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Luis Suárez
Personal information
Full name Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Liverpool Fc
Number 7
Youth career
2003–2006 Nacional
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2006 Nacional 27 (10)
2006–2007 Groningen 29 (11)
2007–2011 Ajax (81)
2011- present caps3 = 108 Liverpool Fc
International career‡
2007– present Uruguay[2] 38 (16)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 November 2010
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 October 2010

Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz (born 24 January 1987 in Salto) is a Uruguayan footballer who formerly plays as a striker Ajax. Since 2007, Suárez has also played for the Uruguayan national team.

Having grown up in Salto alongside six siblings, with a single mother.[3] In 2005, he began professional career at Montevideo side Nacional. His older brother Paolo Suárez is also a professional football player.

He moved to the Netherlands with Eredivisie side Groningen in 2006 at the age of 19, before transferring to Ajax in 2007. He made a major impact at the Amsterdam club as a supporting striker with the main striker initially being Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, then Marko Pantelić, and later Mounir El Hamdaoui. Following the arrival of manager Martin Jol at Ajax in 2009, Suárez was made the club captain following the departure of Thomas Vermaelen to Arsenal.

In 2010, Suárez was named Dutch Footballer of the Year, having ended the season as top scorer in the Eredivisie with 35 goals in 33 league matches (49 goals in all competitions). On 5 August 2010, Suárez became a father, with his wife bearing a baby daughter named Delfina in Barcelona.[4] Also in 2010, Suárez became a member of the select group of players having scored more than 100 goals for Ajax in competitive matches, joining players like Johan Cruyff, Marco van Basten, and Dennis Bergkamp.[5]

Club career

Early career

In england, Suárez played for liverpool fc During his time with the english club under the management of juande ramos, he won the national ear eating championship, with his mum in 2006, eating 12 ears in 29 seconds.

Groningen

Suárez with Groningen

After that successful season, Groningen purchased him for approximately € 800,000. During his first season in Europe, Suárez performed well at Groningen, scoring 10 goals in 29 appearances.[6] His impressive play attracted the attention of other European clubs and, following the season, he was sold to Ajax for €7.5 million on 9 August 2007.[7]

Ajax

The transfer initially seemed doomed when Suárez lost his case before the Dutch Football Association's arbitration committee.[8] That same day, however, Ajax informed Groningen that they would be willing to pay more for him.[8] Without Suárez in the line-up, Ajax won the Johan Cruijff Shield prior to the start of the 2007–08 season.[9]

Suárez made his official debut for the team in the Champions League qualifier against Slavia Prague.[10] In the match he won a penalty kick for Ajax, though it was missed by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. In his Eredivisie debut for the club, he scored one goal, made three assists and won another fantasticc penalty, helping Ajax beat newly promoted De Graafschap 8–1.[11] In his home debut at the Amsterdam Arena, he scored another two goals against Heerenveen to continue the excellent start to his Ajax career.[12] He then scored a hat-trick for the club in the league match against Willem II, to take his tally for Ajax to 14 goals in 27 appearances.[13][14] He ended his first season with Ajax with 20 goals in 40 appearances.[15]

Suárez (with the Ajax flag) as Ajax skipper in 2010.

Suárez received a lot of negative attention in the 2008–09 season, due to the high number of yellow cards he received.[16] He was given a seventh yellow card against Utrecht in a 2–0 win for Ajax, which earned him a suspension against Den Haag.[17] He ended the 2008–09 season with 22 goals from 31 games in the league,[6] finishing second in the top-scorers table, a goal behind Mounir El Hamdaoui of AZ.[18]

In the 2009–10 season Suárez scored his first league goals in the second match against RKC Waalwijk on 8 August 2009, scoring a hat-trick in a 4–1 victory, with the second goal being a 25-meter scorcher.[19] He added more goals by scoring two goals against arch-rivals PSV Eindhoven, despite finishing on the losing side as Ajax were defeated 4–3.[20] In the play-off round first-leg of the newly-incepted UEFA Europa League, Suárez netted four goals in a 5–0 win over Slovan Bratislava on 20 August 2009.[21] A month later, on 20 September 2009, Suárez scored four goals in a 4–0 win against VVV, taking his tally this season to 10 goals in seven league games.[22] He scored one goal and missed two penalties as Ajax beat Timişoara 2–1 to reach the knockout stage of the Europa League.[23] On 23 December 2009, he scored six goals in a single match against the amateur team of WHC in the Dutch cup helping Ajax to win by a record margin of 14–1.[24] On 11 April 2010, Suárez scored three goals during the first half as VVV this time were defeated 7–0. Suárez ended the 2009–10 season as top scorer in the league with 35 goals (49 goals in all competitions) and was named Dutch Footballer of the Year.[25]

At the start of the 2010–11 season, Suárez scored his 100th goal for Ajax, in a 1-1 home draw against PAOK in the Champions League third qualifying round.[5] On 29 August 2010, Suárez scored a hat trick against De Graafschap in a 0-5 away win.[26] In November 2010, Ajax suspended Suárez for two league matches after he bit PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal on the shoulder during their 0-0 draw on 20 November 2010. He was also fined an undisclosed amount which the club said they would donate to a "good cause". The Dutch daily newspaper De Telegraaf branded Suarez the “Cannibal of Ajax”.[27] The KNVB penalized Suárez with a suspension for seven league matches.

