Penarol won their first Uruguayan championship after seven years, despite being held to a 1-1 draw by arch-rivals Nacional in the second leg of the final at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo on Tuesday. Penarol’s 1-0 win over Nacional on Saturday gave them a superior 2-1 aggregate triumph in the two-legged finals series. A 68th-minute [...]
Penarol defeated Nacional 1-0 in the first of two finals to decide the Uruguayan national championship at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo on Saturday. Penarol edged Nacional with a first-half goal from Antonio Pacheco and are only a draw away from winning the title when the sides meet in the return leg on Tuesday. In [...]
Nacional defeated arch-rivals Penarol 2-0 in the final of the Uruguayan championship in front of over 60,000 fans at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo on Wednesday night. The result allowed Nacional to enter a two-legged play-off with Penarol to determine the champions of the Uruguayan first division for the 2009-10 season. Los Tricolores won the [...]
South American heavyweights Nacional and Penarol — Uruguay’s two most successful clubs — will meet in the latest edition of the Uruguayan “clasico” to decide the league title at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo on Wednesday night. With tickets sold out for the clash there’s great expectation in the Uruguayan capital. Penarol, recently crowned champions [...]
Directors of Uruguayan champions Penarol are looking at the possibility of constructing a new 40,000 capacity stadium. During a reunion with Saceem, the company which will likely build the stadium, there was talk that the stadium will be located in Canelones, in the place of the old International Airport of Carrasco. However, it is unknown [...]
Recently crowned Clausura champions Penarol were held to a frustrating goalless draw by Nacional in the highly anticipated Uruguayan clasico on Sunday. Despite a capacity crowd of 65,000 at the Centenario stadium, neither team could break each other down and had to settle for a share of the spoils. With the point Nacional put an [...]
Oscar Washington Tabarez, the coach of the Uruguayan national team, affirmed to the press that his side could be the surprise package of the World Cup, even if they face a difficult group where they will meet hosts South Africa, France and Mexico. Uruguay count with a solid squad, and this is much of the [...]
Penarol came from behind to defeat Fenix 2-1 on Saturday, a result that clinched them the Uruguayan Clausura Championship. The partisan crowd of 50,000 at the Centenario stadium withstood an early scare and ended up celebrating a title triumph and Penarol’s twelfth consecutive victory of the season. The club will be hoping to continue with [...]
Uruguayan giants Penarol will be looking for a victory against Fenix on Saturday that would hand them the Clausura championship. Penarol have won all eleven of their matches this season, and will be searching for their twelfth win against second-placed Fenix. A crowd of approximately 55,000 will await the Carboneros at the legendary Centenario stadium [...]
Uruguayan giants Penarol are just one win away from securing the Clausura championship after beating Cerrito 3-1 at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo on Sunday. It was Penarol´s eleventh consecutive victory of the season, a remarkable achievement for Uruguay´s most popular club. Penarol will win the league if they overcome Fenix next week. Diego Aguirre´s [...]