheva up front
then recoba behind them
n in left wing, we have regueiro, c.rodriguez n sanchez
all r gr8
n in rite, i would choose varela n estoyanoff as the super sub!
n garcia n sosa in mid!

Has dario sliva retired now?

They need a better coach. They have some of the worlds best players Forlan, Cheverton, Recoba, Luguano. It's obviously coaching strategies. If there is no reform in the coaching the players will end up playing for other nations IMO. They can't legacy remain dead. Sure yes beating Argentina and Brazil raises pride but they are inconsistent. Uruguay is supposed to be 1 of the top 3 in SA.

There weakness now is in there midfield. They focus so much on attack that the team burn themselves out.

he raw power!
gr8 point
i liked ur point
ya they should focus in mid
they give a lot of burden 2 garcia
we need 2 holding mids
garcia and sosa(pouso,de los santos,delgado,perodi,etc)
n up front, we can use 3 players
with recoba as forward n forlan n bueno or cheva the strikers
this is my formation!

carini
bijera lugano dario rodriguez

garcia sosa

varela(estoyanoff) recoba regueiro/caballo/sanchez

forlan bueno

howzz that?
on the bench, we may have zalayeta, canobbio, olivera, delos santos, sanchez n perez

dont even bother it would b a waste of time, besides why does a team with a divine right need to rebuild

Has Francescoli thought of being a nt coach?

we need a european coach who changes our shitty mentality and makes us play a faster modern soccer. Salgueiro needs to play for sure.

Go Uruguay! You guys rock!

Kewell is so great, he still wanted to be his mate.
But too bad he was still lying on the ground, from Kewell's previous POUND.

u still got it on? whats the point of qualifying and being eliminated in the first or second stage just like we did in 2002.

these rude australian fans can all suck a you know what. ur-gay. please have some more respect, come back and talk to us when you win a world cup game. then come back and maybe well pretend to be impressed. then after that, try and win a world cup! Get two, and then well talk. But whats the point you guys should stick to rugby anyways

Whoa, please settle down a bit. He is just commenting on an actual play from the game. Please no insults to other members.

I'm not sure what jasianoronaldo is so proud of. That is clearly a dirty play, yet he is calling attention to it. Nothing to be proud of in my opinion.

Let's not get side tracked. Back to the subject. I am quite curious to hear other ideas on this as I was extremely surprised to see Ecuador finish ahead of Uruguay. I still haven't figured that one out.

I love you too

we dont need to talk, our players talked with their boots proving who is the better nation in football terms today

i have never watched salgueiro play
how does he play?
wat is his position!
is he a winger, forward, midfielder or a finisher?
what r his abilities n skills?
it would b gr8 if anyone give me information about him
n how old is he?

"our players talked with our boots"

Fifa talked with its money and its dying need to have Australia back in the World Cup so that "soccer" wouldnt be killed in Australia. That would explain the fact that in the 1st leg Uruguay had two penalties that werent called. All things considered we have more talent, more tradition, and better football, what Australia had was the support of a pro-europe FIFA, which will see to it that Europe wins this summer. How do you do that? By preventing good teams from other continents from showing up. I.E. Cameroon,Uruguay,Senegal

Are you saying that FIFA prevented Cameroon & Senegal from coming? I don't see how. Africa gets, what, 5 teams? Cameroon just needed to convert a PK, which they missed. As a result, a good Ivory Coast team is going instead of Cameroon. Not sure what Senegal's problem was.

As far as the Uruguay vs. Australia tie is concerned...I didn't watch either game so I don't know whom outplayed whom. BUt then again, Uruguay wasn't stellar in qualifying. I should think that they could out perform a very mediocre Ecuadorian team.

I don't see how Uruguay was kept out of the WC by anyone other than themselves.

wow you are cracked

first off we call it football, and its not dying in Australia, we have a new league and we get crowds of around 25,000 to sydney Fc games

second, i can't see why fifa would go out of its way to help Australia to the WC, considering teams like Ireland, turkey and greece didn't qualify.

third, ref's decisions in the first leg were not biased, if anything the ref was more on your side

and last thing is, you made it last time to the WC, this time we beat you fair and square

The ref was on our side????? then how do you justify two CLEAR penalties turned down in the 1st leg?
If we talk in specifics you have no case......also do you know who Frank Farina is ? HE was the coach of Australia the first time around, he himself was saying that the elimination was a big blow to soccer in australia, and it was all over the australian press. also FIFA supports Australia for this reason, and doesnt have to worry about the likes of Turkey and Greece because football rule supreme there. And if you call it football then why are they called the SOCCEROOS yeah sure we should believe that one.........australia were fortunate to have FIFA support but then again, FIFA has been hard on South america, just look at the last time a world cup was held there: 1978, and find out what happened in 1966 in the quarterfinals, do your research and youll see that FIFA is more than competent at playing the corrupt Football board.

P.S. Remember in the second leg when the Australian player elbowed Recoba in the face WITHOUT THE BALL? thats a red card offense, and he was let off with a yellow. Many press releases had something to say about that as well

so let me get this straight,

your theory is that fifa are pro europe, when there are south americans running fifa as well as european.....and that because they are pro europe they wanted to support australia, which isn't a european country and enable them to win both legs of fifa WC qualifier by having two corrupt referee so that they could not kill football in australia, which is already booming, considering that we have a new football league called the a-league, which gets consistent crowds, close to maximum capacity in most games......

hmm lets think about that......

