FILE PHOTO: Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez before last 16 match against Portugal - Fisht Stadium, Sochi, Russia - June 30, 2018 REUTERS/Hannah Mckay/File Photo
(Reuters) - Oscar Tabarez began his second stint as Uruguay coach in May 2006, one month before the World Cup. But they were not going to Germany -- in fact, they struggled even to find anyone who would play them in friendlies.
"We were hardly competing internationally," he said in one interview. "We had to travel to the most distant parts of the world just to have matches."
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