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Playing in rain and wind, Luis Suarez scored the winning goal versus South Korea at the 80 minute mark to propel little Uruguay into the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time since 1970.
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NYT: "History is a source of pride for Uruguay’s soccer players, but it is also a burden. They are rather like modern-day Athenians and Romans: working, striving, dreaming but well aware that matching the luminous achievements of their ancestors is probably too much to ask. How to trump winning the first World Cup, on home soil, as the Uruguayans did in 1930? How to top winning it a second time — in Brazil — in 1950, even if it was a Cup with just 13 teams and an odd round-robin format?"
