Luis Suárez (soccer player, 1987)

Luis Suarez
Luis Suárez (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz
birthday	January 24, 1987
place of birth	Salto ,  Uruguay
size	182 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1998-2005	Nacional Montevideo
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2006	Nacional Montevideo	at least 29 0(12)
2006-2007	FC Groningen	29 0(10)
2007-2011	Ajax Amsterdam	110 0(81)
2011-2014	Liverpool FC	110 0(69)
2014–	FC Barcelona	191 (147)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006-2007	Uruguay U20	6 00(2)
2012	Uruguay Olympic selection	5 00(3)
2007–	Uruguay	113 0(59)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 18, 2019

Luis Alberto "Lucho" Suárez Díaz (born January 24, 1987 in Salto ) is a Uruguayan football player . Since July 2014, the striker has been under contract with the Spanish club FC Barcelona in the Primera División . One of his nicknames is El Pistolero ("the pistol shooter") because his hand movements simulate firing a pistol when celebrating a goal. Luis Suárez is the record scorer of the Uruguayan national team and has received numerous prestigious international awards for his footballing achievements. He is the only player, alongside former Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy , to have been top scorer in three different European leagues; like van Nistelrooy, he did this in the Eredivisie , the Premier League and the Primera División, also in the same order.

Suárez is also internationally notorious for a noticeable accumulation of sometimes serious violations of the idea of ​​fair play and the rules of sporting behavior. For this, he was repeatedly given tough sanctions. After biting an opponent for the third time in his career during the World Cup in Brazil , Suárez was sentenced in June 2014 to a ban on nine compulsory international matches, a four-month ban from all football activities and a fine by the world football association FIFA .

Childhood and family

Suárez was born in the Barrio Cerro, the fourth of seven children of Rodolfo Suárez and Sandra Díaz. At the age of seven, he moved to Montevideo with his family . The family lived in poor conditions: the father, a former soldier, worked as a caretaker and left his wife and children when Luis Suárez was around nine years old. The mother then took care of her children's livelihood as a cleaner. Luis Suárez himself was also contributing to the family income as a street sweeper at that time. He started his school education at Escuela Nº 171 .

Career

Luis Suárez as a player for FC Groningen in 2006

Luis Suárez started playing football at the age of four. His father, who played as the right winger at Deportivo Artigas in Salto in the Departamento selection, had already been offered money at a very early stage by the Montevidean club Danubio to join the club; however, he refused.

society

Nacional Montevideo

In 1998 he joined the youth department of Nacional Montevideos . After he had problems keeping up with the team while playing in the Séptima , he was selected for the reserve team ( Formativas ) Nacionals by the then responsible José Luis Spósito and Wilson Pírez at the age of 14 . At the age of 16 he joined the first team. At that time he was living in the boarding house for the inland players club, which was also home to Sebastián Viera , who characterized Suárez as a very quiet player at the start of his career. After he was the top scorer in the Punta Cup in March 2005 , Suárez made his debut on May 3, 2005 in the first team of the Bolsos when he came on in the Copa Libertadores game against Colombian club Atlético Junior for Sebastián Vázquez .

At first he was a supplementary player until he fought his way into a regular place in the storm of the team. He scored his first competitive goal on September 10, 2005. In the 2005/06 season he was Uruguayan champions. In Apertura and Clausura this championship season 29 appearances and 12 goals are recorded. However, the sources are inconsistent here.

FC Groningen

In the 2006/07 season, Suárez moved to the Netherlands for FC Groningen , with a transfer fee of 800,000 euros or approximately one million US dollars, depending on the sources.

At the time of his move, he spoke neither Dutch nor English , so the changeover was difficult for him at first. About the second team of Groningen, however, he quickly integrated himself into the sport and soon became a regular player. He scored ten goals in 29 league appearances.

Ajax Amsterdam

Suárez during training at Ajax Amsterdam (2009)

After only one year in Groningen, the attacker moved to league rivals Ajax Amsterdam in August 2007 for a transfer fee of 7.5 million euros . There the Uruguayan signed a five-year contract. Suárez made his competitive debut on August 15, 2007 in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League against Slavia Prague . Shortly afterwards he made his league debut in the game against VBV De Graafschap Doetinchem and scored his first goal for Ajax in an 8-1 win. Suarez managed to assert himself at Ajax straight away and also held the position of team captain . In the 2009/10 season he scored 35 goals in 33 games for the Amsterdam club, making him top scorer in the Dutch league. Overall, Suárez scored 49 goals across all competitions this season, when Ajax won the Dutch Cup . He was also named Footballer of the Year in the Netherlands in 2010, ahead of Dries Mertens and Demy de Zeeuw , who placed second and third .

