Uruguay is a small country but with a lot of football history. We've won so many things, and so the people are always expecting us to do good things.
Norway has a great history of women's football, but it's harder now. We've stopped talking about development, and other countries have overtaken us.
In Uruguay, there is a football pitch every hundred metres, whether it is made by grass, small stones, or sand. This has been my football education.
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
English football is really different to football in other countries.
There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and their revolution like all the rest. But somehow, there's something in them.
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur. And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support.
I have suggested that Brazilian enterprises invest in Uruguay and Paraguay. These are small economies, so some things can be produced in these countries that will give them greater and more equitable involvement in the Mercosur game.
Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.
All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.
I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre.
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
It's not that India, China and the United States need football, but football needs these three countries. Because it will be even bigger.
For Brazil or any other national team in the world, to play Uruguay is a commitment and a very tough match.
Remember, the American grand strategy works when other countries feel secure. But it doesn't work if we acquiesce in the aggression of other countries.