Diego Forlán Corazo is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward. A prolific goal scorer, he is regarded as one of the greatest Uruguayan players of all time. At club level, Forlán is a two-time winner of both the Pichichi Trophy and the European Golden Shoe. With Uruguay, he had huge individual success at the 2010 World Cup receiving the Golden Ball, the joint Top Scorer award, the Goal of the Tournament award and being named in the Dream Team.
Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and regarded by many as the greatest player of all time, Messi has won a record-tying five Ballon d'Or awards, four of which he won consecutively, and a record five European Golden Shoes. He has spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he has won a club-record 32 trophies, including nine La Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League titles and six Copas del Rey. Both a prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals in La Liga and in Europe's top-five leagues (416), a La Liga season and club league season in Europe (50), a club football season in Europe (73), most official goals in a calendar year (96), El Clásico (26), most hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League (8), as well as those for most assists in La Liga (166) and the Copa América (11). He has scored over 685 senior career goals for club and country.
Eric Sylvain Abidal is a French former professional footballer who played as a left back or a central defender, and is the director of football of FC Barcelona.
Luis Alberto Cubilla Almeida was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He had a successful playing career winning 16 major titles. He then went on to become one of the most successful managers in South American football with 17 major titles.
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1945 throughout the world.
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1929 throughout the world.
Gerardo Daniel "Tata" Martino is an Argentine former footballer and manager of Mexico.
Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish club Barcelona and the Uruguay national team. Often regarded as one of the best players in the world, Suárez has won 17 trophies in his career, including five league titles and a UEFA Champions League title at club level, and a Copa América with Uruguay. A prolific goalscorer, Suárez has won two European Golden Shoes, an Eredivisie Golden Boot, a Premier League Golden Boot, as well as ending the six-year dominance of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo by winning La Liga's Pichichi Trophy in 2016. He has scored over 400 senior career goals for club and country.
Enrique Fernández Viola, commonly referred to as Enrique Fernández, was a Uruguayan football player and manager who played for Nacional, Talleres (RE), Independiente, FC Barcelona, Uruguay and the Catalan XI. As a manager, he won two Uruguayan championships with Nacional and La Liga titles with both FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. Along with Radomir Antic, he is one of only two coaches to have taken charge of both FC Barcelona and Real Madrid and he is the only coach to have won La Liga titles with both. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Diego Roberto Godín Leal is a Uruguayan professional footballer who captains both Spanish club Atlético Madrid and the Uruguay national team as a central defender.
José Martín Cáceres Silva is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Italian club Juventus on loan from Lazio. Mainly a central defender, he can also play on either flank, mostly as a right-back.
Gonzalo "Chory" Castro Irizábal is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Club Nacional de Football as a left winger.
José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior, commonly known as Paulinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande and the Brazil national team.
The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona was a military uprising in Barcelona, the capital and greatest city of Catalonia, Spain on 19 July 1936 which contributed to the start of the Spanish Civil War. Most of the army officers in the city supported the coup, but the Civil Guard, the Assault Guard and the Mossos d'Esquadra remained loyal to the government. Furthermore, Barcelona was one of the strongholds of the anarchist union, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). The rebel troops were defeated after bloody combat.
Samuel Yves Umtiti is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Spanish club Barcelona and the French national team. He is considered the world's most expensive centre-back from a transfer value perspective by the CIES.
The 2013 season is the 91st season of competitive football in Ecuador.
Jonathan Daniel Álvez Sagar is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Internacional, on loan from Atlético Junior.
Uruguay competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain.