After biting an opponent in the shoulder in the league match against PSV Eindhoven, he was suspended from the Dutch association for seven competitive games in November 2010. Before the suspension expired, he moved to Liverpool. By that time, Suárez had played 159 competitive games for Ajax. His hit count amounted to a total of 111 goals.

Liverpool FC

Luis Suárez in the shirt of Liverpool (2011)

At the end of January 2011, Suárez moved to Liverpool for a transfer fee of 26.5 million euros , where he signed a five and a half year contract. He made his debut for Liverpool on February 2, 2011; He scored his first goal 16 minutes after coming on as a substitute.

He was among the top ten most popular football players in the UK in 2012 based on the share of football shirts sold.

In the first two and a half seasons he made 77 appearances in the Premier League for Liverpool. He scored 38 hits. On December 20, 2013 it was announced that Suárez had extended his contract with the Liverpoolers until the end of the 2017/18 season.

In the 2013/14 season, in which he served the suspension from the assault against Ivanović in the first five games, he came to the train in 33 other league games and scored 31 goals. He finished second in the table with Liverpool at the end of the season and thus became English runner-up. On a personal level, with 31 goals scored, he secured the title of Premier League top scorer by a clear margin over teammate Daniel Sturridge (22 goals). In that season, Suárez also set several records. On December 4, 2013, he scored four goals in his team's 5-1 win over Norwich City . As the first player in the history of the Premier League, he managed to score three goals in one game against the same club for the third time. With his goal double on December 21, 2013, he was also the first player in England's league history to score two or more goals in four consecutive games, having scored four goals in previous league matches and two goals each time .

FC Barcelona

Luis Suárez in the FC Barcelona jersey (2014)

At the beginning of July 2014, Liverpool FC negotiated with FC Barcelona about a possible transfer of Suárez for the 2014/15 season. Spanish and British media unanimously reported that FC Barcelona was ready for a transfer Suárez ' to pay the minimum transfer fee of 81.25 million euros set in a release clause in the current player's contract , making him one of the most expensive players in the world . To make the move possible, Suarez reportedly agreed to accept a lower annual salary than the estimated € 12 million net he earned in Liverpool. On July 11, 2014, the transfer was officially confirmed. He made his debut in the Primera División on October 25, 2014 , when he started in the 3-1 defeat by Real Madrid and set up the only goal for Barcelona. Overall, he contributed in the 2014/15 season with 16 goals in 27 contested league games to win the Spanish championship. He also won the 2014/15 Copa del Rey with FC Barcelona . He also played in ten games (seven goals) in the 2014/15 Champions League , which his club then won. In the 2015/16 season he was used 35 times (40 goals) in the top Spanish league and nine times (eight goals) in the Champions League. He defended the championship title and the Copa del Rey with the team. In the 2016/17 season he was used 35 times (29 goals) in the Primera División and nine times (three goals) in the Champions League.

In December 2016, according to his club, Suárez extended his contract with FC Barcelona until June 30, 2021. A clause in the contract stipulated that he could only leave the club on payment of a transfer fee of 200 million euros before the contract expired.

National team

Suárez already played in the Uruguayan U20 national team . He missed the U20 South American Championship in Paraguay in 2007 because, despite the intervention of the AUF at FIFA, he was not given approval by his employer FC Groningen. But he took part in the U20 World Cup in 2007 with the U20s, together with his later senior national team mates Edinson Cavani and Martín Cáceres . On February 7, 2007 Suarez then completed his first game with the Uruguayan senior team . In the game against Colombia , he saw the yellow-red card in the 85th minute. In the 5-0 win against Bolivia on October 13, 2007, the striker scored his first goal for the Uruguayan selection. In the following years he developed alongside Diego Forláns and Diego Luganos to become one of the top performers at Celeste.

