The sports career of Luis Suárez started in the Deportivo de La Coruña until he signed for Barça in 1954. At the Catalan club he won two Leagues, two Fairs Cups and two Generalissimo Cups, as well as being awarded in 1960 with the Golden Ballthus becoming the first and only Spanish-born male player to win that trophy.
In 1961 he signed for the Inter de Milanbeing the first Spanish footballer to be signed by an Italian club, where he achieved his greatest successes, with two consecutive European Cups (1964 and 1965) and two Intercontinental Cups at the hands of the legendary Argentine coach Helenio Herrera, forming part of the emblematic ‘ Grande Inter club”. He finally retired as a footballer in the ranks of Sampdoria in 1973.
As a coach he was on the benches of Inter, Sampdoria, As y Cagliari. In 1978 he returned to Depor and in 1980 he took over as coach Sub-21 until 1988, winning the 1986 European Championship, the first for Spain in the category. In 1988 he made the leap to the senior level and played in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, where the Spanish team fell in the round of 16, and was dismissed on the way to the 1992 European Championship in Sweden, in which Spain failed to participate.
Today the clubs in which he was a benchmark mourn his death and remember the successes of the player who led them to success: “The legendary former Nerazzurro midfielder passed away at the age of 88. Saying goodbye to Luisito leaves us with a deep melancholy: the nostalgia for his football The perfect and inimitable figure that inspired generations joins the memory of a unique footballer and a great Inter player. “announced Inter Milan.
2023-07-09 09:38:21
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