Preview: Ecuador versus Uruguay

It's because of the mess that Argentina is in that more attention is not being paid to Uruguay. Talk to people who follow the team or live down there and you hear tales of malaise and depression. Beyond having low expectations for the national team, people are losing interest. Only 30,000 people showed up for the Round 16 win over Colombia: twenty thousand less than came to see the Brazil match in Round 14, forty thousand less than capacity.

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