Uruguay's national team head coach Oscar Washington Tabarez gestures during a news conference at the team's headquarters in the outskirts of Montevideo, April 23, 2014. REUTERS/Andres Stapff
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Copa America champions Uruguay are fifth in the FIFA rankings, finished fourth at the 2010 World Cup and in Luis Suarez have one of the world's deadliest strikers, but coach Oscar Washington Tabarez does not rate his side among the elite football nations.
"In football there is also a first world and a third world. We in Uruguay are not among the powers, not even in the South American region, and I think that's the reason we find the qualifiers so hard," Tabarez said on Wednesday.
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