Quote Originally Posted by Phenomanul
Keep deluding yourself that all things Uruguayan must be better... typical arrogance (of course, you're going to deny the prevalence of such at udes in your arguments - frankly I'm tired of it)...

Cardozo's Paraguayan team owned Uruguay during the last decade... Something which would be pretty difficult to accomplish if he was only a "B-Level" talent having to play against Uruguayan squads "full of A-Level" talents...

Didn't Paraguay almost leave Uruguay out of the 2002 WC? In fact, Cardozo was the CONMEBOL footballer of the year that year... Then in a WC qualifying game for the 2006 WC he scored a hat-trick against your supposedly "superior" Uruguayan team (final score 4 - 1)... actually leaving Uruguay out of the 2006 edition of the tournament... I would add the failed qualification in 1998... where Cardozo's Paraguay qualified over Uruguay as well... Don't let those little facts get in the way of your bias... Or could it be that your premise is too simple-minded (i.e. players must play for one of the European Big Leagues to be considered A-Level Talents)?

Cardozo is Paraguay's all-time leading scorer for his National Team... by his own admission and like I've been trying to tell you, he refused on many occasions to go to La Liga in Spain because he would rather not deal with racial issues, and Spanish arrogance.... As for the other Euro leagues, he mentions that he didn't want to deal with language issues... so he stayed on this side of the Atlantic... Watch "La Hazaña: José Saturnino Cardozo"...

Cardozo led Paraguay to a 2nd place finish at the Athens Olympics... and is one of the more accomplished South American players of the last decade...

But of course, in your mind, he's not in the same league as your beloved players...

José Saturnino Cardozo = Diego Forlan >>> Salvador Cabañas = Luis Suarez...

Don't get me wrong, I believe Suarez is an amazing, talented football player... What I don't buy is your incessant attempt to belittle other footballers for the sake of agrandizing your fellow countrymen... as well as your "catch all/end all" premise that players cannot be considered A-Level talents if they don't play in the European big Leagues.... can you say HOMER?

Then there's the matter of Sebastian Abreu... how can you belittle your own player just for the sake of 'prevailing' in this stupid argument??? If you literally consider Forlan a footballing god, and if Abreu scored 30 goals in 59 NT appearances vs. Forlan's 28 goals in 68 appearances... wouldn't that make Abreu equally important to the success of the NT? MORE goals in less matches... and one highly important goal that allowed the Uruguayan team to classify to South Africa 2010 in the first place... yet by your own admission, he's a B-Level talent because he never made the jump to European Big Leagues... that's a stupid argument.

Oh BTW, in 18 matches against Mexico's National Team Uruguay has won 4 times, drawn 7, and lost 7 matches... with a goal differential of -4.... I'm pretty sure the majority of those matches were played well before the recent influx of Mexican players into Europe... so again, your premise is rather faulty... especially since you gloated about the fact that your country has been exporting players to Europe for over 80 years.... and furthermore, that this was the ultimate measure of your your player's alleged superiority...
so how old was Suarez when Cardozo was on his prime to make a fair comparison? what did he accomplish at Suarez's age?
so how many championships did Cardozo win with Paraguay?
son how many cups those Mexican victories over Uruguay led to winning a championship?
You can argue whatever you want and keep reading to learn more about futbol... you'll only find more reasons to admire Uruguay's accomplishments more and more...
You're stubbornness is starting to make me a fan