Luis Suarez Biography

Luis Alberto Suarez Diaz (in Spanish: Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz), is a Uruguayan soccer player, born January 24, 1987 in Salto in Uruguay. And currently plays with the Spanish club FC Barcelona since 2014.

Teams:

Beginnings

He began his career with Nacional Club in 2005, and played with them until 2006, playing 29 appearances and scored 12

goals, and in the season 2006/2007 he moved to the Dutch club Gronenngen, playing with them 33 appearances and scored 13 goals, and in August 2007 he moved to Ajax Amsterdam after the Dutch in 2011, specifically in the month of January moved to Liverpool. He has been playing with Uruguay team football since 2007.  

Suarez joined the team Nacional Montevideo local for youth at the age of 14 years. One night he was arrested drinking and attend concerts, and his coach threatened he would not play unless began playing football more seriously. In May 2005, at age 16, he played for the first time against the first team Junior de Barranquilla in the Libertadores Cup. And scored his first goal in September 2005 and helped Nacional win the 2005-06 Uruguayan leagues with 10 goals in 28 games.

Ajax:

In 2006, a group of Dutch team Groningen scouts saw while in Uruguay, and through the one match Suarez played, decided to sign him in return (800,000) pounds, where he moved to the Netherlands, but it has suffered a lot in terms of language and did not acclimate only when they make a big effort in order to learn the Dutch language.

Having scored ten goals for the team in the season 2006- 2007 for the Dutch team , Ajax officials attached asked to join him versus (3.5) million pounds, but Groningen rejected the offer, which hit the star Uruguayan a disappointment by that, then Ajax lifted the value to (7.5) million pounds and Suarez moved to the giant Ajax .

He achieved with Ajax:

- Dutch league title once.

- Netherlands Cup title once.

Liverpool:

Suarez starred much in the ranks of Ajax, where he played 110 games, scoring 81 goals, and in 2011 moved to Liverpool.

Barcelona:

On July 11, 2014 Suarez moved to FC Barcelona, and in spite of the failure to disclose the value of the deal, but the English press confirming that it is close to the value of 75 million pounds (94.34 million euros). And Suarez will wear No. 9 shirt, Suarez will not be able to play directly with his new team, as he will miss some games as a result of the punishment of FIFA against him, after biting of the Italian defender Giorgio Cellini in in world Cup football 2014. Where punishment includes prevent Suarez from playing any official match for 4 months (until October 26), then they allowed him to train with his new team Barcelona until the end of the punishment to play again.

International career:

World cup 2010:

Suarez nick named handball player could to score three goals in the World Cup, and was sent off in the first quarter-final with Ghana due to deliberately push the ball for the net with his hand to calculate the referee a penalty kick in the last seconds the game, but the ball hit the existing top of the net and it was for this act it played a major role in Uruguay to qualify for the semi-finals.

Copa America 2011:

In the Copa America, Suarez scored his first goal in the opening match against Peru which ended 1-1.Uragway ended the group stage in second place and qualified for the second round. League quarter-final Uruguay eliminated the host country Argentina's lead to 4-5 on penalties after the match ended runs a 1-1 draw. In the semi-finals Suarez scored twice in front of Peru to qualify Uruguay for the final after winning 2-0. Match against Paraguay in the final, Suarez scored the first goal for his team to win Uruguay 3-0 and become the champion of Cuba 15 times in its history. Suarez finished the tournament scoring 4 goals and won the award for the best player in the tournament.

2012 Olympic Games:

Luis Suarez participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics with the Uruguay national team. And helped his team to win the national team over Chile 6-4 in warm-up matches for the Olympics and scored a hat-trick.

Suarez has been selected captain of Uruguay in the Olympics. In the opening match of the national team managed to defeat the United Arab Emirates national team. After that Uruguay lost the first two games against Senegal and England to leave the tournament at the group stage without Suarez to score a goal.

Confederations Cup 2013:

Suarez took part in the Confederations Cup held in Brazil in 2013. In the opening game he scored from a free kick from 25 yards against Uruguay, but lost against Spain 2-1. Suarez scored two goals against Tahiti and helped his team win 8-0 to become the outcome after that; he became the top scorer in the history of the Uruguay team with 35 goals. Uruguay qualified for the roles but it lost in front of Brazil 1-2 to be deposited.

World Cup2014:

Luis Suarez Played two only matches in World Cup Brazil, scored in the first two goals against England, while the second was in front of the Italian team, where he bite the Italian defender Giorgio Cellini, to be prevented from carrying out any activity by FIFA for 4 months and 9 international matches, It is the longest sentence in the history of the prevention of the International Federation of Football Association.