Luis Suárez is a striker who plays for English side Liverpool and the Uruguayan national team.
Suárez arrived at Liverpool in the turmoils of Fernando Torres leaving the club for Chelsea. Liverpool responded by also bringing Andy Carroll to Anfield, in addition to Suárez. Manager Kenny Dalglish gave Carroll Torres’ number 9 shirt, while he bestowed Suárez the honour of Liverpool’s famous number 7 shirt. Some of Liverpool’s greatest players, like Kevin Keegan, Dalglish himself, John Aldridge, Peter Beardsley and Steve McManaman have all worn it.

Suárez came up through the ranks at Nacional in Uruguay. He played the 2005-06 season in the first team, where he contributed to Nacional winning the Primera Division. At the end of the season, aged 19, he moved to the Netherlands to play for FC Groningen. He was instantly noticed by bigger clubs and in August 2007 he transferred to Ajax for €7.5 million. He also made his debut for Uruguay while playing for Groningen. Suárez was also an instant success at Ajax, scoring 20 goals in his first season. He was initially a supporting striker to Klaas Jan Huntelaar and later Mounir El Hamdaoui and had a major impact with several assists in addition to his own goals. In 2009 new manager Martin Jol made Suárez the captain of the team. In 2010 he was named Footballer of the Year in the Netherlands, following a season where he was also the Eredivisie top scorer. After the transfer to Liverpool, Suárez came off the bench in his debut in a 2-0 win against Stoke, scoring the second goal to make him an instant favourite also with The Kop.

Suárez has also been surrounded by some controversy in his career. In his second season with Ajax he received numerous yellow cards and in November 2010 he was suspended after having bitten a PSV Eindhoven player. Most notorious though was his handling of the ball on the line in the 2010 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal, where he blocked a shot from Ghana in the last minute of extra time. Ghana missed the penalty and subsequently Uruguay went on to win the penalty shoot-out for a place in the semifinal. Suárez was together with Diego Forlán the two with the biggest impact on Uruguay’s strong run in the World Cup. They scored three and five goals respectively at the tournament.