REIGN OF TEROS
“BUILD IT and they will come.” Coming from deep inside the cornfields, a baffled Kevin Costner heard that a few times during Field of Dreams, the 1989 Hollywood blockbuster about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball diamond on his farm that the 1919 Chicago White Sox come to play on.
He built it and they came.
The growth of Uruguayan rugby can be tied to their own field of dreams, Estadio Charrúa, which has become the centre of their success story. A derelict stadium, all but abandoned by football, had been used in 1989 for a South American Rugby Championship. Having played in that tournament, Marcello Calandra held a meeting about using the stadium on his first day as Uruguayan Rugby Union (URU) chairman. The date was 1 February 2012.
“The plan was to have a home where we