Or we could think that Australia does have a few good players and that your main playmakers like racoba played quite poor and if i wasn't mistaken was subbed in the 2nd leg, we had an excellent world class coach Guus Hiddink and the atmostphere at the second leg was something on par with the atmostphere you'll probably experience at a Uruaguay vs Argentina game (minus the flairs)

P.S i'll accept the socceroos, what happened was that football had to be called soccer back in the 70's becase we already have 3 other codes of football

AFL- Australian Football League (www.afl.com.au)
NRL - National Rugby league (www.nrl.com)
Super 14- Rugby union (www.rugby.com.au)

its now called football, as it should of been

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"country and enable them to win both legs of fifa WC qualifier by having two corrupt referee so that they could not kill football in australia, which is already booming, considering that we have a new football league called the a-league, which gets consistent crowds, close to maximum capacity in most games......"

first of all, australia didnt win the 1st leg, uruguay did, and yes that is my theory, who is a bigger threat to Europe winning it all this year Uruguay with its history and talent, or Australia? You also said something interesting, you said a "new league" yes that goes with waht im saying, and the fact that you went on to name 3 rugby leagues, proves my point, soccer is low on the list in Australia fifa wants to change that.

also you have said nothing about the two clear penalties not called in the 1st leg, why dont you enlighten us as to why they werent called? To me its pretty clear. Fifa has always had it in for teams NOT NAMED BRAZIL, in South america, look at Argentina's draw in the last two world cups and compare it to Brazil. Why do I bring Brazil up? because FIFA is about the money, they need to sell tickets, Australia is a bigger audience, as is THE WILDLY POPULAR BRAZIL and they want to also raise soccer popularity there. Dont get me wrong, Australia played valiantly, particularly the second game, but the blatant poor officiating, that DIRECTLY AFFECTED THE OUTCOME for Uruguay is pretty hard to explain. TAKE A LOOK AT SOUTH KOREA AT THE LAST WORLD CUP FOR MORE ON FIFA'S MONEY OBSESSION

P.S. once again do some research on this matter, this isnt the first time FIFA screws over South America. delve into the 1966 World Cup for that.

(and honestly that was a red card, it just occured to me you wont speak on that either, I feel if you are so confident that Australia justly won you would at least respond to these claims)

the first game, i watched on tv, one of the penalties should of been called but didn't, but hey thats soccer

the second game, i was there so i couldn't see the replays of it to give my view



are you talking about this game or 'fifa against south america'

lol this guy is cracked, he thinks the world cup draw is rigged against all south americans other than brazil, but argentina still gets through to the next round but cant beat all the teams there, does he think that the games when argentina has lost in the last world cups we're rigged aswell, lmfao thats the funniest most naive thing i've ever heard

hey CWAIG, look up 1966, sorry pal, i mean its pretty clear what happened in the quarterfinals,
we call that EVIDENCE ....hopefully you do or else im afraid its you thats cracked....

Then by that token, can't we argue that FIFA is pro-south american? I mean, what about Maradona's "hand of God?"

let's not talk about about past!
let's talk about future uruguay squad that will b playing the qualifyings!
players like montero and silva will not b there!
but we may still have recoba, forlan, garcia, bueno and chevanton, varela, regueiro and zalayeta, sosa
we also have tons of youth players!
like cabolla, ruben olivera, salgueiro, vargas, sanchez, perez
i think we should use canobbio!
he is celta's best player!
wat do ya guys think?

let's not talk about about past!
let's talk about future uruguay squad that will b playing the qualifyings!
players like montero and silva will not b there!
but we may still have recoba, forlan, garcia, bueno and chevanton, varela, regueiro and zalayeta, sosa
we also have tons of youth players!
like cabolla, ruben olivera, salgueiro, vargas, sanchez, perez
i think we should use canobbio!
he is celta's best player!
wat do ya guys think?

I think the hand of god goal is very different then what happened in 1966, in one case you had a deliberate rigging by the English/Germans, in the other case you had a referee who was unable to see a clear handball, surely theres a difference between something that happens in the field of play, (mistake by a referee), to something that is premeditated like 1966. Also notice which you hear more about, that tells you something in and of itself. And how can they be pro south american? when they kick out Maradona for using a nasal spray in 94, when Uruguay gets out of 2002 by two goals that werent goals (against Senegal) one being offside, the other being a dubious decision by the referee to award a penalty. (Uruguay would tie the game 3-3.) There is a history of Fifa interventions that have left the South American Conmebol very unhappy, just think that in Maradona's case. never before had a player been kicked out of a world cup for similar offenses. How was Argentina doing in that world cup? They had won their first 3 games, beating a notable team like Nigeria.

As for the future of Uruguay, Uruguay will always be able to maintain a good team, they have a tradition that is really unrivaled anywhere, since they are the pioneers of world football. I see Cristian Rodriguez being a force in the coming years, like wise I'd like to see Alberto Acosta be given a chance, as well the kid from Nacional whos name escapes me who scored two goals against Pumas the other day. Chory Castro I think. And I think you are right about Canobbio, solid player, and showing why Valencia picked him up in the first place.

I think De Los Santos is quite good. He should be a starter. Up front Forlan and Chevanton. Bueno is just not so good, in my opinion.

i think bueno is a superb player with solid dribbling and pace n also finishing. but i respect your opinion!@
but whozz acosta?
never heard of him...... can anyone help me 2 know about him better? his position and strenght???
n wat do ya guys think about ruben olivera and salgueiro???

i heard that 2 uruguayan youstarlets have been wanted by inter milan
their name are ribas and garcia, both are 17 years old
but i don't know much about them!
can anyonw help me!