Uruguay striker Luis Suarez has declared his retirement from global football.
The 37-year-old retaliated tears as he affirmed Uruguay’s Reality Cup qualifier against Paraguay on Saturday (00:30 BST) will be his last appearance for his country.
The previous Liverpool and Barcelona forward is Uruguay’s untouched driving scorer with 69 objectives in 142 appearances, having made his presentation for Uruguay against Colombia in February 2007.
“I’ve been contemplating this and examining this. I accept this is the perfect opportunity,” said Suarez.
“I need to be loose when I play my last game with the public group. I’ll be similarly as eager to play as I was in 2007 when I played for my public group interestingly.
“That 19-year old youngster is presently a veteran player, a more established player – but you need to call it – with an unbelievable history with the public group, that will give his life for the group.”
Suarez played in nine significant worldwide competitions for Uruguay.
He was shipped off in the 2010 World Cup quarter-last when he dealt with on the line during the last moment of additional opportunity to keep Ghana from advancing to the semi-finals.
Ex-Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan missed the ensuing spot-kick and Uruguay won the subsequent punishment shootout to arrive at the World Cup semi-finals without precedent for 40 years.
In 2011, Suarez drove Uruguay to triumph in the Copa America in Argentina, completing as the competition’s second top scorer with four objectives.
At the 2014 World Cup, he scored two times to assist Uruguay with beating Britain in the gathering stages yet missed the knockout stages in the wake of getting a fourth-month boycott for gnawing Italy protector Giorgio Chiellini in his side’s last gathering game.
Suarez was likewise given a nine-game global boycott and missed the 2015 Copa America.
“We went through troublesome minutes. There were many,” Suarez said during his retirement public interview. “Actually, it was more terrible for me after my monstrous slip-up in 2014. However, there’s nothing that I would censure.”
Suarez would proceed to play at the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, while he showed up in five versions of the Copa America.