Arriba charruas! - Uruguay off to World Cup

With a last World Cup mark up for grabs, Uruguay overcame associate Latin Americans Costa Rica in a dual game series.

After a drab 1-0 win in San Jose, los charruas returned to Montevideo with a believe which a tie would be enough to send them to South Africa. Yet los ticos fought valiantly as well as kept a Uruguayans upon their toes with countless scoring chances. In a end, Sebastian Abreus powerful header in a 70th minute was vital for a Uruguayans to book their sheet in subsequent years World Cup.

(As you can see in a highlights below, a match would finish 1-1 as well as Uruguay won a series 2-1 upon aggregate):


Uruguay thus joins Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Honduras, as well as a U.S. as a Americas representatives to a World Cup.

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