Uruguayan Football Blog
Peñarol continued their domestic dominance on Sunday after a convincing 4-1 win over River Plate at Campeón del Siglo, ending a 5 game winless streak against the darseneros. The game had it all: an incorrectly disallowed Fidel Martínez goal, a penalty not given to the home side, and a Cebolla Rodriguez golazo and red card in the space of a minute. Continue reading “Apertura 2018: Round 2 highlights”
All goals and individual match highlights from the first round of the 2018 Uruguayan season. The three candidates for the title, Peñarol, Defensor and Nacional all off to winning starts.
Uruguay entered the 1916 Campeonato Sudamericano in Buenos Aires seeking not only redemption, but reaffirmation. Of course, they there to avenge the humiliating 4-1 defeat suffered against Argentina at the Revolución de Mayo tournament six years earlier. More important though, as with previous international contests, Continue reading “African professionals? Uruguay’s Black stars of the 1916 Copa America”
In 1964, Mario Benedetti described football as anesthesia. It was a social drug, co-opted and exploited by governments who encouraged the people to forget their problems. If only for ninety minutes, football was an escape from social and economic uncertainties that would otherwise control one’s life. Five years later, Benedetti’s words still held true. Continue reading “Football and Revolution “
Uruguayans always looked to the British. Since those early days in the open spaces of Punta Carretas, the Uruguayan’s relationship with the game of the ‘crazy English’ evolved from curiosity, to admiration, to imitation. Given the opportunity, the Uruguayan took the game and made it their own. They say from there developed that famous, home-grown Creole style, Continue reading “The 1909 Tottenham-Everton tour of the River Plate”
Carlos Scarone was born in barrio Peñarol, Montevideo, not long after his father arrived from Savona, Italy in 1887. The entire Scarone family, headed by Don Giuseppe, became immersed and enamoured in the local Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club, known simply as Peñarol. Continue reading “Manyas: the origin of a Peñarol nickname”
You could hardly believe it. Arturo Vidal, one of Chile’s main men, involved in a serious car accident involving his wife, his Ferrari, and within minutes, an entire nation. He had been drinking, and was travelling at an extremely high speed. For Vidal, his wife, and others to survive such an accident was unbelievable. Continue reading “Chile 2015, Uruguay 1955”
