Tokyo (AFP)
Uruguay's "Teros" are heading to Japan for their fourth World Cup with the modest goal of winning a match in Pool D, clearly targeting Georgia for that.
"We know that there is a big gap but we are getting ready to do the best, the idea is to win a match," and therefore to do as well as in 1999 and 2003, told the AFP scrum half Agustin Ormaechea, son of Diego, first scorer of Uruguay at the World Cup. For the Federation (URU), it is even more precise: "The goal is Georgia".
The Teros, 19th world nation, are a team in progress. Exit the game based on a solid pack: "The world will see another style of team.We will try to play more, have fun and play three quarters," promises Ormaechea, who evolves in Mont- de-Marsan.
But always with this 'garra charrua', this typical Uruguayan concept that combines solidarity, fight and aggressiveness.
"We're going to play all the way, we're fighting and we're going to give everything, we're going to try to show a little more than just tackling, we're more mobile than before, we've got a more complete game," he says. side opener Felipe Berchesi.
With 10.000 licensed on a little more than 3 million inhabitants, Uruguay does not have a vast reservoir of players.
Neither of an opposition worthy of the name: apart from their appearances at the World Cup, the Uruguayans have never played against a team of the elite. And at the last World Cup, where they faced Australia, Wales, Fiji (three teams they will meet in Japan) and England, the "Teros" returned empty-handed, with four losses and an average of 56 points cashed.
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