Uruguay striker Luis Suarez is getting closer to retirement, but the veteran player says he wants to have fun in his final years no matter how many minutes he gets on the field at Copa America.
Uruguay’s record scorer with 68 international goals, the man who scored twice in a dream upset to knock them out of their own World Cup years ago and agonised over this one for months while injured, couldn’t have kicked up a fuss.
So yes, enjoying very bit of it. Suarez added: “It is one of those things that as older you get the more appreciate it if playing a lot or little because football goes by very quickly and at my age, and with everything I’ve done in football…eliminating would be an ugly way to leave for our elimination so have faith.
Im just another (guy) here, you guys already saw it. Whether I am playing or not, as long as the part that I have to play then fine and trying my best whether it plays off spin well.
Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone, who once hailed Suarez’s form as entering the “Luis Suarez zone” and helped fire his side to its final league title in 2020-21, comes up against a likely fired-up performer on Sunday.
Suarez is confident the next generation will deliver as Uruguay take on Brazil in a blockbuster quarter-final in Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday.
