Going back to Pedro's point earlier, I would say we were primarily about quick transitions and directness albeit in a different way to Cruyff's Dream Team (which also did counter, but I wouldn't call a counter-attacking team by any stretch). Uruguay is actually a good example of a team that traditionally sets up to play on the counter, sit deep, defend with a 4-5 man backline, two hardworking DMs ahead, and a mixture of pace merchants and trickery further up the pitch.
Our problem always, invariably, is finding players who can connect the two phases effectively. More often than not the defensive players are so shit on the ball that it comes straight back at us. That's what Enzo provided for a couple of decades, to good effect (three Copa América's, all of them beating either the flavour of the times in 83, or the World Champion in 1987 and 1995). Recoba did it for a while, but he lacked industry the lazy fecker. And obviously it was what made Forlán quite clearly the best player at WC2010, what a tourno he had! Back at the Olympics people banged on about how we were taking Cavani and Suárez, and I kept saying we wouldn't do well there, guess why... No point having shiny names upfront if you can't get the ball to them.