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THREAD: Oscar Washington Tabarez. And me.

One of my running themes on here is how profoundly contradictory Uruguay truly is. Here's another example. Oscar Tabarez is the biggest single reason I live here. Yes, really!

Yet I've also been desperate for him to go for 9 years now.
The reason I live in Uruguay is because I fell in love with their national team at Wembley in May 1990.

A game I went to anticipating 1986-style thuggery; yet watched utterly enthralled by the sheer gentleness of Uruguay's play. It was like football from another age.
I wasn't even 12 yet, but was already obsessed with football and unusually observant and analytical. I felt like I was watching a team from the 1950s; it was unique, different. Special.

And the reason for their play was, 100%, Tabarez. Back then, an aesthete. An idealist.
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