Luis Suárez Miramontes

Luis Suárez Miramontes (2 May 1935 – 9 July 2023), commonly known as Luis Suárez, was a Spanish footballer and manager. He mainly played as a midfielder for Barcelona and Inter Milan during the 1950s and 1960s, and was capped 32 times for Spain. He was thought to be one of the best Spanish footballers of all time,[1][2] and one of the best midfielders of all time.[1][3][4] In 1960, he became the first Spanish-born player to win the Ballon d'Or.[2][5][nb 1] He also helped Spain win their first European Championship in 1964.[6]

Luis Suárez
File:LuisSuarezMiramontes1960.webp
Suárez with Barcelona in 1960
Personal information
Full nameLuis Suárez Miramontes
Date of birth(1935-05-02)2 May 1935
Place of birthA Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Date of death9 July 2023(2023-07-09) (aged 88)
Place of deathMilan, Italy
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing positionAttacking midfielder, Inside forward
Youth career
Perseverancia
1949–1953Fabril
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1953–1954Deportivo La Coruña17(3)
1954–1955España Industrial21(6)
1955–1961Barcelona122(62)
1961–1970Inter Milan256(42)
1970–1973Sampdoria63(9)
Total479(122)
National team
1957–1972Spain32(14)
Teams managed
1973–1974Genoa Primavera
1974–1975Inter Milan
1975Cagliari
1977SPAL
1977–1978Como
1978–1979Deportivo La Coruña
1981–1989Spain U21
1988–1991Spain
1992Inter Milan
1995Albacete
1995Inter Milan (interim)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

After he retired from playing football, he became a manager. He was the manager of Inter Milan three times, including once as an interim manager,[7] as well as Cagliari, Como, and Deportivo La Coruña. He also managed Spain at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.[2][7] He died in Milan in July 2023, at the age of 88.[8][9]

Club career

Early carrer and Deportivo La Coruña

Suárez started playing football at Perseverancia, a local team that was run by the Santo Tomás parish.[10][11] He joined Deportivo La Coruña in 1949, at the age of 14,[12][13] after passing a trial. He had learned about the trial after reading an advertisement in La Voz de Galicia that was placed by Deportivo's manager Alejandro Scopelli.[10][14]

He played for Deportivo's youth academy and reserve team, Deportivo Fabril,[13] before he was promoted to their first team for the 1953–54 La Liga season.[12][13] He made his debut for Deportivo on 6 December 1953, in a 6–1 loss against Barcelona.[15][13] He played 17 games for Deportivo in his only season there, and scored three goals.[15][13]

Barcelona

In March 1954, Suárez joined Barcelona, along with team-mate Dagoberto Moll.[13][16] The transfer fee was reported to be 600,000 pesetas.[14] He made his Barcelona debut in the 1954 Copa del Generalísimo on 2 May 1954, which was his 19th birthday,[17] in a 4–0 win against Deportivo La Coruña.[12] He played in most of the matches in the tournament, as Barcelona would lose to Valencia in the final.[12][18] He did not play many matches during the 1954–55 season under manager Sandro Puppo.[10][12][19] Instead, he played for Barcelona's reserve team, España Industrial, in the second division.[12]

During the next few seasons, he began to establish himself as a regular starter.[12] However, some of his coaches considered him "too frail" physically,[19] with manager Ferenc Plattkó making him do an extra work-out on a punching bag in order to increase his muscle mass.[12][20]

After Helenio Herrera was hired as Barcelona's manager at the start of the 1958–59 season,[12] Suárez was moved to the left inside forward position,[7][10][21] where he became one of the most important players in the team.[12][21] Suárez won two doubles with Barcelona under Herrera, winning the league and cup in the 1958–59 season,[12][21] and the league and Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in the 1959–60 season.[22][23] However, during this time, Suárez's relationship with Barcelona fans began to get worse because fans believed there was a rivalry between him and László Kubala.[10][19] This caused Suárez to start getting booed by his own fans in every game he played.[20][24]

On 9 November 1960, he scored the 1000th goal in European Cup history, in a 2–2 draw against El Clásico rivals Real Madrid. In December 1960, Suárez won the Ballon d'Or, which was awarded by French magazine France Football,[25][26] with a total of 54 votes.[12][27] This meant he became the first and only Spanish-born footballer to ever win the award,[2][22][nb 1] until Alexia Putellas won the women's award in 2021, and Rodri won the men's award in 2024. Suárez received the Ballon d'Or on 9 March 1961,[28] a few minutes before the start of a European Cup match against Spartak Hradec Králové.[25]

Suárez's last match for Barcelona was the 1961 European Cup final against Benfica,[12][23][24] where they lost 3–2.[29] In total, Suárez played 253 matches for Barcelona across seven seasons, scoring 141 goals.[17][22]

