Luis Suarez

Luis SuarezCareer: football player, athlete

Date of birth: January 24, 1987

Age: 37 years

Place of birth: Salto, Uruguay

Position: Forward

Working leg: right

Height/weight: 185 cm / 74 kg

Marital status: married

 

 

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Luis Suarez is a unique footballer who has repeatedly proven his greatness at the highest levels. Born in Uruguay, he began his career at his home club Nacional, where he immediately declared himself a bright star. But real fame came to him after moving to Ajax, where Suarez became one of the best scorers in the Eredivisie and helped the club win many trophies. In 2011, Luis moved to Liverpool, where he revealed himself in all his glory. His phenomenal scoring ability, incredible technique and fighting spirit made him an idol of the Reds fans. He brought Liverpool many victories, and his double against Manchester United in the 2013/14 season is still remembered as one of the best matches in the history of this great rivalry. Luis Suarez Best friend of Thibaut Courtois.

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In 2014, Suarez moved to Barcelona, ​​where he became even more legendary. Together with Lionel Messi and Neymar, he formed a formidable trio that dominated La Liga and the Champions League for several years. Suarez became one of the club’s top scorers, won the Golden Boot three times and helped Barca win many titles.

Luis Suarez is also a key player for the Uruguayan national team. He took part in three World Cups and helped the country win the Copa America in 2011. His game has always been distinguished by selflessness, aggression and uncompromisingness in the fight for victory. On this site you will find detailed information about Luis Suarez’s career, achievements, statistics, highlights, as well as news and interviews. We will regularly update the content so that you are always up to date with the events related to your idol. Join our community of Luis Suarez fans and enjoy his game with us!

Biography

Some call Luis Suarez an unbalanced psychopath, others see him as a living legend of modern football. For several years, the desire to win, bordering on madness, helped the Uruguayan to retain his place as a leading forward in various FCs. Bright passes and passes, polished technique of strikes, drive in the game provided the athlete with a huge army of fans in many countries of the world. The most popular basketball player Stephen Curry!

Childhood and youth

On January 24, 1987, retired military man Rodolfo Suarez and his wife Sandra had a son, who they named Luis Alberto. The family lived in Uruguay’s second largest city, Salto. The famous striker spent his childhood in an atmosphere of constant need and deprivation. Despite the fact that his parents took on any job, there was a catastrophic lack of money to support seven children. When Luis was 7 years old, his parents moved to the capital of Uruguay in search of a better life.

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From the striker’s biography, it is known that Suarez showed an interest in sports from a young age. His playing style was formed on the streets of Montevideo, where the boy played football in the company of his peers in the evenings. Sandra supported her son in every possible way. The woman even managed to get her beloved child into the local football team.

In 1998, Suarez’s parents separated. Luis, who was just over 10 years old, was left in the care of his mother along with his six brothers. Without a role model in front of him, the boy, left to his own devices, went wild: he skipped training, and preferred parties and alcohol to school. However, over time he managed to pull himself together and began to seriously engage in football.

Club career

At the age of 17, in March 2005, Suarez made his debut in the main team of the football club “Nacional”. In August, Luis Suarez was again included in the starting lineup of the team. During the season, he scored 12 goals in 29 matches and helped the FC become the champion of the country. Suarez became a versatile forward, capable of playing both at the tip of the attack and in the draw. In the summer of 2006, the 19-year-old footballer moved to the modest Dutch “Groningen” for € 800 thousand. It is noteworthy that scouts from Europe were planning to sign a contract with another player, and Suarez was not even on their shortlist. Having seen the energetic forward (Luis’s height is 182 cm, weight – 86 kg) in action, they decided that they did not need anyone else. In his first season for the new club, the young man scored 10 goals in 29 matches. Suarez’s success at club level did not go unnoticed, and in 2007, Ajax bought the player for €7.5 million. He scored 17 goals in the season. The player’s second season began under the management of Marco van Basten. Despite the fact that Luis received many yellow cards, argued with teammates and constantly argued with the coach, he scored 22 goals in 31 matches. The 2009/2010 season was the peak of Suarez’s stay in Holland: then he “shot” 35 goals in 33 games, and new coach Martin Jola appointed Luis as the captain of Ajax. In the 2010/2011 season, Luis scored his 100th goal for Ajax and joined the ranks of such players as Dennis Bergkamp and Marco van Basten. In November 2010, in a match against PSV, for reasons unknown to this day, the athlete bit the Dutch club’s midfielder Otman Bakkal on the neck. For unsportsmanlike behavior, FIFA representatives disqualified the forward for 7 matches. In January 2011, the transfer window opened. The scandalous striker was of interest to the Ukrainian Shakhtar and St. Petersburg Zenit, but then Luis said that he was not going to play for these clubs. On January 28, the footballer moved to Liverpool. The transfer price was € 26.5 million. The season was remembered for another scandal: on October 15, in a match against Manchester United, Suarez exchanged a few remarks with the opponent’s black defender Patrice Evra. After that, Evra accused Luis of racist statements.

