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As far as South American football goes, the Uruguay national football team
is one of the continent's most successful having won not one but two FIFA World
Cups, including the inaugural World Cup in 1930 (which was hosted in Uruguay),
beating Argentina by 4-2.
Uruguay's second World Cup victory came in 1950 in Brazil, when it beat the
hosts by 2-1. Although the Uruguay national football team has not won a World
Cup final since, it has finished fourth in the competition twice - in 1954 and
1970.
Uruguay's national side has also racked many other great football achievements,
including coming home with the Gold Medal for football in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics, before the FIFA World Cup was launched. It has also won the coveted Copa América a record 14 times (along with Argentina), which is a South
America's premier annual football competition governed by the South American
football confederation, CONMEBOL.
One of the main reasons why Uruguay's national football squad garners so much
respect from the rest of the footballing world - despite only qualifying for the
World Cup once during the last 4 competitions - is that the country boasts such
a small population (less than 4 million), and yet has managed to yield some of
the world's most talented footballers.
Just a few Uruguay's most noteworthy players over the last century include Jose
Nasazzi, Obdulio Varela, Angel Romano, Oscar Miguez, Pedro Petrone, Sebastian
Abreu, Jose Piendibene, Carlos Aguilera, Fernando Morena, Hector Castro and many
more.
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