Emotional: Manuel Diana scores for Uruguay
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PETER JACKSON
Nobody following the World Cup beyond the banks of the River Plate in Montevideo would have heard of a back row forward called Diana before last Wednesday.
For those tracking events in Japan from the Uruguayan capital, his mere presence beside the Pacific Ocean in a city destroyed by the tsunami of 2011 provided ample reason for tears. Manuel Diana personifies the indestructible spirit of a rugby club like no other, Old Christians.
By the time the giant-killers finished their afternoon’s work against Fij...