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The Liverpool coach and fans defended the player, claiming that the press had blown the hype out of proportion. FIFA conducted an investigation and found Suarez guilty. He paid a fine and served an 8-match ban. In the 2012/2013 season, Luis scored 23 goals in 33 matches. On April 21, 2013, Liverpool hosted Chelsea at their stadium. Early in the 2nd half, Suarez handled the ball in his own penalty area and was the culprit of a penalty. The frustrated player once again lost his temper and bit Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic. Luis was disqualified for 10 matches. In the 2013/2014 season, Suarez formed a striking partnership with Daniel Sturridge and scored 31 goals in 33 matches. No one scored more goals against the opponent that year, only Cristiano Ronaldo was as productive. Luis signed a new contract with the club and became the highest paid player at Liverpool. That same year, as the top scorer, he won the Golden Boot, and later received the Golden Ball of the Club World Cup. Despite the ongoing hype around the forward’s behavior, on July 11, 2014, the Spanish Barcelona announced Suarez’s transfer to the Blaugrana. Luis missed pre-season training with the team and almost half of the season due to disqualification. The forward could not even watch the training of his new team. After a series of appeals, he was allowed to participate in friendly matches. The forward made his debut for Barcelona on October 25, 2014 in a game against Real Madrid. Suarez, who formed a formidable partnership with Lionel Messi and Neymar, scored many decisive goals, thereby improving his own statistics and earning the right to be called a legend of the club. Already in his first season with the “blue garnets”, the Uruguayan managed to make a “golden hat-trick”: winning the Spanish championship, the Spanish Cup and the UEFA Champions League. In 2016, Barcelona bought midfielder Denis Suarez, the namesake of the Uruguayan. At his first training session, the ambitious young man said that he would do everything possible to one day wear the shirt with number 6 (at one time, the Catalan midfielder Xavi played under this number). Luis seriously advised the newcomer to talk less and do more. In the future, Suarez continued to defend the honor of the Barcelona football club. In 2018, his salary was £15.08 million. Luis’s collection of best performances included a backheel goal he scored against Mallorca in the 15th round of La Liga 2019.

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In 2020, changes were expected in Suarez’s sports career: Spanish media reported on Barcelona’s decision to part ways with the player. One of the reasons was Luis’s injury, which forced him to undergo surgery at the beginning of the year. It was assumed that the footballer would be replaced on the field by his namesake from the Real Zaragoza team – 22-year-old Colombian forward Luis Javier Suarez. For the early termination of the contract, which expired in 2021, Suarez planned to receive € 25 million from the Catalan club. Luis did not waste time – he held talks with Inter from Miami, David Beckham’s football club. It also became known that the Italian Juventus was interested in the forward’s services, where he was ready to move on a free agent. Despite the fact that Europe remained the athlete’s priority, he did not rule out the possibility of moving to Major League Soccer (MLS). At the end of September 2020, it became known that Suarez, as a free agent, left Barcelona and moved to Atletico Madrid. According to the contract, the athlete’s salary in the new team was € 9 million per year. Just 3 days after receiving membership in the Madrid club, the footballer took to the field in a match with Granada, where he scored an assist and a double against the opponent. The match with Valladolid, which took place as part of the Spanish La Liga, was a bright one for the striker. The “mattress makers” managed to snatch a victory with a score of 2: 1, after which the cameras caught a crying Luis in their lenses – the photo flew around the Internet. And in September, also in La Liga, the Uruguayan met with Barcelona players – the match ended with a score of 2: 0 in favor of Suarez’s new club. Luis managed to score a goal, but out of respect for his former teammates, he did not celebrate the victory.