In the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he was part of the Uruguayan squad and contributed during the tournament wear the number 9. He contributed to the semi-finals of Uruguay, the surprise team of the tournament, among other things in that he in the quarterfinals at the score of 1: 1 on goal is Ghana on the line of the Uruguayan goal in the last minute of extra time with his hand, for which he was sent off with a red card and Ghana received a penalty . However, Ghanaian Asamoah Gyan only hit the bar. Uruguay then won on penalties and advanced to the semi-finals, in which the team narrowly missed the World Cup final with 2: 3 against the Netherlands . Suárez himself was automatically banned from the game after being sent off. In the game for third place, which Uruguay again narrowly lost 3-2, he was used again against Germany.

Suárez with the award as the best player of the Copa América 2011

The 2011 Copa América in Argentina was very successful for Suárez : He scored his first goal in this tournament in his team's first group game, a 1-1 draw against Peru . The quarter-finals against the big favorites Argentina ended after extra time with 1: 1; in the subsequent penalty shoot-out, which Uruguay won, Suárez converted his penalty. In Uruguay's 2-0 victory in the semi-finals - again against Peru - Suárez scored both goals and led his team into the final of the Copa America for the first time in 12 years. In the final against Paraguay , which his team won 3-0, he took the lead in the 11th minute and provided Diego Forlán with the template to make it 3-0. Suarez was voted the tournament's best player for his achievements. He was also the second top scorer with four goals behind Paolo Guerrero , who had scored one more goal.

Qualifying for the 2014 World Cup brought another high point in Suárez's career when he became the first Uruguayan to score four goals in a World Cup qualifier against Chile on November 11, 2011. Javier Ambrois had last scored such a number of goals in one encounter in the history of the Celeste in March 1957 against Ecuador.

In 2012, Suárez was named as one of three senior players in the Uruguayan squad for the Olympic football tournament in London and was captain of the team. The U23 of Uruguay lost a game at the Olympic Games for the first time in the 2-0 draw against Senegal - but had not participated since 1928 - and was eliminated as third in the group after the preliminary round.

Since September 6, 2013 Suárez has been the sole record scorer in Uruguay ahead of Diego Forlán, with whom he had to share this honor several times. In the qualification of the South American group for the 2014 World Cup, Suárez was the most successful goalscorer with eleven goals ahead of second-placed Lionel Messi (10 goals). Nevertheless, Uruguay only reached fifth place in the South American group and only qualified in an intercontinental play-off against Jordan , with Suárez remaining goalless in the two games (5-0, 0-0).

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , Suárez was again part of the Uruguayan squad. After a 1: 3 opening defeat against Costa Rica , Suárez kept his team in the tournament with two goals in the subsequent 2: 1 against England . Luis Suárez was suspended from FIFA for nine games and four months for his shoulder bite in the third World Cup preliminary round match against Italy on June 24, 2014 against Italian Giorgio Chiellini, whom referee Marco Antonio Rodríguez Moreno had not seen. Uruguay won the game 1-0 and then lost 2-0 in the round of 16 against Colombia without Suárez .

For the 2018 World Cup , he was again included in the Uruguayan squad . In the second and third group matches, against Saudi Arabia and Russia, he scored once and also played his 100th international match against the former opponents. In total, up to his last appearance on November 18, 2019, he has played 113 international matches, in which he scored 59 goals.

Controversies about grossly unsportsmanlike conduct

2003: Assault on a referee

As a 16-year-old youth player for Nacional Montevideo, Suárez attacked referee Luis Larrañaga in November 2003 with a headbutt that caused a badly bleeding injury. Larrañaga had sent Suárez immediately before in the penultimate game of the season for protesting after a yellow card for foul play, which means that striker Suárez was also excluded from the decisive final game for the championship. Because of his headbutt, he was suspended from the association for eleven games.

2007: Fight with fellow player Albert Luque

In November 2007, during a league match for his new club Ajax Amsterdam, a disagreement with Suarez's team-mate Albert Luque escalated into a half-time brawl in which the two had to be separated from teammates and taken off the pitch by the coach for the rest of the game. Due to the prematurely exhausted substitution contingent, the team had to play ten of the last 20 minutes of the game after an injury to a teammate. Both Luque and Suarez have been fined by Ajax.

