132 Uzie

Uzie is the TDD soccer player.

His name relates to Graham Zusi, a professional soccer player on the US team.

In 2006, when this figure was released, Zusi was playing in college for the University of Maryland.  His team had won the National Championships in 2005.  Then they won again in 2008.

Uzie has a zood named Romeo.  He is an armadillo painted like a soccer ball.  This is appropriate because of the fact that a 3-banded armadillo can curl itself into a perfect ball as a defense mechanism. Honestly, Romeo looks like a 5-banded armadillo though, which isn't even a thing.  There is a 6-banded -- but this species cannot do the ball trick.  At any rate, there are many species of armadillo all over the same South American countries that love soccer, ahem, football.  

As far as that name, Romeo, I am sure it has to do with some soccer player.  My best guess is Bernardo Romeo, an Argentine player.  He played for several teams in the mid-2000s including ones in Spain and Germany.  However, I cannot find a link between him and Graham Zusi, so it might turn out to be a reference to some other soccer player with the name Romeo. 

Anyway, with the addition of Uzie, we now have Tech Deck Dudes for baseball, football, basketball, hockey, tennis, and soccer.  Plus wrestling, sumo wrestling, boxing, and weight lifting.  Plus motocross, surfing, skiing, and snowboarding.

Plenty of sports in Dudeville!