Uruguay’s Tabarez praises South Korean football
28.06.10 | Andrew Slevison

Uruguay boss Oscar Tabarez has heaped praise on the South Korean football team following the two nations’ clash in the World Cup Round of 16.

The South American team came out on top 2-1 in wet conditions to eliminate the Asians from the tournament but Tabarez thought the performance of Huh Jung-Moo’s men was outstanding.

"The Korean team performed superbly. They had no goddess of luck beside it this time. On the other hand, we were very lucky. This is football. This is suitable to the World Cup," Tabarez said. "Korean players have progressed much. Korea is the top team in Asia.”

Defender Diego Godin echoed Tabarez’s sentiments, saying Korea were a tough team to come up against.

“Korea did well. We were too defensive. We failed to dominate in the middle of the field," he added.

Uruguay will now meet Ghana in the World Cup quarter-finals on Friday.


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Funny how most Asian teams still dont consider us as Asian......

As for 'big name players' they are all too old. The big expectations are on Martin Jørgensen 34 and Jon Dahl Tomasson 33. The other 'supporting crew' is Dennis Rommedahl 31, Jesper Grønkjær 32, Christian Poulsen 30, Per Krøldrup 30. All of these guys underperformed (other than Rommedahl), and showed much the same problems of Australia...too slow, ineffective and cannot put the ball into the back of the net. The younger players are expected to be the new generation, and will be judged in he future...it is expected the leaders lead the way for now, and they will take them to Brazil 2014