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 . The 2011 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América , better known as the 2011 Copa América or the Copa América 2011 Argentina , was the 43rd edition of the Copa América , the main international football tournament for national teams in South America . 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 . The Uruguay national football team represents Uruguay in international association football and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association , the governing body for football in Uruguay .