Tabarez to coach Uruguay until 2014
Reuters - Friday 10 September 2010, 22:43
MONTEVIDEO - Oscar Washington Tabarez,
who steered Uruguay to fourth place at the World Cup in July,
will carry on as his country's coach until the 2014 finals in
neighbouring Brazil.
Tabarez, who also coached Uruguay at the 1990 World Cup in
Italy, signed a new four-year contract at Uruguayan Football
Association (AUF) headquarters on Friday.
"This (contract) gives us the possibility of continuing the
job we want to be involved in. It's also a life choice, we
wanted to be in our country because we wanted our challenges
here," Tabarez said on behalf of his coaching staff.
"We have a clear plan and lots of faith," he told a packed
news conference.
The AUF had been negotiating terms with Tabarez since July
when Uruguay returned from South Africa where they reached the
World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1970.
Players including forward Diego Forlan, voted best player at
the finals, urged the AUF to keep Tabarez in the job after he
revolutionised the national team set-up during the four years he
was in charge.
Tabarez will now begin to prepare his team for the Copa
America in Argentina next July. The South American qualifiers
for the 2014 World Cup begin later next year.
Brazil is the scene of Uruguay's greatest achievement when
they upset the host nation 2-1 to win their second World Cup in
1950. They won their first title at home in the inaugural finals
in 1930 when they beat Argentina 4-2.
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