2010: Goal prevention through deliberate handball in the World Cup quarter-finals

At the Soccer World Cup in South Africa in July 2010, Suárez prevented the extension of Uruguay's quarter-final against Ghana from a goal with a deliberate two-handed handball on the goal line and was then sent off. The subsequent hand penalty for Ghana for the possible winning goal to 2-1 was missed and Uruguay prevailed in the following penalty shoot-out with 4-2. Suárez missed the later semi-finals against the Netherlands due to the suspension associated with the dismissal. Suárez did not leave the interior immediately, as is usual with red cards, but watched the execution of the penalty shot from the sideline and cheered the missed shot. He later described his handball on the goal line as "the best goalkeeper parade of the World Cup".

2010: biting an opponent

At the game of the Dutch Eredivisie in November 2010 between Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven, Suárez bit his opponent Otman Bakkal in the front right shoulder after a verbal argument during a break in the game. The referee had not seen the incident, but the Dutch Football Association imposed a seven-game ban on Suárez based on the television images. When assessing the penalty, the officials also took into account the player's previous behavior. In the opening game of the season four months earlier, Suárez had received a dismissal for gross foul play, which resulted in a three-game suspension, from which one game was suspended. Suárez had already gained an inglorious reputation during his years in the Netherlands due to frequent "swallows" and discussions with referees and the resulting warnings. Both in Groningen and Amsterdam, the club officials had tried to reduce the frequency of his unsportsmanlike behavior, which often harmed his own team.

2011: Racial abuse against Patrice Evra

On December 20, 2011, Suarez was banned from eight games and fined £ 40,000 in an internationally acclaimed dispute over racist remarks against Patrice Evra . After a detailed investigation of the allegations raised by Evra, the English association saw it as proven that Suárez had addressed his opponent several times in a football match between Liverpool FC and Manchester United with derogatory and provocative intent about his skin color, and assessed them Suárez's presentation of the incidents and, above all, the exchange of words on the pitch, put forward in his defense, as implausible in numerous key points. With broad support, especially from his club and from his Uruguayan homeland, Suárez had presented himself in the course of the controversy, above all, as a victim of false accusations of Evra and a culturally determined misinterpretation of the Spanish word "negro", which he did not disparage the dark-skinned Evra several times, but rather in I wanted to have used the opposite only once and even with a conciliatory and amicable intention.

The scandal found an unexpected continuation when Suarez demonstratively refused to shake hands with Evra on February 11, 2012 at the next meeting of the two clubs after his suspension had expired. In an extensive interview with the Russian foreign television broadcaster Russia Today in May 2012, Suárez retrospectively described his punishment by the FA as "strange and unbelievable" for having been "banned without any evidence". He presented himself as a victim of a conspiracy: The association had obviously had to try to pull a Liverpool player out of circulation, because his suspension fit well.

2013: Another bite of an opponent

In April 2013, Suárez was suspended for ten games after - like two and a half years earlier - he had bitten an opponent, this time Branislav Ivanović in a league game against Chelsea . The then British Prime Minister David Cameron also commented on Suárez's assault between the news of the incident, which went unnoticed by the referee team, and the imposition of the penalty by the English Football Association . Referring to the role model function of soccer stars, Cameron let explain through his spokesman that he thought a particularly harsh punishment would be appropriate.

2014: Biting at the World Cup

On June 24, 2014, Suárez bit his opponent Giorgio Chiellini off the ball from behind in the shoulder in the last round of the 2014 World Cup against Italy . After Chiellini hit back with his left elbow and collapsed, Suárez also dropped onto the lawn and held his upper jaw, his face contorted with pain. In an interview after the game, Suárez claimed that Chiellini hit him with the shoulder and injured his eye. Such things that happen all the time in the penalty area shouldn't be given great importance. Since the referee had not seen the action, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee took action on the basis of the television images and examined the written statements submitted by the parties involved on the incident.

As a sanction, Suárez was banned from all football-related activities for four months, including a worldwide stadium ban and an additional ban for nine official international matches and a fine of 100,000 Swiss francs. In addition, his World Cup accreditation was withdrawn and contact with the national team was prohibited. Referring to the as yet unpublished report by the Disciplinary Committee, Reuters reported that the independent FIFA committee had assessed Suarez's lack of insight into the irregularity of his actions as aggravating the penalty. A suspension of six games, such as the minimal punishment for spitting at the opponent, was found to be insufficient, especially since the previous two suspensions for deliberate biting had not resulted in a cessation of this unacceptable behavior. Since the exclusion took effect immediately after notification, Suárez had to leave the Uruguayan World Cup squad immediately and traveled to his home country, where he was expected to receive support from crowds including President José Mujica .

