Shaken by great emotions, Uruguay star Luis Suárez announces his retirement from the national team. The former World Cup biter rules out one thing for his future.
One more game and Uruguay’s football legend Luis Suárez will be putting an end to his international career. The 37-year-old tearfully announced his departure from the Celeste on Monday (local time), for whom he will play his 143rd international match on Friday in the World Cup qualifier against Paraguay in Montevideo.
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“It’s hard for me to say, but it will be my last game with my country’s Seleccion. I’ve thought about it for a long time, and now is the right time,” said “El Pistolero” announcing his decision. “I’ve given everything for the national team. But I’m 37 years old and the next World Cup is still a long way off.”
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Since 2007, the striker, who still plays for the US club Inter Miami alongside Lionel Messi, has scored 69 goals, making him the national team’s record goalscorer, with whom he celebrated his greatest success at the 2011 Copa America triumph.
But Suárez also made headlines with unsportsmanlike conduct. At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, for example, he bit Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder and received a four-month ban.
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Suárez as a biter at the 2014 World Cup
Another scandal: In the 2010 World Cup quarter-final against Ghana, Suárez saved the ball with his hand on the line in the last minute of extra time and was given a red card for it. However, the Africans missed the penalty – Uruguay went through and celebrated Suárez as a hero.
Suárez has been suffering from knee problems for some time, which is why he was only a reserve at the recent Copa América behind the new star striker Darwin Nunez (Liverpool FC). However, his final retirement at Inter Miami will take some time.
“I’m going to continue to enjoy football for a while,” said Suárez, who ruled out a career as a coach (“I don’t want to, I won’t”). Suárez also attracted attention in the national team jersey with fourth place at the 2010 World Cup, and at club level as a goalscorer in the Netherlands (Ajax Amsterdam), England (FC Liverpool) and Spain (FC Barcelona).
With Sports Information Service (SID)
