A family moment for Cachavaca

Diego Forlan completed a remarkable achievement for his family with Uruguay's record 15th Copa America title on Sunday. "My generation, my grandfather, my father and I have gone down in football history," said Forlan, whose nickname is Cachavaca, a popular fictional witch.

Diego Forlan completed a remarkable achievement for his family with Uruguay's record 15th Copa America title on Sunday.

Forlan's father and grandfather were also South American champions with Uruguay over a period spanning the 95 years of the world's oldest active tournament.

"My generation, my grandfather, my father and I have gone down in football history," Forlan, whose nickname is Cachavaca, a popular fictional witch, told reporters after Uruguay's victory at River Plate's Monumental packed with 55,000 fans.

"It makes me very proud that my grandfather was a champion, my father too, it doesn't happen every day," he said after contributing two goals to Uruguay's 3-0 win over Paraguay in the final.

Forlan ended a year without scoring for his country and his two goals put him equal as Uruguay's top international marksman with the late Hector Scarone, a World Cup and double Olympic soccer title winner between 1924 and 1930.

His maternal grandfather Juan Carlos Corazo and 66-year-old father Pablo, a defender at the 1966 and 1974 World Cups, played in Uruguayan sides that won the South American crown.

Uruguay's 15 titles, one more than hosts Argentina whom their upset on penalties in the quarter-finals, include winning in 1987 beating Chile at the Monumental in Buenos Aires and their last at home in 1995 when they beat Brazil at the Centenario in Montevideo.