The FIFA sanctions triggered a wide variety of reactions. You have been criticized as excessive by Diego Maradona , among others . He insulted the international soccer idols Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer as "two idiots" because they had rated the FIFA measure positively. The affected opponent Chiellini also described the sentence as excessive. The international players 'union FIFPro saw this as a direct violation of workers' rights. National coach Óscar Tabárez , who generally considered a sanction to be justified, criticized its extent and the way Suárez was treated. Ex-national coach Jorge Fossati expressed concern that the problem was not the suspension, but the fact that Suárez would be treated like a criminal for a mistake in a football game. From his Uruguayan homeland, Suárez received support from the Uruguayan President José Mujica. The legislature in Uruguay also took a stand on the incident. The regional parliament, Junta Departamental de Montevideo , passed a resolution at its session on June 26, 2014, in which it expressed its solidarity with Suárez. The most prominent critical voice of Suárez in Uruguay was that of the last surviving Uruguayan world champion from 1950 Alcides Ghiggia , who also renewed his criticism around a month after the incident.

Several prominent defenders of Suárez 'against the criticism of his bite saw him or the country of Uruguay as victims of various conspiracies. Before the sanction was announced, President Mujica spoke of a character assassination campaign against Suárez and said he had not seen Suárez bite anyone. He later described the punishment as an "eternal shame" for FIFA and "one of the darkest moments in the history of world football". It is a "monstrous aggression" not just against one player, but against an entire country. Uruguay is punished more severely than other countries because it is a "tiny nation" and for FIFA, which is guided by commercial interests, of no weight. Diego Maradona said the sanction was a punishment by FIFA against seven Uruguayan football clubs that had asked the continental association CONMEBOL for a higher share in television revenues. Suárez's lawyer, the board member of the Uruguayan Football Association Alejandro Balbi, said the investigation into the player was undoubtedly due to the fact that England and Italy were knocked out of the World Cup by Uruguay. There is also an interest in weakening Uruguay as a possible future opponent of hosts Brazil, which is why they wanted to eliminate Suárez. The national coach Óscar Tabárez made a similar statement, accusing the international press of exaggerating the case and resigning from the FIFA strategy committee in protest of the “abuse of power” by the disciplinary committee. Team captain Lugano initially denied that there had been a significant incident in the game, described Chiellini as a "crybaby" and accused the English media of a targeted campaign against Suarez. This is made a victim because he comes from Uruguay, a third world country that has no voice in FIFA. He described the sanction as "barbarism" and "human rights violation."

Several commentators, particularly from Europe, saw Suárez's failures as indications of a mental disorder that needed therapy. For example, FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke Suárez urged him to seek professional help and undergo treatment. Suárez's former Ajax coach Frank de Boer also emphasized the psychological aspect of Suárez's abnormal behavior and suggested that Suárez's bite attacks in stressful situations were due to childhood experiences. Gordon Taylor, executive director of the English players' union PFA, which had already offered Suárez professional help in dealing with emotional distress after his bite against Ivanović, said in agreement with FIFPro that the FIFA sanction should have been combined with mandatory psychological counseling and therapy for Suárez .

On June 30, 2014, Suárez finally published a written statement in which he did not admit deliberate biting, but only a collision, in which, however, his opponent was harmed by him: “The truth is that my colleague Chiellini in his collision suffered the physical result of a bite with me. "He expressed his regret over what had happened, apologized to Chiellini and" the entire football family "and promised that he would never be involved in such an incident again.

On July 3, 2014, FIFA confirmed receipt of the Uruguayan Football Association's objection to the sanction. A week later, the FIFA Appeals Committee dismissed the appeal and upheld the Disciplinary Committee's decision on all points.

