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Luis Suárez achieved an incredible achievement and celebrated it with the fans

By Fredi Roman

Luis Suárez achieved an incredible achievement and shared a letter with his fans to celebrate it.

Luis Suárez achieved an incredible achievement and shared a letter with his fans to celebrate it.

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Luis Suárez was one of Atlético de Madrid's heroes in the match against Alavés in LaLiga Santander. The attacker scored the only goal of the commitment that allows Diego Simeone's team to maintain their distance at the top of the standings. But, the conquest of the ‘charrúa’ also has another special value at the individual level.

The Uruguayan celebrated 500 goals by achieving his 19th goal with the red-and-white box, to which he adds the 198 goals he scored with Barcelona (where he is the club's third top scorer), 111 with Ajax, 82 with Liverpool, 15 with Groningen and 12 with Nacional de Montevideo, the club in which he debuted in May 2005. Along with those 63 goals are added with the Uruguayan team, in which he is also the top scorer in history.

Suárez thank all of them and addressed them a letter, published this Monday through their social networks, beginning with his debut in the ‘Tricolor’. "When I made my professional debut with the team of my childhood dreams, I thought nothing could be better than that, and then we won the league together", he recalled. In the letter he also thanked "the trust and support" of Groningen, his first European destination, and the impact on his career from Ajax.

“There was hardly a better place to learn and believe as a player. Having captained a club like this is the greatest thing I have achieved in my career", he confessed. Regarding Liverpool, he highlighted “the connection with the fans”, and in Barcelona he was able to “play with the best players in the world and conquer Europe”.

For it´s part, he spoke about of his present.

About his current club, Atlético, he said that he is "enjoying and fighting" for the club, that he wants to score "many more goals" and that he wants the fans to come back soon so that he can "celebrate them together", as well as he recalled that representing Uruguay with the national team was always "the greatest honor." Finally, he addressed the fans, who played "their part in all the goals" according to Suárez, who said goodbye with thanks: "To all the fans who supported me in my teams throughout all these years, from Montevideo to Madrid, from 0 to 500. And what is to come... ”, concluded.


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