Full name Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz Date of birth 24 January 1987 (age 26) Place of birth Salto, Uruguay Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] Playing position Forward Club information Current club Liverpool Number 7 Youth career 2003–2005 Nacional Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 2005–2006 Nacional 27 (10) 2006–2007 Groningen 29 (10) 2007–2011 Ajax 110 (81) 2011– Liverpool 83 (46) National team‡ 2007 Uruguay U20 4 (2) 2012 Uruguay U23 4 (3) 2007– Uruguay 71 (38) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 November 2013. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 6 September 2013 Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis ˈswaɾes]; born 24 January 1987) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Premier League club Liverpool and the Uruguayan national team. At age of 19 Suárez moved to the Netherlands to play for Groningen in the Eredivisie. Suárez transferred to Ajax in 2007. In 2008–09 he was named club Player of the Year. The following year he was named the club captain, led the Eredivisie in scoring with 35 goals in 33 games and was named Dutch Footballer of the Year . He scored 49 goals in all competitions and Ajax won the KNVB Cup. In the 2010– 11 season he scored his one hundredth Ajax goal and joined an elite group of players from the club, including Johan Cruyff, Marco van Basten and Dennis Bergkamp, to do so. In January 2011, Suárez transferred to Liverpool for €26.5 million ( £22.8 million). During his partial season at Liverpool, Suárez helped the club move from twelfth in the league in mid-January to finish sixth. In February 2012 Suárez won his first trophy with Liverpool, as they won the Football League Cup. On 26 October 2013 he scored his fourth Premiership hat- trick for the club, making him the most frequent scorer of hat-tricks in Premier League history (one every 20.3 games). Suárez represented Uruguay in the 2007 U-20 World Cup. In the 2010 World Cup he played an important role in Uruguays fourth place finish and scored three goals, including when he infamously blocked an extra time goalbound header with his hands during the quarter finals against Ghana. At the 2011 Copa América Suárez scored four goals for Uruguay as they won a record fifteenth Copa América and was named Player of the Tournament. [2] On 23 June 2013, Suarez became Uruguays all-time record goalscorer with 35 goals. Club career Nacional Suárez playing for Nacional. Suárez joined local side Nacionals youth team at the age of 14.[3] At the age of 15, Suárez was red carded for headbutting a referee.[4] One night he was caught drinking and partying, and his coach threatened Suárez would never play unless he started playing football more seriously.[3][5] In May 2005, at age 18, he made his first team debut against Junior de Barranquilla in the Copa Libertadores.[3] He scored his first goal in September 2005[6] and helped Nacional win the 2005–06 Uruguayan league with 10 goals in 27 games. [7] Suárez was found by a group of scouts from the Dutch club Groningen when they were in Uruguay to watch another player. As they watched, he won and converted a penalty and scored a wonder goal[8] against Defensor. After watching only that game, the scouts approached Suárez and said they wanted to buy him;[8] after the season, Groningen paid Nacional €800,000 for him. [3] Suárez was thrilled to go to Europe because his girlfriend, and current wife, Sofia Balbi, had moved to Barcelona; they had maintained a long-distance relationship for a year and he wanted to move closer to her.[6]
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