BRAZIL: FOOTBALL/SOCCER: WORLD CUP 2014: Suarez leads Uruguay team in training after shock defeat by Costa Rica

Record ID: 351647

  • Title: BRAZIL: FOOTBALL/SOCCER: WORLD CUP 2014: Suarez leads Uruguay team in training after shock defeat by Costa Rica
  • Date: 15th June 2014
  • Summary: SETE LAGOAS, BRAZIL (JUNE 15, 2014) (REUTERS) URUGUAY STRIKER LUIS SUAREZ (CENTRE) TRAINING WITH TEAM MATES URUGUAY COACH OSCAR TABAREZ WATCHING SUAREZ AT TRAINING SESSION, SUAREZ DOING RUNNING DRILL WITH TEAM MATES GOALKEEPER MARTIN SILVA TRAINING AND GOALKEEPER RODRIGO MUNOZ STRETCHING DEFENDER JOSE GIMENEZ DOUSING WATER ON HIS HEAD SUAREZ AND FORWARD ABEL HERNANDEZ DRIN
  • Embargoed: 30th June 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Brazil
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8ZJ5GUKL3TATTJ45QBNTZSQ0L
  • Story Text: Uruguay's Luis Suarez led his team mates in training under the midday sun on Sunday (June 15) after their shock defeat by Costa Rica the night before.
    Under the close watch of coach Oscar Tabarez, the team was back at Arena do Jacare in Sete Lagoas, outside the World Cup city host Belo Horizonte.
    Costa Rica pulled off the biggest upset of the World Cup so far, scoring three second-half goals to come from behind and beat former champions Uruguay 3-1 in their opening Group D match on Saturday (June 14).
    The result left Uruguay's World Cup ambitions in disarray in this, one of the toughest groups in the tournament.
    They face England in Sao Paulo next while the jubilant Costa Ricans, who have only once made it out of the group stages at a World Cup, travel to Recife to take on Italy.
    The Italians will not take that match lightly. Costa Rica were every bit as good as Uruguay in the heat of Fortaleza's Castelao arena and thoroughly deserved to win.
    To compound Uruguay's misery, defender Maxi Pereira became the first man to be sent off at this World Cup when he was shown a straight red for upending Campbell with a nasty kick to the shin in stoppage time.
    The Uruguayans controlled much of the play and went ahead through Cavani's penalty after Diego Lugano went down in the box under pressure from Costa Rica defender Junior Diaz.
    With his side trailing 2-1, Tabarez sent Suarez out of the dug-out to warm up, although in the end he chose not to throw him on as a substitute.
    If the South Americans are to progress in Brazil, they may need Suarez to recover fully from his recent knee operation before their two tough remaining group matches.
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