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About Uruguay
Uruguay's national football team (also known as Charruas, La Celeste Olimpica or simply La Celeste) represents Uruguay in association football competitions vs. foreign national football teams. The national football team holds its home matches at the Estadio Centenario stadium in Parque Batlle, Montevideo. The Estadio Centenario stadium has a capacity of 66,106 spectators and it is listed by FIFA as one of the football world's classic stadiums.
Uruguay's national football team has won the FIFA World Cup twice. The team won the first ever World Cup in 1930 as hosts and won it again in 1950 in Brazil. Uruguay's national football team has also won the Mundialito, a tournament among former World Cup champions that was held in Uruguay in 1980 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first World Cup. Uruguay's national football team has also won more than 13 Copa America tournaments. Uruguay is the smallest country in the world to have won a FIFA World Cup.
Despite the team's failure to achieve greater success, Uruguay's national football team has always remained a strong team in South America and reached third and fourth place finish in recent Copa America tournaments as well as finishing fourth in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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