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Here are the 13 highest-paid players in the 2018 World Cup. According to Forbes’ 2018 list of the world’s 100 highest-paid athletes – that includes all earnings from June 1, 2017 to June 1 ...
Uruguay hosted and won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930, beating Argentina 4–2 in the final. They won their second and last title in 1950 , upsetting host Brazil 2–1 in the final match . The team have qualified for fourteen World Cups, reaching the second round in ten, the semi-finals five times, and the final twice.
Soccer players at the 2023 Women’s World Cup will on average earn just 25 cents for every dollar earned by men at their World Cup last year, a new CNN analysis found.. Still, that is an ...
He went on to represent his country at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and made 12 appearances during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign. [4] On 2 June 2014, he was named in Uruguay's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals. [5] He appeared as a second-half substitute in the team's opening match – a 3–1 defeat to Costa Rica in ...
The team that beat Brazil in the decisive match of the 1950 FIFA World Cup to win Uruguay's second FIFA World Cup. In the 1940s, Uruguay achieved early success in a decade largely dominated by Argentina by winning their eighth South American championship in 1942. As the World Cup was not being played, this championship became the priority. In ...
Rodríguez is a former Uruguayan youth international. [2]On 21 October 2022, he was named in Uruguay's 55-man preliminary squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. [6] Later he made the 26-men cut to the World Cup squad, although he didn't make a single appearance in the competition.
Uruguay, population 3.4 million, has won more Copa América titles than Brazil and more World Cups than England. It is once again among men's international soccer's top 10 teams.
Rodríguez (bottom row, first left) lining up for Uruguay during the 2014 World Cup. Rodríguez made his Uruguay national team debut at age 18 in a friendly against Mexico, and represented the nation in two Copa América tournaments, scoring in the 2007 edition in a 4–1 quarter-final win over Venezuela, the hosts. [41]