Tonight Uruguay play their second WC group game against Cabo Verde. Have you not yet picked up my new book URUGUAY, the perfect World Cup companion? Or its prequel? You should!(please) www.amazon.co.uk/Uruguay-Foot... www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1801...

Spotted @martindacruz.bsky.social’s new book in Foyles today 🇺🇾 Can’t lie, I won’t be paying too much attention to this World Cup, but Uruguay are my second team Roots-wise, Italy aren’t in it and I am 1/8 Scottish, so I don’t associate that much with them, so Uru it is. Love that place and people

OUT NOW! Uruguay: Football’s First Global Power, 1918-1930 Links to purchase and more here: martindacruz.substack.com/p/my-uruguay...

NEW: 18 days til Uruguay: Football’s First Global Power is out. My latest countdown post on the 1924 Paris Games: La Celeste flees the Olympic Village and finds refuge at an old chateau in Argenteuil. Peace before the storm. martindacruz.substack.com/p/argenteuil...

OTD in 1924, Uruguay’s Olympic squad arrived in Paris. With 3 weeks til Uruguay: Football’s First Global Power is out, my first countdown post follows La Celeste’s first European journey, where they shocked the footballing world. Read, subscribe & share please! open.substack.com/pub/martinda...

NEW Substack post: Héctor Scarone - El Mago. Key figure of Uruguay’s Olympic Generation. URUGUAY out 8 June, just four weeks away, via @PitchPublishing open.substack.com/pub/martinda...

Héctor Scarone. El Rasquetita. El Mago. The best player in the world. Three-time world champion. New post later this week on Uruguay’s magician… martindacruz.substack.com Just FIVE weeks until the release of URUGUAY: Football’s First Global Power pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/uruguay

NEW: On this International Workers’ Day, a Substack post on Uruguay’s Olympic Generation, workers before they became legends A taste of my new book URUGUAY: Football’s First Global Power, out 8 June via @PitchPublishing. Perfect World Cup prep. open.substack.com/pub/martinda...

BIG NEWS! My new book URUGUAY will be out on 8 JUNE via @PitchPublishing, just in time for the World Cup! pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/uruguay Get excited!

On this day in 1897, amid civil war, Albion faced a British Navy side at Punta Carretas before Montevideo’s biggest crowd yet. Read about Uruguay’s first football club + the game’s popularisation in From Beauty to Duty, essential pre-reading for URUGUAY. www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/beauty-...

🇺🇾 At the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay, these guides were handed out allowing radio listeners to follow the game —specifically where on the pitch the action was taking place— as relayed by the commentators Via /pixelarq (X)

NEW: José Nasazzi - El Terrible First proper Substack post up now. Please read/share/subscribe, thanks! martindacruz.substack.com/p/jose-nasaz...

NEW: José Nasazzi - El Terrible First proper Substack post up now. Please read/share/subscribe, thanks! martindacruz.substack.com/p/jose-nasaz...

José Nasazzi. El Terrible. Captain of Captains. Triple world champion. More on El Mariscal tomorrow… 🇺🇾 martindacruz.substack.com

Ahead of my new book URUGUAY: Football’s First Global Power, I’ve launched a Substack to introduce you to the Olympic Generation: Uruguay’s 1924-1930 golden era. martindacruz.substack.com Please subscribe and share. Intro post up now, first proper entry next week. Thanks!

Oh look, my new book available for preorder on amzn and elsewhere (pub date subject to change). Can’t wait for people to read. www.amazon.co.uk/Uruguay-Foot... Also: cover reveal!!

Prepare for URUGUAY with its predecessor, From Beauty to Duty.  How Uruguay laid the groundwork for a generation that would dominate world football. See one review below ⬇️  www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/beauty-...

First book was brilliant. Second book is now awaited with great impatience on my part. Excellent work, Martin!

Prepare for URUGUAY with its predecessor, From Beauty to Duty.  How Uruguay laid the groundwork for a generation that would dominate world football. See one review below ⬇️  www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/beauty-...

🚨 NEW YEAR, NEW BOOK Uruguay: Football’s First Global Power, 1918-1930, my sequel to From Beauty to Duty. Coming June 2026 via @PitchPublishing 1924 Paris Olympics. 1928 Amsterdam. Inaugural World Cup, Montevideo 1930. And the story in between… Preorders soon, please share & follow for updates!

🚨 NEW YEAR, NEW BOOK Uruguay: Football’s First Global Power, 1918-1930, my sequel to From Beauty to Duty. Coming June 2026 via @PitchPublishing 1924 Paris Olympics. 1928 Amsterdam. Inaugural World Cup, Montevideo 1930. And the story in between… Preorders soon, please share & follow for updates!