Diego Forlán

Y en esta fecha FIFA están debutando grandes figuras del fútbol mundial con diferentes selecciones.

Empezando por, por Rafa Márquez, pero tenemos al Buñeko Gallardo en Ecuador, tenemos a, a Forlán con Uruguay, por ejemplo.

El mismo Jorge Jesús con Portugal.

Mancini con Italia.

Ecuador fue a jugar contra Corea del Sur en el debut de Marcelo Gallardo, perdió tres a cero.

Uruguay fue a jugar contra Japón, el debut de Diego Forlán, perdió tres a uno.

A ver, dos selecciones como Ecuador y Uruguay, que tienen jugadores en el primer nivel, los mejores equipos europeos, que es cierto, vienen de fracasar en las últimas Copas del Mundo, porque esperábamos mucho de Ecuador, el último mundial, se metió en los dieciseisavos de final.

Ya en el mundial del 2022 con Gustavo Alfaro no había pasado la ronda de grupos.

And And it doesn't really go to plan, certainly not Jersey Dudek's plan.

And a kind of cult hero really kind of comes to life, Davey, in Diego Forlan.

Yeah, absolutely.

Forlorn was such an interesting one because, you know, you mentioned last week, Martin, that people were sort of saying, well, why have they signed him? But I don't know.

It's sort of a list, isn't it? Cleberson, Bellion, Jemba Jemba.

And I'm not sure that's fair.

And in the case of Diego Forlan, I'm very sure that it isn't fair.

But I thought he was a good striker.

The rivalry between the clubs had been bubbling and boiling over, but it reached its flashpoint in this match when Ruud van Nistelrooy became the centre of attention.

he gets it clear but only as far as Phil Neville chip back in again up goes van Nistelrooy jumps on the back of Vieira oh and then Vieira kicks out and kicks van Nistelrooy and Patrick Vieira will now be sent off Patrick Vieira will get his marching orders there for kicking at van Nistelrooy when he was on the ground and now the Arsenal players have turned on Phil Neville and the referee is walking across as Roy Keane leads Patrick Vieira away and mayhem has broken out in the middle of the pitch Patrick Vieira sent off forward rude on the ball pulls it onto the right-hand side van Nistelrooy in goes Forlan it's a penalty to Manchester United for a push on Diego Forlan a penalty to Manchester United for a push on Diego Forlan And across comes Fortune to get the ball as Lehmann throws himself on the ground, and that is a penalty to Manchester United.

If ever there was a moment of controversy, this is it.

Jens Lehmann...

Our discipline is fantastic.

OK, stoppage time then.

The ball goes into the box and Diego Forlan goes down under Martin Keown's challenge.

Is it a definite penalty?

How they can still afford the wages and the transfer fees is very, very dodgy.

But anyway, I was just frantically Googling Arojo and I can't find any... word that he's been injured it was just a normal substitution it was a friendly friendly match so that's great um thank you to Diego Forlan who's the manager of Uruguay to uh for helping Liverpool um by substituting him uh not overworking him in a friendly uh but yeah Other news, Tyler Morton might be in for a return to Liverpool.

I mean, it's just a rumour.

But that'll be cool, have him back.

No fue buena.

Lo mismo para Diego Forlán, que debutó con la selección uruguaya, también en Asia, también con una negativa.

Y hoy debutan tanto Xavi Hernández como Jürgen Klopp, uno por Holanda, uno por Alemania.

Los dos juegan entre ellos.

Eh, me fui un poco de las ramas, pero hablando del fútbol sudamericano y todo, eh, es un poquito para extenderse a ratos.

En un ratito también va a venir Leo Vega.

Vamos a hablar de Uruguay, de la derrota tres a uno ante Japón, eh, del equipo de Diego Forlán, de Cachavacha, que no, no arrancó para nada bien.

Tuvo un equipo un poco más completo, nada que ver con el de Ecuador, que a lo mejor le faltan encontrar un poco más de pre-- de piezas, pero bueno.

There's a lot of other interesting storylines here, right? Rafa Marquez takes over Mexico.

Diego Forlan in Uruguay.

Marcelo Gachardo in Ecuador.

You've got some other South American teams running it back, right? Nyssa Lorenzo stays in Colombia.