When it comes to describing Luis Suarez, Gerrard Pique said it best.
“He is a different style of player to those we had before. Xavi and Iniesta are really sweet and you enjoy watching them with the ball. With Luis Suárez it is the other side: he fights.”
There are a few names for what Chile's Gonzalo Jara did to Uruguay's Edinson Cavani in the Copa America quarterfinals, which Chile won, 1-0.
One of my coworkers called it "credit-carding." A friend who played high school soccer with my cousin calls it "checking his oil." My high school basketball coach calls it "cornholing."
There's no way to sugarcoat this: Gonzalo Jara gave Edinson Cavani an involuntary prostate exam. He stuck his finger up Edinson Cavani's ass. Then he fell to the ground and pretended Cavani hit him in the face.
Barcelona have won the treble with possibly the deadliest front three in the modern game, and there is simply no stopping them. As Messi, Suarez and Neymar (MSN) now fight against each other in the Copa America, Luis Enrique is busy behind his desk in Spain creating the next squad that can sustain the current reputation. Which, let's be honest, is as hot as the Hindenburg right before it exploded.
Here are some of the possible line-ups Luis Enrique could use to ensure back-to-back championships:
Option 1 – Play Messi Wide, Send In Pogba As Reinforcement
The internet can be a heartless place. People argue, and insult, hack, steal and slander, and they do pretty much all of it with the guilt free understanding that the people they harm will never enter their lives as more than a username or profile picture. The easier the target, the more it is put through the grinder, and as far as targets go, they don’t get much easier than Luis Suarez.
After their utter demolition of Getafe in La Liga yesterday, Barcelona forwards Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr., and Luis Suarez have eclipsed 100 goals in all competitions. A respectable return to say the least, and one that few would argue justifies the huge pile of cash required to assemble the trio, with Neymar and Luis Suarez costing a reported 138 million Euros combined.
In 2009, when Zlatan Ibrahimovic moved to Barcelona in a transfer that shook the very foundations of soccer, everyone thought that Barcelona had just tied up club soccer for the next 5 years. They would indeed go on to dominate the world, but not with Zlatan.
Few games evoke a more visceral reaction than Liverpool vs. Man United. A fixture dating back more than 120 years, it’s a tried and tested recipe for creating endemic levels of anger, vitriol, bad losers and even worse winners. It’s why this Sunday’s BPL clash between the two kicks off at 1:30pm GMT, so everybody doesn’t have too much time to get overly beered-up (though, by God, they’ll try).
So The18 thought this the perfect opportunity to roll out our Top Five Most Hated Players in the history of Liverpool vs. Man United. In no particular order of loathsomeness:
With Christmas just around the corner and Santa putting his final touches on his naughty and nice list, we here at The18 thought we’d put together our own list of soccer’s naughtiest and nicest personas of 2014.
Luis Suarez
