His majestic brace against Portugal sent Uruguay into the quarter-finals but after he was ruled out due to injury, they crashed out to eventual champions France. Cavani only came onto the pitch as Suarez’s replacement at the hour mark.Ĭavani, the gangling, long-haired marksman, was Uruguay’s best player at the last World Cup in Russia. With the arrivals of Nunez and Pellestri, Suarez and Cavani don’t share the pitch as often as they did in their prime. Qatar is the Last Dance for the likes of Suarez, his longtime strike partner Edinson Cavani - who was on the bench, as well as defensive bulwarks Diego Godin and Martin Caceres. Just months before the World Cup, his career in Europe having come to an end after trophy-laden stints with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in Spain, the 35-year-old fired Nacional to the Primera Division title in his homeland.Īgainst South Korea on Thursday at the Education City Stadium, the facade of which comprises triangles that play the suns rays in all directions, Suarez started at the top of a three-man attacking trident with up-and-coming stars Darwin Nunez and Facundo Pellestri, the ones Uruguay will look to build their future on once Suarez calls it a day. The focus at this World Cup in Qatar has been so heavy on Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi that it has overshadowed the fact that Suarez, one of their contemporaries, is also very likely playing his last finals.
Remember him? A prolific scorer of stunning goals, a serial winner, he’s had his moments of notoriety at World Cups a handball - not as celebrated as Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ - that prevented a winner for Ghana in 2010 and followed that up by taking a bite off Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini four years later.
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