Inter Milan

On 26 May 1961, five days before the European Cup final,[29] Barcelona and Italian club Inter Milan reached an agreement for the transfer of Suárez. The transfer fee was 25 million Spanish pesetas,[19][23] which was around £152,000.[30][31] This transfer made Suárez the most expensive footballer in the world,[22][31] passing the record of Omar Sívori's transfer from River Plate to Juventus in 1957.[31] This transfer meant he was also one of the first Spanish footballers to play in Serie A,[32][33] along with Juan Santisteban.[32] This transfer has been considered one of the most controversial decisions in Barcelona's history, as the transfer fee was used to pay off the team's debts from building the Camp Nou.[5][19]

He made his debut for Inter Milan and scored his first goal on 27 August 1961, in a 6–0 win against Atalanta.[34] He later finished second in the 1961 Ballon d'Or, finishing behind Omar Sívori.[35][36]

At the start of the 1962–63 season, manager Herrera moved Suárez to a deep-lying playmaker role.[12][7] This change helped him become a key player of the Grande Inter team of the 1960s, which was known for its counter-attacking style of play.[7][37][10] On 10 March 1963, he scored a hat-trick in a 6–0 win against Genoa. This made him the first Spanish footballer to score a hat-trick in Serie A, and the only one to do it until Suso scored a hat-trick against Frosinone in 2016.[38] At the end of the 1962–63 season, Suárez won his first league title with Inter Milan.[30][39]

In the 1963–64 season, Inter Milan lost the Serie A title to Bologna in a final tie-breaker.[40] Despite this, Suárez helped them win the European Cup that season.[12][41] In the semi-finals against Borussia Dortmund, he caused controversy when he violently kicked an opposing player and injured him, and referee Branko Tesanić decided against sending off Suárez.[30] He later played in the final, where they beat Real Madrid 3–1 in Vienna.[30][21][42]

In September 1964, helped Inter Milan win the 1964 Intercontinental Cup, with a 1–0 win after extra time against Independiente in the play-off match.[43][44] In December, he finished second in the 1964 Ballon d'Or, behind winner Denis Law.[28][45] Suárez publicly talked about his disappointment over this result multiple times during his life.[5][28][10] He would help Inter Milan win the 1964–65 Serie A title,[30][46] and the 1964–65 European Cup against Benfica.[30][47]

On 25 August 1965, Suárez took part in an exhibition match against his former club Barcelona at the Camp Nou.[28] In the 38th minute of the match,[12] he unexpectedly left the field, having received boos from Barcelona fans since the start of the match. As he left, he made a bras d'honneur gesture towards the Barcelona fans before reaching the exit,[28][48] which he would regret later in life.[20] In September of that year, he helped Inter Milan beat Independiente to win their second Intercontinental Cup in a row.[49][50] In December, he finished third in the 1965 Ballon d'Or, behind team-mate Giacinto Facchetti and winner Eusébio.[36][51] During the 1965–66 season, Suárez scored five goals[52] as Inter Milan won their second league title in a row.[30][52] He also helped them reach the 1965–66 European Cup semi-finals, where they lost to Real Madrid.[53]

In May 1967, Suárez missed the European Cup final because of an injury. Inter Milan would lose the final 2–1 against Celtic.[54][55] Inter Milan also lost the 1966–67 Serie A to Juventus on the last day of the season,[56][57] and to Padova in the Coppa Italia semi-finals.[58]

During his last season at Inter Milan, he was played as a sweeper.[30] This caused his performances to decline, as he scored only one goal in Serie A. In total, Suárez played 333 matches for Inter Milan across nine seasons, scoring 55 goals.[7]

Sampdoria and retirement

In July 1970, Suárez was signed by Serie A club Sampdoria.[30][59] The transfer was a swap deal that saw Mario Frustalupi join Inter.[59] He played three seasons with Sampdoria,[12][7] and scored 13 goals in 73 games,[60] before he stopped playing professional football in 1973, at the age of 38.[6][28]

International career

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Luis del Sol and Luis Suárez with Spain in 1962.

Suárez earned 32 caps for Spain, and scored 14 goals.[8][2] He made his debut on 30 January 1957 in a 5–1 victory over the Netherlands.[17] He played for Spain at the 1962 and 1966 FIFA World Cups, and at the 1964 European Championships, which Spain won.[8][2]

He played his final game for Spain in 1972, in a draw against Greece.[10][17]

Managerial career

Suárez managed Inter Milan two times, during the 1974–75 and 1991–92 seasons.[7] He also managed three games for them during the 1995–96 season as an interim manager,[7] before they signed Roy Hodgson. He also worked as the manager of Cagliari, SPAL and Como in Italy, and Deportivo La Coruña and Albacete in Spain.[61]