International career

Suárez (left) with Diego Forlán at the 2010 World Cup

Suárez made his debut for the Uruguay on 8 February 2007, in a 3–1 win against Colombia. He was [[Miscond/players/player=270775/mainstatistics.html |title=2010 FIFA World Cup - Luis SUAREZ - Statistics |publisher=FIFA.com |date=11 July 2010|accessdate= 17 November 2010}}</ref> At the World Cup, Suárez was an integral part of the Uruguayan team that reached the semi-final, forming a formidable partnership with Diego Forlán, scoring three goals, before eventually losing to the Netherlands (Suárez was suspended for the semi-final against Holland). He gained worldwide notoriety during the quarter final match against Ghana, where he handled the ball on the line in the last minute of extra-time, as well celebrating Asamoah Gyan's subsequent penalty miss, which put the match to penalty kicks, leading to Ghana's elimination from the tournament.[28]

International goals

As of 8 October 2010[29]

Personal life

Suárez with Ajax in 2010

Suárez grew up alongside six siblings, with a single mother. He married his childhood girlfriend, Sofia Balbi, in 2009, and they had their first daughter, Delfina, on 5 August.[3] His older brother Paolo Suárez is also a professional football player.

Career statistics

As of 05 December 2010[30][31][32]
Club Season League Cup Europe Other[33] Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Nacional 2005–06 27 10 — — 4 2 31 12
Total 27 10 — — 4 2 31 12
Groningen 2006–07 29 10 4 3 2 1 2 3 37 17
Total 29 10 4 3 2 1 2 3 37 17
Ajax 2007–08 33 17 4 2 4 1 3 2 44 22
2008–09 31 22 2 1 10 5 0 0 43 28
2009–10 33 35 6 8 9 6 0 0 48 49
2010–11 13 7 1 1 8 5 1 0 23 13
Total 108 81 12 11 30 16 4 2 154 110
Career total 164 101 17 15 32 17 10 7 222 139

Honours

Suárez won the Dutch Golden Shoe in 2010.

Club

Nacional
Ajax

Individual

References

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  2. ^ "Ficha de jugador del selección: Luis Suárez". Tenfield. Retrieved 11 May 2009. [dead link]
  3. ^ a b Ben Lyttleton: In Suarez's absence Uruguay will lean even more heavily on Forlan Sports Illustrated, 4 July 2010
  4. ^ "Suarez in Barcelona vader geworden van dochter" (in Dutch). Voetbal International. 5 August 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Suarez veertiende Ajacied met minimaal honderd goals". Voetbal International. 28 July 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
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  8. ^ a b "Ajax made to pay for Suárez". UEFA. Retrieved 13 April 2010.[dead link]
  9. ^ "Ajax wint opnieuw Johan Cruijff Schaal (in Dutch)". de Gelderlander. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  10. ^ "Gunners boss finds lethal weapon". The Standard. 31 August 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  11. ^ "Huntelaar nets four as Ajax pound De Graafschap: 1-8". Ajax USA. 19 August 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
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  14. ^ "Suarez hat-trick leads Ajax comeback against Willem II". Ajax USA. 16 March 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
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  17. ^ Ajax wint bekerduel van FC Utrecht: 2-0 (in Dutch)[dead link]
  18. ^ Netherlands (23 May 2009). "Special: Eredivisie Team Of The Season 2008-09". Goal.com. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  19. ^ "Ajax beats RKC Waalwijk 4-1 in Dutch league". Etaiwan News. 9 August 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2010.[dead link]
  20. ^ "Psv Beat Ajax In Seven-Goal Thriller". Sporting Life. 15 August 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  21. ^ Europa League (20 August 2009). "Ajax 5–0 Slovan Bratislava: Superb Suarez Scores Four To Down Brave Slovakians". Goal.com. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  22. ^ Reuters (20 September 2009). "Eredivisie: Suarez bags four as Ajax thrash VVV". ESPN Soccernet. Retrieved 13 April 2010. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
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  28. ^ MacSwan, Angus (3 July 2010). "I had no choice but to handle says Uruguay's Suarez". Reuters. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
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  32. ^ "Luis Suárez Statistics". Transfermark. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  33. ^ Includes other competitive competitions, including the Johan Cruijff Shield and the Playoffs
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