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Saturday, 30 June 2018

Uruguay and Portugal cross swords in fascinating reboot of el clásico

Luis Suárez and Cristiano Ronaldo will be on opposite sides in what promises to be a spectacular encounter in Sochi

Go on, admit it: one of the first things you thought of when the draw put Portugal and Uruguay together was the kind of thing nobody wants to see but everybody wants to see really. OK, maybe not everybody, and maybe you didn’t. Plenty, though, did. Just try typing Portugal, Uruguay and “shithousery” into Google.

On Friday though, Uruguay’s manager, Óscar Tabárez preferred to recall a different story and a whole different set of values, going back to the 1954 World Cup to tell a parable and question the “myths”, as he put it. Alongside, Luis Suárez sat captivated, silently gazing at him.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Nc0GQT

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