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Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz (American Spanish

Luis Suárez is a Uruguayan professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Atlético Madrid and the Uruguayan national team. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and has won numerous trophies at the club and international level, including La Liga titles with Barcelona and Atlético Madrid, the Champions League with Barcelona, and the 2011 Copa América with Uruguay. Known for his finishing, passing, and ball control, Suárez has scored over 500 career goals and has been a controversial figure due to incidents of biting opponents and racially abusing other players.

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Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz (American Spanish

Luis Suárez is a Uruguayan professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Atlético Madrid and the Uruguayan national team. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and has won numerous trophies at the club and international level, including La Liga titles with Barcelona and Atlético Madrid, the Champions League with Barcelona, and the 2011 Copa América with Uruguay. Known for his finishing, passing, and ball control, Suárez has scored over 500 career goals and has been a controversial figure due to incidents of biting opponents and racially abusing other players.

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Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz (American Spanish: [ˈlwis ˈswaɾes]; born 24 January 1987) is a

Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish club Atlético
Madrid and the Uruguay national team. Known for his passing, finishing and comfort
with the ball, he is regarded as one of the best players of his generation, and one of the
greatest strikers of all time,[note 1] Suárez has won nineteen major trophies in his career,
including seven league titles and a UEFA Champions League at club level, as well as
the 2011 Copa América with Uruguay. Suárez has won two European Golden Shoes,
an Eredivisie Golden Boot, a Premier League Golden Boot, and the Pichichi Trophy. He has
scored over 500 career goals for club and country.[11]

Luis Suárez

Suárez with Atlético Madrid in 2020

Personal information

Full name Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz[1]

Date of birth 24 January 1987 (age 35)[1]

Place of birth Salto, Uruguay

Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]


Position(s) Striker

Club information

Current team Atlético Madrid

Number 9

Youth career

1991–1994 Artigas de Salto

1994–2000 Urreta

2001–2005 Nacional

Senior career*

Years Team Apps (Gls)

2005–2006 Nacional 27 (10)

2006–2007 Groningen 29 (10)

2007–2011 Ajax 110 (81)

2011–2014 Liverpool 110 (69)

2014–2020 Barcelona 191 (147)

2020– Atlético Madrid 55 (29)

National team‡

2006–2007 Uruguay U20 4 (2)

2012 Uruguay U23 4 (3)


2007– Uruguay 130 (67)

Honours

Men's football

Representing Uruguay

Copa América

Winner 2011

Signature

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for


the domestic league only and correct as of 22:26,
16 February 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 01:00,
2 February 2022 (UTC)

Nicknamed El Pistolero ('The Gunman'),[12] Suárez began his senior club career
at Nacional in 2005. At age 19, he signed for Groningen, before transferring to Ajax in
2007. There, he won the KNVB Cup. In 2011, Suárez signed for Premier
League club Liverpool, and won the League Cup in his first full season. In 2014, he
equalled the goalscoring record for a 38-game Premier League season and won his
first European Golden Shoe. That summer, Suárez moved to Barcelona in a transfer worth
€82.3 million (£64.98 million), making him one of the most expensive players in football
history.[13][14]
In his first season, he won a continental treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA
Champions League with Barcelona. In his second season, Suárez won the Pichichi
Trophy and his second European Golden Shoe, becoming the first player since 2009 to
win both awards other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.[15] He also led La Liga in
assists, becoming the first player to do so in both goals and assists in league
history.[16][17] With Barcelona, he won ten additional trophies, including three La Liga
titles and three Copas del Rey. He signed for Atlético Madrid in 2020, winning his fifth La
Liga title on his debut season.[18]
At international level, Suárez is Uruguay's all-time leading goalscorer, and has
represented his nation at three editions of the FIFA World Cup and four editions of
the Copa América, as well as the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2013 FIFA
Confederations Cup.
Suárez has been a source of controversy throughout his career.[note 2] As well as his goal-
line handball against Ghana at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, he has also bitten opponents on
three occasions.[note 3] Suárez has also been accused of and admitted
to diving,[26][27] and in 2011, the FA found him guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra.[28]

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