{"id":706191,"date":"2026-05-31T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706191\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:39:10","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8-uruguay-unveil-marcelo-bielsas-squad-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706191\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 Uruguay unveil Marcelo Bielsa&#8217;s squad for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguay already has its squad list ready for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/fifa-world-cup-12\/fixtures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>. Among the 26 players chosen by Marcelo Bielsa for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/fifa-world-cup-12\/fixtures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>, there is one clear omission, although few surprises otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The main surprise is the absence of Nahitan N\u00e1ndez, a regular starter during the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/manuel-ugarte-184937\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manuel Ugarte<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/emiliano-martinez-20292\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emiliano Mart\u00ednez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/rodrigo-bentancur-111942\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo Bentancur<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/federico-valverde-176958\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federico Valverde<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/agustin-canobbio-184927\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agust\u00edn Canobbio<\/a>, Juan Manuel Sanabria, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/giorgian-de-arrascaeta-40871\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giorgian de Arrascaeta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/nicolas-de-la-cruz-206952\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicol\u00e1s de la Cruz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/rodrigo-zalazar-319354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo Zalazar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/facundo-pellistri-297852\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facundo Pellistri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/maximiliano-araujo-294777\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maximiliano Ara\u00fajo<\/a>, Brian Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 Julian Finney &#8211; 2026 Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uruguay already has its squad list ready for the 2026 World Cup. Among the 26 players chosen by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-706191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}