The Uruguayan team started a new tournament in the fight for the Copa América, although those years in which, Led by Diego Forlán, they had a great participation in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and won South American glory.
Argentina was chosen as the venue that would host the Conmebol contest in 2011, where a great Uruguayan team with Diego Lugano, Luis Suárez and Forlán at the helm would lift the trophy after 16 years, with Forlán Corazzo upholding his family’s success story.
And it is that Juan Carlos Corazzo, maternal grandfather of the forward who played in clubs such as Manchester United, Atlético de Madrid and Inter Milan, he won two Copa América titles in 1959 and 1967 (called the South American Championship at the time) as technical director of the Uruguayan team.
Corazzo, who had an outstanding club career but even better on the benches, beat Argentina in the twenty-seventh edition of the tournament, while in the twenty-ninth he would take advantage of the localía to defeat the albiceleste again in the historic Centenario Stadium.
Corazzo’s daughter, Pilar, married Pablo Forlán, a footballer who lived a career full of titles, both in Uruguayan soccer with Peñarol and the national team, and in Brazil with Sao Paulo and Cruzeiro.
Like his father-in-law, Pablo Forlán lived in his own flesh the continental glory and trained by Juan Carlos Corazzo himself in that 1967 conquest in front of the Argentine team, putting their names in history.
The weight that Diego Forlán carried years later on his shoulders did not seem to have been a limitation for his career as he was champion of the Premier League, Community Shield and FA CUP with Manchester United, champion of Brazil with Inter de Porto Alegre, champion of Uruguay with Peñarol, winner in China and with titles such as UEFA Intertoto, Europa League and Eurocpa Super Cup with Villarreal and Atlético de Madrid.
His career did not end without a Copa América title as a Uruguayan.
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