Alcides Ghiggia still remembers the shocked hush in the Maracana stadium, packed with more than 200,000 people, after he scored the goal that felled football's superpower.... more »
Liverpool and Uruguay striker Luis Suarez is pigheaded but used that trait to overcome an error-ridden start to his career and become the great striker he is today, claimed national coach Oscar Tabarez on Sunday.... more »
Uruguay will play at the World Cup despite its crisis-hit national football federation having been kicked out of the South American confederation (Conmebol), FIFA president Sepp Blatter insisted on Thursday.... more »
World football's governing body FIFA has been fined over ticketing problems which arose at a Confederations Cup match in Brazil last June, media and consumer organizations said Thursday.... more »