Mauricio Pereyra, footballer for the National Football Club, stated that qualifying for the 2025 Club World Cup is the Tricolor’s biggest objective in this 2024 season, and described this goal as something ‘real and achievable’.
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In dialogue with Exclusive Rights (Radio Uruguay 1050 AM), the Uruguayan player assured: “Getting to the Club World Cup seems to me to be the biggest challenge of the year. We know that we have to have a lot of points, mainly to get into the Libertadores.”
Nacional has two ways to participate in the 2025 Club Super World Cup organized by FIFA: be champion of the CONMEBOL Libertadores 2024, or be one of the best clubs ranked in the classification determined by FIFA to define the last participants of the contest that will be held. will take place in the United States.
First, the Bag must overcome phase 3 of the Libertadores against Always Ready, which would first give it three points for entering the group stage of the Cup and then add more units in each match (the draws or wins in the previous phase of Libertadores do not add points in this ranking, the units achieved in matches in the group stage or final phase are considered).
“We have a match where we should not underestimate the opponent beyond height, we saw how they played in the first half against Sporting Cristal in Peru in phase 2, where Always Ready played them as equals and created situations for them”Pereyra assessed.
And he added about the great goal of the Uruguayan team, a country that until now has not had any representative in the entire history of the Club World Cup (Nacional and Peñarol did win three Intercontinental Cups each): “You have to go step by step, but the greatest objective is that. We know that we cannot let ourselves be carried away by what the fan wants, but yes We see it as a real and achievable goal”.
Pereyra noted: “First we have to qualify for the group stage of the Libertadores, that would give us three points and from there I think that by having a good Cup we have a chance of qualifying. Obviously there is a lot of work left, many things to improve and the fact of having all these matches with international friction before starting the Libertadores is going to help us and strengthen the team.”
“I think so, that It is the main objective, we must put it in our heads that we have to have a good cup and we have to fight for the Uruguayan Championship because the history of Nacional demands it, finishing second is not enough“, stated the player born on March 15, 1990, who in his career defended Lanús, Krasnodar of Russia and Orlando City.