Will Luis Suarez’s Injury Derail His and Uruguay’s Copa America Bid?

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Published: May 28, 2016

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The Copa America Centenario has not even begun, but the most crucial moment of Uruguay’s campaign may have already happened.

Approaching the hour mark in Barcelona’s Copa del Rey final clash with Sevilla at the Vicente Calderon in Madrid, Suarez stretched out his right leg to control a ball and, in doing so, injured his hamstring. He was already upset when he hobbled off, with Andres Iniesta consoling him, and that evolved into full-blown tears when slumped on the bench.

Suarez pulled his shirt up over his face so the world could not see his tears.

Perhaps they flowed because he now wasn't able to help his Barcelona team-mates in their quest to complete their double, but more likely it was because of the implications it will have on Uruguay's bid to lift the Copa America.



After scoring 59 goals in all competitions this season, Suarez is without doubt the most in-form player in the world. He won the European Golden Shoe and La Liga's Pichichi award as top goalscorer. This should have been his summer. It could still be.

Suarez will not relent on his recovery mission. He made that clear before the 2014 World Cup when he did everything he could to get fit for the tournament.

Despite being pictured in a wheelchair, after keyhole surgery on his knee, just weeks later he was blowing England away, putting a brace past Joe Hart to crush the Three Lions’ dreams.

But this time he will have to do it without his saviour, Walter "Manosanta" Ferreira. "Holy hands."



The Uruguayan physio, whom Suarez had first met as a teenager when he was with Nacional, had left his job with the national team that he had held for a quarter of a century because he was afflicted with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Suarez begged him to come to the tournament, and eventually he did, helping the striker rehabilitate, goading him, driving him on towards recove...
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