Luis Fernando Suarez

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Luis Fernando Suárez Guzmán (born December 23, 1959 in Medellín ) is a former Colombian football player and current coach . Until November 2007 he coached the Ecuadorian national soccer team .

Suárez played in the junior teams of the Medellin football club. At the age of 21 he began his professional career with Atlético Nacional . He then played at Deportivo Pereira . There he stayed only one season, however, as it pulled him back to his hometown club in Medellín, with whom he won the 1989 Copa Libertadores . From 1978 to 1979 he was a member of the Colombian junior selection.

In 1991 he became assistant coach at Atlético Nacional. For many years, Suárez worked as an assistant coach in various clubs and in the Ecuadorian and Colombian national teams. In 1999 he returned to Atlético Nacional as head coach and won the Colombian championship title with his team. In 2001 he worked briefly at Deportivo Cali and Deportes Tolima before he went to Ecuador in 2003 and took over the SD Aucas club in Quito .

In July 2004, Suárez succeeded Hernán Darío Gómez as the national coach of Ecuador and successfully led his team through qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In the group stage of the tournament, the team finished second behind Germany and were eliminated in the round of 16 against England (0: 1). Prior to that, he had worked for the Ecuadorian national team from 1995 to 1998 as an assistant to his Colombian compatriot Francisco Maturana . At the Copa America 1997 in Bolivia, Suárez had independently led the team as an interim coach. Suárez resigned from his coaching position in November 2007 after Ecuador suffered three defeats in three preliminary round matches at the Copa America and also started qualifying for the 2010 World Cup with three defeats (a 0-1 home defeat against Venezuela, a 0-5 Defeat in Brazil and a 1: 5 defeat in Paraguay). His successor was the Ecuadorian coach Sixto Vizuete .

In May 2008, Suarez accepted an offer from the Colombian first division club Deportivo Pereira. From 2011 to 2014 he was the national coach of Honduras .

In June 2017, Suárez signed a contract with the Colombian first division club La Equidad from Bogotá .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luis Fernando Suárez, nuevo entrenador de La Equidad , accessed on June 23, 2017