Montevideo, Mar 20 (EFE).- The defender of the Mexican América Sebastián Cáceres was summoned this Monday to replace the injured Ronald Araujo, who will miss the friendlies of the FIFA date that Uruguay will play against South Korea and Japan.
This was announced by the Uruguayan Football Association minutes after informing that Giorgian de Arrascaeta will also miss both games and that his place will be taken by Diego Hernández.
In this way, the coach, Marcelo Broli, already had to make three changes since he presented the list of 23 called for the friendlies, taking into account that on March 17 he called Jonathan Rodríguez to replace the injured Darwin Núñez.
Without the historic Luis Suárez, Edinson Cavani, Diego Godín and José María Giménez, the Real Madrid midfielder Federico Valverde will be one of those in charge of leading a squad in which there will be several rookies.
Some of them are the defender Joaquín Piquerez, the midfielder Felipe Carballo and the striker Matías Arezo.
Also appearing on the list of 23 players are World Cup players Sergio Rochet, Sebastián Coates, Matías Viña, José Luis Rodríguez, Mathías Olivera, Matías Vecino, Facundo Pellistri, Agustín Canobbio, Facundo Torres and Maximiliano Gómez.
Broli, coach of Uruguay’s under-20 team, was appointed to lead the senior team on an interim basis in the friendlies they will play against Japan on March 24 and against South Korea four days later.
In the first of these, La Celeste will face a team that was a revelation in the World Cup in Qatar after advancing to the round of 16 after beating Germany and Spain.
Then he will play against one of the rivals he had in the World Cup, although this time South Korea will face the game with a new coach after the German Jurgen Klinsmann replaced the Portuguese Paulo Bento.