Tag: Luis Suarez

• Tuesday, May 27th 2025 - 15:36 UTC

  Messi and Suárez launch new football club in Uruguay: Deportivo LSM

  

  Football legends Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez have announced the creation of their own football club in Uruguay, “Deportivo LSM,” which will compete in the country’s official league system under the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) starting in 2026.

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• Sunday, July 14th 2024 - 04:27 UTC

  Luis Suárez steers Uruguay to Copa America third place

  

  Striker Luis Suárez was man of the match Saturday at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, South Carolina, by rescuing Uruguay from a 1-2 deficit during stoppage time, thus bringing the match with Canada for the football Copa America third place to a pk decision in which he also scored the decisive shot marking the South Americans' 4-3 win.

• Thursday, July 11th 2024 - 03:09 UTC

  Colombia outpace Uruguay to reach their third Copa America final

  

  Colombia earned a most-deserved passage to Sunday's Copa America football final with defending champions Argentina by defeating Uruguay 1-0 despite being short of a man for more than half the match in Charlotte's Bank of America Stadium in South Carolina.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Uruguayan World Champs get the hero's welcome

  

  Uruguay's U-20 World Cup-winning national team was given a hero's welcome in Montevideo on Monday as the public poured into the streets to cheer their bus as it made its way through the South American country's capital along the Rambla, along Avenida 18 de Julio, on its way to the Centenario stadium.

• Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 20:37 UTC

  Luis Suárez, Uruguayan national team's all-time leading scorer, will return to play for his country's club, Nacional

  

  The player of the Uruguayan national soccer team, Luis Suárez, published a video on his social networks to give the news that fans of Nacional, one of the most important teams in the Uruguayan league, wanted the most. The 35-year-old forward announced that he has a pre-contract with the club where he was born and said that “in the next few hours details will be finalized”.

• Wednesday, August 26th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

  Barca president questioned about his management of the team

  

  The Argentine's request to leave Barca comes a day after Spanish media reported that new coach Ronald Koeman told Messi's close friend and strike partner, Luis Suarez, that he does not wish the Uruguayan to stay at the club.

• Wednesday, August 26th 2020 - 05:55 UTC

  Luis Suárez “I've spent six years at Barca - enough time for them to tell me what they think.”

  

  After six years sprinkled with goals that have brought Barcelona 13 trophies, Luis Suarez may be heading for an unceremonious exit from the Camp Nou. The Uruguayan was Barca's second-highest scorer last season behind captain Lionel Messi.

• Sunday, June 16th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Luis Suarez: “Losing the Champions League semi-final, the worst moments of my life”

  

  Uruguayan born Barcelona striker Luis Suarez said losing 4-0 to Liverpool in the Champions League semi-finals was as painful as when he was sent home from the 2014 World Cup for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini and banned from football for four months.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Uruguay players support FIFA's decision to take temporary control of AUF

  

  Several Uruguayan international players used their social media channels to share a letter in support to FIFA's decision to take temporary control of the country's soccer federation because of governance concerns. The letter, tweeted out by team stars such as Luis Suarez and Diego Godin, says it would bring “transparency, democracy and plurality” to the federation, known as the AUF.

• Sunday, July 1st 2018 - 15:34 UTC

  Uruguay sends CR7’s Portugal home by 2-1

  

  Uruguay has passed this Saturday to the quarterfinals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia after beating Portugal 2-1.