{"id":31118,"date":"2015-01-26T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=31118"},"modified":"2015-01-26T21:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:59:13","slug":"fagundez-kept-on-bench-in-0-0-draw-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=31118","title":{"rendered":"Fagundez Kept On Bench in 0-0 Draw to Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diego Fagundez could only watch as the Uruguay U-20s settled for a 0-0 draw to Brazil in Monday’s first hexagonal match of the South American Youth Championship at Estadio Centenario.<\/p>\n

Fagundez, who started and went 74 minutes in Uruguay’s 1-0 loss to Venezuela on Saturday<\/a>, was kept on the bench\u00a0for Monday’s match\u00a0by coach Fabio Coito. It was the second time in five tournament\u00a0matches<\/a> that the 19-year-old did not see the pitch, with both coming against Brazil.<\/p>\n

To date, Fagundez has seen a total of 146 minutes across three appearances (two starts and one substitute appearance) for La Celeste. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Revolution midfielder, who was born in Montevideo but moved with his family to Massachusetts in 2000, spoke about the decision to choose his native country<\/a> over his adopted home in a recent report from The Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The moment came when they told me I couldn’t continue because I wasn’t a citizen or a resident,” Fagundez said. “A lot of years passed – so many years – and the situation didn’t change. I was tired of waiting for the United States.”<\/p>\n

Uruguay will face Peru for its second hexagonal match on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diego Fagundez didn’t make it past the bench in Monday’s 0-0 draw between Uruguay and Brazil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[142,888,913,892,912],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Diego-12.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31123,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118\/revisions\/31123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}