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The face was painted blue, white and yellow. They imagined that they had the sun next to their eyes, which made them scream louder and move closer to Russia. They grabbed hats, scarves and big flags. They wrapped themselves in them. They sat down with them in front of the television and they clung to them. They tightened when the game was complicated and lifted them to the sky in every goal and in every ball that Fernando Muslera saved. They screamed together, shouted loudly, shouted softly. Some have done it at home, others at school, others in recreation rooms, others in bed. But everyone celebrated. They, like us and like all Uruguayans, in every game of the national team have forgotten a bit of the world, ugly things, sad things, that something hurts. They, who are having tough games. They, who know what it is to fight, to grit their teeth and bear it. They lived their first World Cup but they are bigger than everyone else. They are a strong and courageous team, and champions. They, the children of the Foundation Pérez Scremini are fans of Luis Suárez, Edinson Cavani, Lucas Torreira and Diego Laxalt, Fernando Muslera, Diego Godin, José María Giménez, maestro Tabarez, but especially they are fans of Uruguay Sing loud or whisper and heavenly give me a sun . Because the real champions of the world and of all life are Uruguayans. It was thus that they lived the World Cup Russia
Dream together
It was the first match of Uruguay at the World Cup and the national team was not playing well. There were 88 minutes and, among all the possible finals, there was one that was the least likely: that Uruguay would win with a goal from one of its defenses. But as this selection does not know impossible, Carlos Sanchez raised a center and Josema Giménez jumped higher than anything. Purpose of Uruguay.
It was Celeste's match that Diana loved most, she's nine and it's the first World Cup she's living or, at least, that she's remembers. "I'm not very nervous but in this case yes because we scored the goal in the end," he said. Diana could not watch all the matches of Uruguay; for some, he watched them at school, at others at the foundation; the face was painted blue, white and yellow. There, Diana did not shout goals very loudly, but she saw them wrapped in a very big Uruguayan flag.
The recreation room of the foundation is full of color. Tables, chairs, toys, everything is colorful. In one of the windows, there are also drawings, letters and posters. For these days and for a month, although the World Cup ends, although the Uruguayan team was eliminated in the quarter, all the drawings are light blue, with suns, with blue and white lines. "Sky of one color", "Uruguay can go", "heavenly hello give me a sun", "Franco I am heavenly". The posters and drawings are glued one above the other, side by side, and cover all the glbad. Meanwhile, Thiago (6), who has a Uruguayan headscarf while Uruguay has already returned from Russia, says that he has a photo with Luis Suarez, one of them. of his idols. Brisa (11 years old) also has a photo with the 9 Uruguayans who, with his wife Sofía Balbi, are the godfathers of Pérez Scremini and visit children when they can. Brisa goes to the foundation from time to time to take exams, so she looks at the matches at her father's or mother's house in Pando. In addition to Suárez, he says his favorite players are Edinson Cavani and Diego Laxalt
It was June 25 and the Uruguayan team was already qualified for the round of 16 when they still had to play their third match against Russia, the local, the strongest of the group. It was the first game in which Lucas Torreira and Diego Laxalt entered as starters, in a team that had everything to shine but did not finish meeting. At 9 minutes and a short time, Luis Suarez scored a free kick goal. At 22, Laxalt hit from outside the box, on the way the ball found a Russian and his destination was the goal. At the end of the second period, Cavani, who wanted his goal, found the rebound of Diego Godin's head and pushed it into the Russian goal .
Mariano (3) is from Fray Bentos de Torreira. Like Lucas, he is small but like him, when he shouted the goals of Uruguay in his father's house, in the middle of a farm and with the Uruguayan flag on his shoulder, he was taller Everyone. He and his mother want to be at Fray Bentos when Lucas, who went straight to England to sign a contract with Arsenal, returns to Uruguay.
Dayana is not from Fray Bentos. She is 16 years old and comes from Montevideo. She says that before loving to play football rather than watching it, she did it with her brother and friends, that it was the first World Cup where a flag was hung up and she was nervous. She is also a fan of Torreira and Laxalt and the reason is simple: "They mark everything, and Laxalt is cute with the braids that he wears." Dayana has long hands and nails. In addition, all nails are painted red except for two inches. In those has the flag of Uruguay painted; she painted them herself for the match against Portugal and she still has them intact.
Saturday, June 30th. Uruguay played against Portugal in the eighth round of the World Cup. It was all or nothing. It was to defend himself against a giant who could hurt us in any chance he had. It was enjoy a possibility of purpose and hang on to it with all the strength and all the heart. At seven minutes Cavani and Suarez got together to do what only they know: a change of Edi front for Luis and a pbad from Luis to Edi's head. Goal. At age 55 Pepe will bind us, but twenty minutes later, Cavani will once again appear and we all know what happened. Not only by goals, but by delivery and sacrifice, Edinson Cavani was the figure and hero of the match.
Facundo (8) and Edinson are from Salto. Both love football and they were born in the same neighborhood. It is now five months since Facundo was in Montevideo and although Edinson lives in France, he says that he would like to meet him in Salto, to meet him in his neighborhood when the player visits.
-Cavani is your idol, Facu?
Yes.
-What other player do you like?
-Solo Cavani. I am just from Uruguay because I am from Salto like him.
That's why for Facundo, Uruguay's best game was against Portugal. For the purposes, because although he quietly shouts them, his voice came to Russia because Cavani had them and because Cavani was born in the same place as him, maybe one day he will be able to meet him and tell him that the day of this happy match, he has a selection card game with lots of pictures of him, who has a giant poster that he will put in his room when he can return to Salto. Like him, he has more strength than anything and like him, he fights all the games he has to face.
Two godfathers who always bring joy
Luis Suárez and Sofia Balbi are the sponsors of the Pérez Scremini Foundation, headed by Dr. Ney Castillo. Whenever the player and his wife are in Uruguay, they take the opportunity to visit the children, take pictures and give them strength. In fact, before the World Cup, Suarez asked to leave the concentration of Uruguay and go see them. "I asked to leave but it's for a particular reason, try to encourage the children, I'm excited to come see them because I'm also father and I put myself in the situation of these parents and these children ". from the foundation, while the children surrounded him for his idol to sign them an autograph, a flag, a T-shirt or even the school's tunic. "They are delighted to see me, I had to live in cases where getting a smile from them and encouraging them helped them to go forward.
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