Striker Dirk Kuyt headed a stoppage-time equalizer for last year’s World Cup runners-up the Netherlands in a 1-1 draw with Uruguay in a friendly at the Centenario Stadium on Wednesday.
Uruguay then lifted the Fraternity Trophy that had been put in play by winning a shootout 4-3 after Robin van Persie had blasted the opening penalty over the bar.
Luis Suarez, Kuyt’s Liverpool teammate, put Uruguay ahead eight minutes from time.
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Edinson Cavani pulled the ball back from deep on the left into the middle where Suarez calmly picked his spot to place the ball inside goalkeeper Tim Krul’s left-hand post.
When a Uruguay win looked certain, Kuyt glanced a corner to the near post over midfielder Sebastian Eguren and goalkeeper Fernando Muslera into the net.
“I think it was a fair result,” said Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez, who was preparing his side for next month’s Copa America in Argentina.
In the shootout, Krul, who kept a clean sheet on his debut in a 0-0 draw with Brazil in Goiania, Brazil, on Saturday, saved from Ajax’s Nicolas Lodeiro, but Eljero Elia then missed for the Dutch.
Both sides, meeting for the first time since the Dutch won their World Cup semi--final 3-2 in Cape Town last year, had chances, with Suarez being denied a first-half goal for offside.
Muslera saved well with his foot from Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who was through on goal and Uruguay captain Diego Lugano was lucky to not even be booked for a studs-first foul on van Persie.
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