This Thursday’s victory by 1-0 against Peru and the fall of Chile in view of Brazil (4-0) confirmed it: Uruguay qualified for Qatar World Cup 2022. And he did it with the presence of two footballers from Atletico Madrid, with Jose Maria Gimenez and with Luis Suarezboth headlines.
after a few months ago Uruguay was evicted in the tie, which meant the dismissal -in November 2021- of Oscar Washington Tabarez After nearly 16 years, the Light blue from diego alonso He garnered the last nine points he played and settled into fourth place from which no one will move him.
In this way, it was classified to the fourteenth world of its history and will play its fourth in a row, something it had already done in the editions between 1962 and 1974.
Giménez, celebrating the classification
Uruguay obtained this Thursday its classification to the Qatar World Cup 2022 after winning 1-0 to Peru and add 25 points, the same as Ecuadorin third place. Peru, Columbia and Chile They will play on the last date, next Tuesday, the playoff spot against a selection from the Asian group.
For his part, the player Atletico Madrid Jose Maria Gimenez declared to AUF.TV, after the meeting that served for the classification of the Light blue to the Qatar World Cup, that its members had a hard time during the qualifiers because they gave them “a lot of stick”.
“They gave us a lot of trouble, we endured, things happened, we kept going… And I think the work we’ve been doing since the beginning of the tie is a joy for all of us and leaves us very happy, above all, because of our environment, which They were always in bad times, screwed up,” he said.
The player of Atletico Madrid, who demanded “beware” of the press upon his arrival at Uruguayfeeling that at some point his physical condition was discussed without knowledge, he confessed that before the match he had spoken with, among others, his former teammate at the rojiblanco club Diego Godin about how “really bad” they had been in the selection.
“WE HAD A BAD TIME”
“We had a bad time, really bad,” he said about the past months, in which Uruguay He occupied positions far removed from the classification and was at risk of missing a World Cup for the first time since Germany 2006.
“This incredible group of people throughout the tie wanted to be on top, not get to this stage suffering, but we got there the way we got there,” he said.
Personally, he indicated that, unlike previous seasons, he is not suffering so much from “the muscular issue” and recognized that, when he has encountered these physical problems, one becomes “a psychopath of the situation” and is not calm.
“That’s where part of my problems go,” he said. Gimenezwho acknowledged feeling “good” tonight.
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