In April 2022, in a match against Alaves, Suarez scored 2 goals, which helped the team win with a score of 4:1. Despite the success of the striker, in May, the management of Atletico Madrid announced that the player would leave the FC when the season ended. In the summer, Luis really became a free agent. Several clubs negotiated with him at once, but in the end he returned to Uruguayan Nacional, where he began his career. With this team, the player won the Uruguayan championship, scoring 8 goals in 12 matches, and then terminated the contract.

Uruguay National Team

The young footballer’s success at Groningen soon earned Suarez an invitation to the Uruguayan national team. In his debut friendly match against Colombia, the young man received a red card for arguing with the referee. The Uruguayan national team had a hard time getting to the 2010 World Cup. The first match with France ended with a score of 0:0. Both teams did not show their best side. In the second match, Uruguay defeated the tournament hosts, South Africa, with a score of 3:0. In that game, Suarez earned a penalty and set up the third goal. In the last match of the group stage, Uruguay beat Mexico with a score of 1:0. Luis Suarez scored the only goal in that match. In the 1/8 finals, Uruguay met the South Korean national team, the match ended with a score of 2:1. Both goals were scored by the Ajax captain. In the quarterfinals, Uruguay faced the Ghana national team. In added time, with the score at 1:1, the Ghana national team players pressed the opponent’s goal several times in a protracted attack. In one of these moments, Suarez took on the role of goalkeeper and blocked the ball with both hands. The referee sent him off and in the last seconds of the game called a penalty. The captain of the Ghana national team missed. In the post-match penalty shootout, Uruguay won and reached the semi-finals of the World Cup for the first time in 40 years.

Suarez called this moment “the hand of God”. Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac, on the contrary, considered the result of the match unfair, and Suarez a real villain. Due to the dismissal, Luis missed the semi-final match with Holland, which Uruguay lost with a score of 2:3. At the 2014 World Cup, Uruguay ended up in the “group of death” along with Italy, England and Costa Rica. Suarez arrived at the championship after an operation on his left knee and did not participate in the first match, which Uruguay lost to Costa Rica. In the second game against England, the national team player scored 2 goals and put his team ahead.

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In the game against Italy, in the 79th minute of the match, Suarez collided with Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini in the opponents’ penalty area and bit him on the shoulder. The referee ignored the incident. After the game, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee disqualified the footballer for nine international matches. Four years later, the footballer arrived in Russia with the national team for the next World Cup, where the Uruguayan national team met with players from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the hosts of the championship in the group stage, beating them and Portugal in the 1/8. But in the quarterfinals, the Uruguayans lost to France. Suarez participated in all five matches and scored a goal each against the Russians and the Arabian team. In 2019, the forward surprised fans by becoming the goalkeeper in a farewell match with his compatriot Diego Forlan. Juan Sebastian Veron, Juan Roman Riquelme and Javier Zanetti also took to the field in this game.

That same year, fans appreciated the athlete’s skills in the Copa America: in a match with the Ecuadorians, the player scored a goal in the 44th minute (Uruguay ended the match with a score of 4:0), and also sent the ball into the goal of Japan from a penalty kick, which allowed the opponents to play a draw. Suarez was later included in the national team for the 2021 Copa America. At the end of 2022, Suarez was included in the national team’s application for the World Cup. However, Uruguay took only third place in the group and did not reach the playoffs. Luis did not score any goals.

Outside of football

Like many athletes, Suarez has participated in various advertising campaigns. For a long time, the footballer collaborated with Adidas, and in 2018, he became the face of the Puma brand. Over time, the list of brands that the Uruguayan worked with has increased significantly. Among them were not only those that were directly related to sportswear, but also those that were engaged in the sale of cosmetics, electronics and other goods.

