The Uruguay national football team plays a sport.
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup , the world championship for men 's national association football teams . Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball . The FIFA World Cup , often simply called the World Cup , is an international association football competition contested by the senior men 's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ) , the sport 's global governing body . Association football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men 's competition sport , except 1896 and 1932 . Uruguay national football team . Another unique achievement of Uruguay is that it ´ s the only nation in world football to organize multiple major international tournaments in own country and win them all .