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[62]
National team Year Apps Goals
Spain 1957 6 4
1958 3 2
1959 5 5
1960 7 3
1961 1 0
1962 2 0
1963 1 0
1964 2 0
1965 2 0
1966 2 0
1967 0 0
1968 0 0
1969 0 0
1970 0 0
1971 0 0
1972 1 0
Total 32 14
List of international goals scored by Luis Suárez[62]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 10 March 1957 Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland 1–1 2–2 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification
2 31 March 1957 Heysel, Brussels, Belgium  Belgium 2–0 5–0 Friendly
3 5–0
4 8 May 1957 Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland  Scotland 2–2 2–4 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification
5 13 March 1958 Parc des Princes, Paris, France  France 2–1 2–2 Friendly
6 15 October 1958 Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain  Northern Ireland 4–1 6–2 Friendly
7 28 June 1959 Silesian Stadium, Chorzów, Poland 22x20px Poland 1–1 4–2 UEFA Euro 1960 qualifying
8 3–1
9 22 November 1959 Mestalla, Valencia, Spain  Austria 2–0 6–3 Friendly
10 3–0
11 17 December 1959 Parc des Princes, Paris, France  France 1–0 3–4 Friendly
12 10 July 1960 Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru 22x20px Peru 2–0 3–1 Friendly
13 3–0
14 26 October 1960 Wembley, London, England 22x20px England 2–2 2–4 Friendly

Personal life

Suárez was born on 2 May 1935, in A Coruña, Galicia.[63] He had two older brothers, José and Agustín, who also both played football.[12] He grew up in the barrio of Monte Alto, where his family owned a butcher shop.[15][10]

Suárez married his first wife, Nieves, in 1967[64] and had two children with her. His younger son was born with congenital cleft palate, and died in 1977, aged seven.[65] After having a divorce, he married his second wife, Valentina (died 2020).[66]

In the early 2000s, he began to work as a guest pundit for sports programmes on Italian and Spanish television networks.[7][67] In 2014, he joined Cadena SER's radio programme Carrusel Deportivo,[68] where he worked as a commentator and analyst for Barcelona matches.[12][68]

On 20 November 2001, Suárez was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sporting Merit by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport for his sporting merits.[28][69]

In July 2015, Suárez donated his Ballon d'Or trophy to the FC Barcelona Museum, as part of the museum's 30th anniversary.[19][70]

Death

Suárez died on 9 July 2023, at the age of 88.[2][7][6] Former Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti broke the news. He said that Suárez was taken to the Ospedale Niguarda in Milan days before he died.[7][71]

A public funeral was held for Suárez on 11 July, at the Saint Joseph Calasanz Church in Milan. The service was attended by football fans[66][72] and representatives from Barcelona (vice-president Rafa Yuste and Juan Manuel Asensi),[66] Inter Milan (Gianfranco Bedin, Massimo Moratti, and Giuseppe Marotta)[72] and Real Madrid (Emilio Butragueño).[66][72] Also, Deportivo La Coruña, Real Madrid, and the Royal Spanish Football Federation all sent flower garlands to pay their respects to Suárez.[66][72]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[73]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Deportivo La Coruña 1953–54 La Liga 17 3 17 3
Barcelona 1953–54 La Liga 7 0 7 0
España Industrial 1954–55 Segunda División 8 7 8 7
Barcelona 1954–55 La Liga 6 3 1 1 7 4
1955–56 La Liga 17 5 2 0 19 5
1956–57 La Liga 21 13 2 0 23 13
1957–58 La Liga 12 2 6 5 2 2 20 9
1958–59 La Liga 26 14 9 6 1 0 36 20
1959–60 La Liga 23 13 2 0 11 1 36 14
1960–61 La Liga 17 10 0 0 11 5 28 15
Total 122 60 29 12 25 8 0 0 176 80
Inter Milan 1961–62 Serie A 27 11 0 0 5 4 32 15
1962–63 Serie A 29 8 1 0 11 5 30 8
1963–64 Serie A 26 3 1 0 9 1 36 4
1964–65 Serie A 29 8 3 1 9 2 3 0 44 11
1965–66 Serie A 27 5 2 0 7 0 2 0 38 5
1966–67 Serie A 32 3 2 1 9 1 43 5
1967–68 Serie A 29 2 9 1 38 3
1968–69 Serie A 29 1 0 0 29 1
1969–70 Serie A 28 1 5 1 10 1 43 3
Total 256 42 23 4 49 9 5 0 333 55
Sampdoria 1970–71 Serie A 28 5 3 2 31 7
1971–72 Serie A 27 4 4 1 31 5
1972–73 Serie A 8 0 3 1 11 1
Total 63 9 10 4 0 0 0 0 73 13
Career total 466 121 62 20 79 17 0 0 627 158

Honours

Player

Barcelona[17]
Inter Milan
Spain

Manager

Spain U21

Individual

Orders

Luis Suárez Miramontes Media

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Alfredo Di Stéfano, who won the Ballon d'Or twice after becoming a Spanish citizen in 1956, was born in Argentina.

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