| The Uruguay striker collected a ball on the edge of the penalty area, span past his marker and planted the ball into the bottom corner. |
| Venezuela was reduced to ten players for the second period of extra time and the pressure shifted to Uruguay. |
| Uruguay floated its currency late last month following a run on banks and a plunge in foreign reserves. |
| The Falklands were colonised by house sparrows travelling aboard a fleet of whalers from Uruguay. |
| Uruguay was created in an underpopulated borderland between Brazil and Argentina. |
| The remains of the Tupamaro guerrilla movement in Uruguay have joined a bourgeois electoral front, the Frente Amplio. |
