05/22/2021 3:18 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 05/22/2021 5:31 PM
While Luis Suárez receives a gift from the Valladolid defense, he faces with his characteristic ferocity, gets into the area and nails it down to turn the game around and give Atlético de Madrid the title, at the Municipal Stadium of Ipurúa Barcelona it takes 81 minutes to score a goal against Eibar.
The face of the Catalan team can be summed up in a decision: he let Lionel Messi start his vacation early and played the last day with no chance of shouting champion.
And without a 9. With Antoine Griezmann closing a disappointing season with a timid celebration, with Ousmane Dembelé entangled in his speed, with Trincao adding insignificance, with Ansu Fati injured and the harmless letter from Martin Braithwaite that appears at the end of the matches as symbol of a marked decline.
Champion tears.
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While all that happens, Luis Suárez celebrates.
That he was physically worn out, that he no longer appeared in the decisive games, that the team needed other characteristics in its center-forward, that a renewal was necessary and seek younger figures.
All these evaluations prowled the controversial departure of the Uruguayan striker from Barcelona in mid-2020.
"They belittled me," Suárez sums up now, with the honeys of success and the taste of a sweet revenge.
The bet was already very dangerous with the newspaper of those days.
It was not necessary to have the guarantee of this present champion and scorer to confirm a logical diagnosis: Atlético de Madrid treasured a current forward, hungry for revenge and who would compete in the same league as the team that let him go.
It was fuel for Suárez.
It was the ideal partnership with Cholo Simeone, another who uses soul hooks to go in search of sporting feats.
And there they are both: celebrating the title in Spain, an end-to-end conquest that left the usual giants behind.
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"I had been at Barcelona for six years and I never had a problem, quite the opposite. For three years I have been saying that the team needs a young 9 to adapt. They never brought someone who could compete with me, I was always up to the task. that the club needed ", said Lucho after the emotional farewell to the team in which he left an indelible mark.
"The respect that I had earned on the pitch I deserved it before I found out from the press. That a coach comes saying that he does not count on me when the board of directors said that there was going to be a change of players raises doubts as to whether he was the coach or the directive, "he added just eight months ago.
Time took care of putting things in their place
Definition of left-handed against the stick and goal for the 2-1 of the champion Aleti.
Photo: AFP
The president who marked the exit door, Josep Maria Bartomeu, had to leave for the same but with public derision and after a historical popular move in his rejection. The coach who lowered his thumb over the phone, Ronald Koeman, never took the helm firmly and his future is anyone's guess. And the team was once again in debt, both locally and internationally, with a new forceful elimination from the Champions League.
And Suárez?
He scored 21 goals in 32 games.
“He came with an extraordinary rebellion.
It has always been there.
It is extraordinary ”, Simeone emphasized in the previous one to the definition of the League.
“He came here wanting to show that people were wrong, wanting to show that he was a forward who was still at the top of his game.
Who better than him to decide a game that seemed to get away from us? ”Cholo continued after the Uruguayan's agonizing goal on the penultimate date that served to stay on top and turn the game around Osasuna.
With the title in his pocket, the Argentine coach was more synthetic: "It's Suárez, I don't have anything else to say. It's Suárez."
The last cry was also his.
And it is a well deserved award.
Again to reverse a story that had started adversely, in Valladolid.
Angelito Correa tied it with a Romario-like goal goal (just against the team chaired by Ronaldo) and Lucho unleashed madness with his accurate left-handed definition against the post.
Who laughs last laughs better.
And the one who laughs is Suárez.
Only one Barcelona player surpassed the mark of 21 goals that the Uruguayan achieved in the champion Aleti.
Messi, of course, the Pichichi of the tournament with 30 shouts.
With the rest, there is no point of comparison.
The Uruguayan scored more goals than Griezmann (13) and Dembelé (6) combined.
Much further are Ansu Fati (4) or Braithwaite (2).
"They looked down on me and Atlético de Madrid opened the doors for me ..."
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"Atlético opened the doors for me to show that I am current, that is why I will always be grateful to this great club. I have been in football for many years but I think this was the one that my family suffered the most for all that was experienced" Suárez declared with tears in his eyes, minutes after the consecration.
"We were a fair champion. This title is special because of everything that I suffered happily. There are my statistics: I won 5 of 7 leagues. There is Luis Suárez," he defended himself and put out his chest.
Suarez cries.
Sitting on the grass of the playing field, he focuses his cell phone camera and watches his family celebrate through the screen.
In the manual of the set phrases there is one that indicates that "football always gives revenge" and another that warns that "you should never give up a scorer for dead."
Suarez turned anger into fuel, injustice into defiance.
And the results are on sight.
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