MY TEAM: URUGUAY PRIMERA: NACIONAL DE MONTEVIDEO

[jenni_blog]

Because this league may not be as familiar to people as some as the others, I thought I'd post a little more information about Nacional as well as a picspam of the players and some of the recent matches.

This is the crest and the current kit (home and away).





Another version of the crest and a bit of the stadium.



It's called the Estadio Gran Parque Central and is located in Montevideo.





Nacional just defeated Rampla Jrs. and now sits in third place in the league. Some pics from the match:










The Coach

Marcelo Gallardo, former player









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THE PLAYERS

Goalkeeper Rodrigo Munoz



Goalkeeper Leonardo Burian



Goalkeeper Martin Tejera



Defenders

Jadson Viera



Cristian Nunez



Diego Placente



Gonzalo Godoy



Mathias Abero



Gabriel Marques



Midfielders

Matias Cabrera



Maximiliano Calzada



Facundo Piriz



Raul Poclaba



Forwards

Joaquin Boghossian



Alexander Medina ("Cacique")



Tabare Viudez



Horacio Peralta



Matias Vecino



Gonzalo Bueno



Matias Sosa



Alvaro Recoba



Jonathan Charquero



Sergio Cortelezzi



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Notable Former Players

(This list is quite impressive)

Alvaro Fernandez ("El Flaco") - now with Seattle Sounders



Bruno Fornaroli (now with Recreativo Huelva), but back with Nacional on loan!



Diego Godin (now with Atletico Madrid)



Diego Lugano (now with Paris St. Germain)



Fernando Muslera (now with Galatasaray)



Gustavo Munua (now with Levante UD)



Sebastian ("El Loco") Abreu (now with Botafogo)



Luis Suarez (now with Liverpool FC)



Mauricio Victorino (now with Cruzeiro)



Nicolas Lodeiro (now with Ajax)



Sebastian Coates (now with Liverpool FC)



Sebastian Viera (now with Atletico Junior)



Vicente Sanchez (now with Club America)

Comments

[aglaiya.livejournal.com]

That was an very interesting post!!!

CONGRATS! Many infos! Many pics! Some players to love!!! Some players I know very well!

I have seen their match vs Rampla!!! They should have more pics on their site!!!

Gonzalo Bueno is so cute and a good player and I hope he has a bright future because it's fun to watch him on the pitch!

Thanks!

[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's very nice. I am really very interested in this team. It seems to produce a lot of really good players so the quality of their play is good. Although I guess that could be said of Uruguay as a whole.

It's hard to find pics. I have to visit several sites in order to get just a few. The official site has GREAT pics, which at one time I could copy, but not any more. :(

There are several young 'juvenils' on the team...little cuties! XD Sergio Cortalezzi is my favourite of the young boys! :)

You're welcome. Now on to the Colombian picspam! It might take me a few days because I want to make it special too.♥

[aglaiya.livejournal.com]

It's no problem to get the pics from the official site (you have to go another way)

Mostly the Uruguayan streams have no good quality :( and they are playing at the same time as the Argentine teams. I have my priorities ;)

Uruguay is 'producing' very good players *smiles*

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[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

You mean the screencap way? Yes, I could do that. ;)

It's too bad about the Uruguayan stream quality being so bad! It is an interesting league with good teams and players, IMO. And the success of the NT should make more people interested in seeing the league! They should improve on everything from there...pics, streams...*sigh*

LOL @ 'El Rayo'! XD

[aglaiya.livejournal.com]

Another way: firefox way - if you want to know call me on MSN

The Uruguayan teams have some cuties....

I guess in South America Uruguay has more fans. In Europe the 'fans' are mostly too stupid to see how beautiful the football there is.

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[zimena]

I was waiting for you to make this post ever since you started posting about all of your teams. Then, when you finally put it up I was almost "afraid" of clicking it... or, not afraid, but I guess I should be more focused on another team just this week :D

But, back to your fabulous picspam - first, yay, Marcelo! And I have to admit your team has some cuties. From these pics I especially like Calzada and Poclaba... of course in addition to the ones you already know I like :D

I don't like Vecino, though - no good reason, as I don't even remember seeing him on the pitch. However, he was on the verge of signing for Peñarol during the summer, and at one point the transfer seemed to be done - at least a bunch of sources reported it as a done deal. Then, at the last minute (and I mean minutes before the end of the Uruguayan transfer window), he suddenly signed for Nacional. That makes me feel like we lost him to you or some such, and so I don't like him very much :D

And.... ahem, this IS an impressive list of former players. And you know there are at least two I love among those as well.