###Uruguay really has 4 World Championships? The Uruguay shirt with four stars on its shield may be surprising, but it has an explanation that, however, raises some controversy among rival teams. There are not many who can match this score. We are talking about one of the great teams in the history of football.

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The South American country wears a star for the 1930 World Cup, the first to be held, and then for the 1950 World Cup, where it became champion with the Maracanazo. However, the other two stars commemorate the titles of the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games.

FIFA organized the football discipline in those Olympic Games held in Paris and Amsterdam respectively and Uruguay won both. Without a doubt, La Celeste dominated world football for a decade with absolute authority.

The FIFA museum in the Swiss city of Zurich confirms this fact and classifies it as a world championship: “By winning Olympic gold in 1924 and 1928, and the World Cup in 1930, Uruguay achieved a hat-trick of world titles.” . However, the great football body in 2021 asked Uruguay to remove two stars from its shirt. The South American country appealed and defended its position and was able to maintain all four to this day.