The Uruguayan delegation that will travel to Qatar –players, coaches and directors of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF)– comera uruguayan meat while you are in that country for the Soccer World Cup. Some 300 kilos of Uruguayan meat They were bought for this, within the framework of an agreement to promote national production, which the AUF and the National Meat Institute (INAC) signed this Tuesday.
Loin and wide steak They will be some of the cuts that will be included in the daily menu of the delegation.
The idea of promote Uruguayan meat in the World Cup It emerged a long time ago, to take advantage of the great showcase that this event means for the world and for national products. The president of INAC, Conrado Ferber, spoke with representatives of the AUF, and even, according to what he said, he received a call from Edinson Cavani so that the meat eaten in Qatar was their own feedlotlocated in Salto.
At Expo Prado 2022, the presidents of INAC and AUF, Ignacio Alonso, spoke about the issue, but finally the project was made official and presented this week, before the celestial delegation travels to the Middle East for the world championship.
Analia Pereira
The agreement was announced this Tuesday in the AUF.
Meat Raised Players
Players, coaches and directors of the AUF will be able to eat different types of meat from their daily menu “premium cuts”in what will be “a meat-based diet like the one Uruguayans and players are used to,” commented the INAC president.
Alonso defined the agreement between the two institutions as very important to “be able to spread the benefits of meat, the quality and nutritional properties that have distinguished us among 200-odd countries as a country of healthy people who have been raised for meat. And this is how the players that we train year after year are, who are children and young people who have meat as their nutritional base”, he highlighted.
During the signing of the agreement, Alonso stressed that Uruguayan meat “is already world champion”and that is why it is very important that the Uruguayan team travel accompanied by what they considered “a great partner in the World Cup.”
Analia Pereira
The cuts of meat that will be eaten at the World Cup in Qatar will be Premium.
?? The celestial delegation that will go to the Qatar 2022 World Cup will eat meat produced in the Uruguayan countryside.
“We are going to have a great partner in the World Cup, what is Uruguayan meat like,” said the president of the @AUFOficialIgnatius Alonso. pic.twitter.com/yDtP1hlMjG
– The Agro Observer (@ObservadorAgro) November 8, 2022
Analia Pereira
Ignacio Alonso and Conrado Ferber.
Meat, soccer and mate
“It seemed to us that it was a duty that meat be represented in Qatar. Meat, soccer and mate are part of our identity; That’s why we go together, as it has been in history. What Uruguayan soccer has won has been gained by eating meat, and we hope that once again success will be accompanied by Uruguayan meat,” said Ferber.
Currently, Uruguay has the sanitary authorization to export meat to Qatar, both beef and sheep, although it mainly sells beef. The market in which this meat is sold is the hotel and tourist market, he explained.
In this World Cup in Qatar 2022, the Uruguayan team will be the ambassador of several agricultural productions, since in addition to promoting the meat produced in the Uruguayan countryside, it will also spread the work of shepherds and woolerswith the suits that the celestial delegation will wearwhich were made with national fine Merino wool.
Analia Pereira
In addition to meat, the AUF will also promote Uruguayan wool in Qatar.
