The Uruguay national football team represents Uruguay in international association football and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The current head coach is Óscar Tabárez. The Uruguayan team is commonly referred to as La Celeste . They have won the Copa América 15 times, the most successful national team in the tournament, the most recent title being the 2011 edition. The team has won the FIFA World Cup twice, including the first World Cup in 1930 as hosts, defeating Argentina 4–2 in the final. They won their second title in 1950, upsetting host Brazil 2–1 in the final match, which received an attendance higher than any football match ever.
The Uruguay national rugby union team, nicknamed Los Teros, is governed by the Unión de Rugby del Uruguay. One of the older test sides in the world, Uruguay has qualified three times for the Rugby World Cup, in 1999, 2003 and most recently 2015. As of March 2018 they are ranked 18th in the world, and are ranked 3rd in the Americas region, behind rivals Argentina and the United States.
Norma Gladys Cappagli was an Argentine model and beauty queen who won the 1960 Miss World contest, after being crowned Miss Argentina World 1960. She was the first model from Argentina to win the title. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom. Her prize was £500 and a sports car. After her reign as Miss World ended, Cappagli worked as a model. In 1962, she recorded the song "Sexy World" with Armando Sciascia. The song is featured in the T.V. show Velvet.
The Nations Cup is a rugby union competition that was first held in 2006 at Estádio Universitário in Lisbon with Argentina A, Italy A, Portugal and Russia taking part. The tournament is part of the International Rugby Board's US $50 million Strategic Investment programme, which also includes the Pacific Nations Cup, the Pacific Rugby Cup and the Americas Rugby Championship.
The Miss South Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The pageant was first held in Myrtle Beach and moved to Greenville starting in 1958 and remained in that city until the 1990s. Spartanburg hosted the pageant in a few different venues until new leadership took over the organization and moved the pageant to Columbia, SC in 2011. The pageant was televised since the 1960s until the 1998 pageant. Televising was resumed with the 2000 pageant through 2006. The pageant returned to television in 2014.
Miss Universe 1959, the 8th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 24 July 1959 in Long Beach, California, United States. 34 contestants competed and in the end Akiko Kojima of Japan won the competition, becoming the first Asian woman to win the title. She was crowned by Luz Marina Zuluaga from Colombia. This was the last year that the pageant was held in Long Beach before it moved to Miami Beach, Florida in 1960, before the establishment of the Miss International pageant.
Néstor Fernando Muslera Micol is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Turkish club Galatasaray and the Uruguay national team.
Gustavo Cristian Matosas Paidón is an Argentine-born Uruguayan former professional footballer and manager.
Football is the most popular sport in Uruguay. The Uruguay national football team has won two FIFA World Cup titles in addition to a record 15 Copa América titles, making them one of the most successful teams in South America. The national team won the first edition of the tournament in 1930, and won it again in 1950.
Miss Uruguay is a national beauty pageant in Uruguay.
Miss World 1962, the 12th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 8 November 1962 at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, United Kingdom. The winner was Catharina Lodders of Holland. She was crowned by Miss World 1961, Rosemarie Frankland of United Kingdom. Lodders was the second woman from Holland to win Miss World title after Corine Rottschäfer in 1959.
The Americas Rugby Championship, often informally called the Americas' Six Nations, is an annual international rugby tournament between six North and South American nations: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the United States and Uruguay. The current international tournament is the second format of the competition to bear the name.
Miss Asia Pacific World is a yearly beauty pageant. There have been a number of controversies with the pageant.The 2014 Miss Asia Pacific World, May Myat Noe from Burma, was crowned on 31 May 2014 but was dethroned after three months. Same year organisation made a new final few months after May Myat Noe been dethroned. The title won Swetha Raj from India.
Camila Vezzoso is a model from Uruguay and a beauty queen titleholder who was crowned Miss Uruguay 2012. She also represented Uruguay in the 2012 Miss Universe pageant. Following the contests, she moved to Paris and is currently pursuing a modeling career.
Miss Panamá 2013 the 47th Annual Miss Panamá pageant was held at the Atlapa Convention Centre, Panama City, Panama, on Tuesday, 30 April 2013.
Miss Panamá 2014 is the 48th Annual edition of the Miss Panamá pageant was select representatives from Panama to Miss World, Miss Universe & Miss Intercontinental pageant. The pageant has been split into two contests this year Miss Panamá Mundo and Miss Panamá Universo. This is the four edition of the pageant under the management of Marisela Moreno former Miss World Panama, the OMP and broadcast live on Telemetro. About 16 contestants from all over Panamá will compete for the prestigious crown. Miss Panamá 2013, Carolina Brid of Veraguas crowned to Yomatzy Maurineth Hazlewood De La Rosa of Darién at the end of the event as the new Miss Panamá Universe, also Sara Bello Miss Intercontinental Panamá 2013 of Los Santos crowned to Stephanie Gonzáles of Los Santos as the new Miss Intercontinental Panamá.
The World Rugby Tbilisi Cup is a rugby union competition that was first held in 2013 at Avchala Stadium in Tbilisi with the hosts Georgia joined by Uruguay, who regularly take part in the Nations Cup, and two newly founded teams: Emerging Ireland, who were made up of young Irish players that didn't get selected for the Lions tour to Australia or the national side's tour to North America, and a South Africa President's XV, composed of Currie Cup players.
Reinado Internacional del Café 2015, will held in Manizales, Colombia, on January 10, 2015. At the end of the event, the outgoing queen Priscilla Durand Reina Internacional del Café 2014 from Brazil crowned Yuri Uchida of Japan as his successor.
Katherine Lee Graham, known professionally as K. Lee Graham, is an American model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2014.
Valerie Hernández Matías is a Puerto Rican model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss International 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. She is the second winner from Puerto Rico after Laurie Simpson in 1987.
