Spain reach quarter finals, Uruguay-born Muñoz yet to feature

Spain are through to the World Cup quarter finals after knocking out Portugal on Monday, and there is a Uruguay-shaped footnote in their squad. Víctor Muñoz, the Uruguay-born winger Liverpool signed this summer, is yet to play a single minute at this tournament (1). Spain beat Portugal to advance, but Muñoz remained on the bench, the same role he has filled throughout the campaign. For Uruguayans, watching a player born on home soil travel deep into a World Cup while your own team crashed out in the group stage with two points and a fractured dressing room stings twice over.