After the suspension, the Kosovar club KF Hajvalia had expressed its interest in Suarez and offered its former club FC Liverpool 30,000 euros transfer for a four-month loan during its suspension and Suarez a monthly salary of around 1500 euros, the club justified this by saying that Kosovo is not a recognized country of FIFA and the Kosovar Football Association is therefore not a FIFA member either, and Suarez can play there despite being suspended. FIFA then made it clear that Suárez would not be allowed to play in Kosovo either. If he were to move to Kosovo and be deployed there, which would violate the ban, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee would initiate a new investigation, which could result in a tightening of the current ban.

The suspension was reduced to competitive games in mid-August by the CAS , which was called by Suárez, FC Barcelona and the Uruguayan Football Association, so that he could be used in friendly matches. From October 25, 2014, Suárez was again eligible to play.

titles and achievements

Luis Suárez (left) together with Diego Forlán during the 2010 World Cup

National team

• Copa America : 2011

Nacional Montevideo (2005-2006)

• Uruguayan champions: 2005/06

Ajax Amsterdam (2007-2011)

• Johan Cruyff bowl : 2007 (without insert)
• Dutch Cup Winner : 2009/10

Liverpool FC (2011-2014)

• League Cup : 2012

FC Barcelona (since 2014)

• FIFA Club World Cup : 2015
• UEFA Champions League : 2015
• Spanish champion : 2015 , 2016 , 2018 , 2019
• Spanish Cup Winner : 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018
• UEFA Super Cup : 2015
• Spanish Supercup  : 2016

Personal honors

• Top scorer
  • of the Dutch honor division : 2009/10
  • of the English Premier League : 2013/14
  • of the FIFA Club World Cup : 2015
  • of the Spanish Primera División : 2015/16
  • the qualification for the Football World Cup (CONMEBOL): 2014
  • UEFA Golden Shoe : 2014, 2016
• Best player
  • of the Copa América : 2011
  • of the FIFA Club World Cup : 2015
• Netherlands Footballer of the Year : 2010
• Premier League Player of the Season : 2014
• Premier League Player of the Month : 12/2013, 3/2014
• Footballer of the Year in the Premier League 2013 (awarded by Football Supporters Federation )
• Player of the Year in England 2013/14 (awarded by the Players Union)
• Footballer of the Year 2014 (awarded by the English Football Writers' Association in May 2014)
• FIFA / FIFPro World XI : 2016

Private

In March 2009, Suarez officially married his long-time girlfriend Sofía Balbi in Amsterdam. The church wedding later took place in Uruguay. The couple had been dating in Montevideo since 2002. Sofía, who was two years younger than him, was then 13 years old. At the age of 16, Sofía moved in with him in Groningen. The relationship with Balbi, whose parents emigrated with her from Uruguay to Barcelona in October 2003, was a major motivating factor for Suárez, who, after the spatial separation, set himself the goal of following his girlfriend to Europe as a professional footballer.

Since August 2010 Suárez has been the father of a daughter named Delfina, who was born in Barcelona. He is also the father of a son named Benjamin, who was born in England. He has a tattoo on his right wrist with his daughter's name, which kisses after every goal he has scored as part of a goal celebration that is typical for him. Parts of Liverpool's supporters derived from the fact that the tattoo is an anagram from Anfield , also a reference to his former employer. However, Suárez made it clear that this was a coincidence, pointing out that his daughter was born before he moved to Liverpool.

His older brother Paolo Suárez is also a professional footballer, is a striker with AD Isidro Metapán in El Salvador and acquired Salvadoran citizenship in November 2011 at the instigation of the national football association. However, due to current FIFA rules, he has not yet been nominated for an international match. His brother Maximiliano Suárez also works as a football player in El Salvador. The youngest of the four brothers, Diego Suárez , was last in the squad of the Uruguayan first division club Miramar Misiones in 2014 . Pere Guardiola, the brother of Pep Guardiola , acts as advisor to Luis Suárez .

Trivia

Suárez's attack on a referee in 2003 was followed by a spectacular criminal case, in which Suárez himself was no longer involved: Suárez's assault was followed by attempted coercion by Nelson Spillman, the youth football official in the Uruguayan Football Association who was the referee Luis Larrañaga wanted to remove the incident from the score sheet in order to protect the youngster of his favorite club. A few days after the sports journalist Ricardo Gabito publicized Larrañaga's internal protest against Spillman, Gabito was supposed to be killed on behalf of the functionary, but was only shot, for which later Spillman, his brother and the designated shooter were sentenced to prison terms.

