Uruguay campeón mundial Sub 20 (SPA-ENG)

Uruguay Sub 20 world champion

We reached the end of the most important tournament at the level of youth soccer teams from around the world. Uruguay was crowned and prevailed against Italy by 1 to 0.

It was a laborious but very fair victory, the "charrúa" team dominated the actions from minute one and showed superior determination to win their first under-20 world title in their rich football history.

For either of the two teams, it would have been their first title, which is surprising since the history and tradition of good play and permanent entertainers of the international tournaments of both teams are highly recognized, Uruguay has been world champion twice and Italy in four. But in youth, none had been able to win the title until now.

Italy can only show a third place as the best performance while Uruguay twice before this one was in a final losing both.

The Diego Armando Maradona stadium was sold out, almost as if the Argentine team had played, of course, most of the supporters were Uruguayans, for them the trip is just a small process of a couple of hours by boat, 40 minutes by plane, and a few hours by one of the bridges that connect both countries, however, there were many Italian sympathizers too, it is probable that the majority were Argentine descendants, we cannot forget that before the Second World War, a large number of Italians settled in these land and formed families that today are distributed throughout the country, my case is an example of this.

Going back to the strict football aspect, Uruguay came out determined to get their first star in the category, and in that sense, they far surpassed Italy since the Azzurri team had no chance throughout the match, except in the last minutes when they understood that the title would be lost to them. escaped, the same determination and drive.

Although at all times Uruguay showed great concentration and territorial control and pressure in 3/4 pitch, they could not break the iron Italian defense and they did not have many dangerous situations either, however, they were able to overcome the Azzurri fence when they were so far away only 5 minutes to complete the statutory 90 and as often happens in recent times, there was suspense due to the VAR review, first due to an alleged forward position and then due to a hand from one of the Uruguayan forwards who intervened in the action. Everything was discarded after a few tense minutes that were reflected in the faces of the protagonists but also in the public present.

The match had an extension of almost 12 minutes, which added more drama to the expected finale, which nevertheless came to the joy of Uruguay and the disappointment of Italy.

Before finalizing a recognition for Israel that finished third thus completing a grand debut in this type of competition, which included a huge victory over one of the great favorites: Brazil. Congratulations to them too, a great tournament.

A good championship in general, with several surprises and no dominant team, which led to an ending open to all possibilities; There were no extremely outstanding figures either, but there were excellent players who are the immediate future in the world of soccer, for example, Rafael Bielsa, the brand new coach of the Uruguayan senior team, wasted no time and summoned 7 players from yesterday's crowned youth team.

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