Just like the fans of the other 31 teams preparing for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™, Uruguay supporters have been assessing their heroes’ chances of success ever since the Final Draw was made in Cape Town last December.

Pitched into the same section as the tournament hosts, France and Mexico, the current Charrúa crop are intent on emulating the finest achievements of their illustrious predecessors, as their coach Oscar El Maestro Tabarez explains.

“We have a duty to our country’s great footballing history,” he tells FIFA.com. “Some people call it prehistory but they’re only saying that because they don’t have any history of their own to talk about. We need to have some kind of link with those great champions, at least in terms of our footballing culture and what it means to us.”

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