Uruguayan sport flags

Last modified: 2004-12-28 by francisco gregoric
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• Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (Uruguayan Football Asociation)
  
• Uruguayan football national team colors

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Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (Uruguayan Football Asociation)

The flag of the Uruguayan Football Asociation (Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol AUF.) is clearly inspired by the nine white and blue stripes of the Pabellon Nacional (the Uruguayan National Flag), and by the red diagonal of the Artigas' Flag. The flag has the acronym of the asociation (A.U.DE F.) in white letters, inside the red diagonal.
Francisco Gregoric, 12 Jun 2004

Uruguayan football national team colors

«How come then that the Uruguayan football national team wears celeste jerseys?». After some research I found that in 1910, in Buenos Aires, just before a football match between the national teams of both countries [Uruguay and A