After the bite against Chiellini during the 2014 World Cup, the Associated Press reported that, according to a Swedish betting company, around 150 people across Europe had bet that Suárez would bite someone during the tournament. The highest profit was achieved by a Norwegian with around 3,000 dollars in weather revenue.

After the bite attack on his opponent, Suárez was given various synonyms in the media. These included names such as Caníbal (cannibal), Vampiro (vampire), zombie , pit bull , Mike Tyson or Tiburón (shark). In the German-speaking press he was called, among other things, " Beißer " - based on the criminal embodied by Richard Kiel in James Bond films. In the Erlangen area, a snapping turtle was named after him in the media , which lived in the area of ​​the Dechsendorfer Weiher from 2014 to 2016 .

Web links

Commons : Luis Suárez  - Collection of Images

• Luis Suárez official homepage (Spanish)
• Luis Suárez in the database of weltfussball.de
• Luis Suárez in the soccerbase.com database
• Luis Suárez in the database of the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (Spanish)
• Wright Thompson: Portrait of a serial winner, detailed background report in: ESPN .com from May 27, 2014 (English), (central research results of the report are cited in the German-language article A look into the psyche of the football vampire, in: Tages-Anzeiger from June 26, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Lucho" Suárez llegó a Uruguay tras el fallo de Fifa, ( Memento of July 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in: Cadena 3 of June 27, 2014, accessed on June 30, 2014 (Spanish)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Profile on playerhistory.com ( Memento from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 15, 2012
3. ↑ Drama at the 2014 World Cup: 2: 1 - Pistolero Suarez almost saves Uruguay, England, in: Focus Online from June 19, 2014, accessed on June 30, 2014
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Wright Thompson: Portrait of a serial winner, in: ESPN .com from May 27, 2014 (English)
5. ↑ ^{a b} FIFA: Luis Suárez suspended for nine games and banned from all football activities for four months, report on the FIFA website of June 26, 2014
6. ↑ Family worried, confused by Luis Suarez's 'explosive outbursts' ( Memento from June 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on thenational.ae ( Agence France-Presse ) from June 26, 2014, accessed on June 29, 2014
7. ↑ El motivo real por el que Luis Suárez quiere jugar en el Barça, in: El Mundo from June 27, 2014, accessed on June 29, 2014 (Spanish)
8. ↑ HECHOS Y NUMEROS (Spanish) on puntacup.com, accessed on May 4, 2013
9. ↑ Luis Suárez comenzó a morder la gloria en Barranquilla (Spanish) on eltiempo.com from April 25, 2013, accessed on May 2, 2013
10. ↑ ^{a b} Profile on fichajes.com , accessed December 15, 2012
11. ↑ ESPN only carries out ten goalless missions for him, which should mean the mid-season 2005 , accessed on December 15, 2012
12. ↑ during rsssf 13 hits for the 2005/06 season leads to rsssf.com, accessed on December 15, 2012
13. ↑ ^{a b} biography on ESPN (Spanish), accessed May 2, 2013
14. ↑ Information on luissuarez.co.uk ( Memento from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on May 2, 2013
15. ↑ List of goalscorers on eredivisielive.nl , accessed on December 15, 2012
16. ↑ ESPN has 34 league games and 13 league goals (plus two UEFA Cup appearances / one goal), fichajes.com has 29 league games and 13 goals
17. ^ Ajax signed Suárez on August 10, 2007 on transfermarkt.de
18. ↑ El Ajax ficha a Luis Suárez (Spanish; PDF; 437 kB) in Mundo Deportivo from August 10, 2007, accessed on May 3, 2013
19. ↑ Match statistics Ajax Amsterdam - Slavia Prague 0: 1 (0: 0) from August 15, 2007 on fussballdaten.de
20. ↑ Luis Suárez, Futbolista del Año en Holanda (Spanish) in As of August 31, 2010, accessed May 3, 2013
21. ↑ table football
22. ↑ Suarez swaps Ajax for Liverpool ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English) from January 28, 2011, accessed on May 3, 2013
23. ↑ Suarez verruilt Ajax voor Liverpool ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) from January 28 on ajax.nl
24. ↑ Sports File: Top 10: The Ten Best-Selling Premier League Jerseys , March 14, 2013
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