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Also, fans of Luis were able to see their idol as a character in the EA Sports FIFA video game series. However, after the footballer bit Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup and received a fine for it, Suarez’s figure did not appear in the FIFA-15 series of games until the ban on the striker’s performances was lifted. By the way, after the incident, one of the Uruguayan’s sponsors, 888poker, terminated the contract with the athlete. Among other things, the player is a frequent guest on television and radio programs. In the interview, he talks about both his professional activities and life off the field.

Personal life

Luis and Sophie Balbi got married in 2009 in Montevideo, the city where they first met. On August 5, 2010, the couple had a daughter, Delfina (later, the media reported that the girl’s name was an anagram of Anfield, the Liverpool stadium). On August 26, 2013, their son Benjamin was born. The footballer celebrated the birth of his heir on the field during the Reds’ match against Sunderland by greeting him after scoring a goal. Five years later, the striker’s family had a second son, who was named Lautaro.

The love story of the future spouses is still considered one of the brightest in the sports environment. The first meeting of the teenagers took place at a party with mutual friends. Luis was already 15 years old, Sophie had just crossed the threshold of her 13th birthday. They fell in love with each other at first sight. The girl was from a wealthy family, but she was not embarrassed by the young man’s origin. However, the first date did not take place: the lovers missed each other in a shopping center, where they decided to meet.

The guy earned money for trips to his beloved by cleaning the premises, he was also given money for goals scored in the Nacional club. Sophie, in turn, monitored Suarez’s academic performance and made sure that he did not miss football training. After the Balbi family was forced to move to Barcelona, ​​the young people said goodbye, thinking that forever.

However, Luis managed to overcome all obstacles and also ended up in Europe. A week after his arrival, Sophie took her things from her parents’ house and went to her chosen one. Today, Balbi is not only the mother and wife of an accomplished athlete, but also a successful businesswoman. Together with his wife Messi, she is engaged in the promotion of a shoe brand. Now, for Suarez, his wife and children are the most important thing in life. The footballer has repeatedly said that if he had to choose between a career and a family, he would choose his loved ones without hesitation. In 2017, Louis released a book titled I Am the Shot Man. In his autobiography, he outlined the story of his career and personal life.

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Luis Suarez now

On the last day of 2023, the Brazilian Gremio announced the signing of the footballer. In his debut match for the new team, Suarez scored a hat-trick. In the summer of 2023, rumors emerged about Luis’s negotiations with Inter Miami. However, the Brazilian club stated that the athlete would stay with them at least until the end of the year. He himself also confirmed this. In December, it was announced that Suarez was moving to the MLS club under the “1+1” scheme. There he was reunited with Messi. Luis Suarez did not hide his joy about the opportunity to play again with the Argentine, whom he called the best player in the world and his wonderful friend. However, the Uruguayan did not hide the fact that Inter Miami would be the last club in his career.

Achievements Luis Suarez

  • 2014/15, 2015/16, 2017/18, 2018/19 — Champion of Spain
  • 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 — Winner of the Spanish Cup
  • 2016, 2018 Winner of the Spanish Super Cup
  • 2014/15 — Winner of the UEFA Champions League
  • 2015 — Winner of the UEFA Super Cup
  • 2015 — Winner of the FIFA Club World Cup
  • 2020/21 — Champion of Spain
  • 2011 — Winner of the Copa America
  • The best scorer in the history of the Uruguay national team: 55 goals
  • 2011 — The best footballer of the Copa America
  • 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 — The best footballer of the Uruguay national team
  • 2009/10 — The best scorer of the championship Netherlands
  • 2009/10 — Best Player of the Dutch Championship
  • 2013/14 — Member of the PFA Team of the Year
  • 2013/14 — Top Scorer of the English Premier League
  • 2015/16 — Top Scorer of the Spanish Championship
  • 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 — Best Assistant of the Spanish Championship
  • 2015/16 — Top Scorer of the Spanish Cup

FAQ

What teams has Luis Suarez played for?
Suarez has played for Ajax, Liverpool, Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid.
How many goals has Suarez scored for Uruguay?
He has scored over 60 goals for the national team.
What are Suarez’s major achievements?
He won multiple league titles, the UEFA Champions League, and the Copa America with Uruguay.
Is Suarez known for any controversies?
Yes, he has faced suspensions for biting incidents and other disciplinary issues.
What position does Suarez play?
He primarily plays as a striker.
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