While football may be the biggest sport in the world, it’s also one of the hardest to break into as a young player.
The football world is full of tales about a player’s struggles to earn their place in the game, and Watford’s Luis Suárez is no different.
The striker is currently out on loan at Real Zaragoza and impressing, with six goals in his first seven games earning him top goalscorer spot in La Liga2 and putting the club in promotion contention.
Suárez can consider himself very lucky to even be playing football, though, with El Desmarque reporting he was once told he would never play football again.
Amid Suárez’s rising fame in Spain, the newspaper have covered the striker’s life story, and that includes a severe injury when he was a youngster.
Back in 2012, aged 14, Suarez was playing for Versailles FC when a challenge with an opponent left him rushing to the hospital.
An MRI scan revealed a fractured skull and a neurosurgeon telling the youngster “you can’t go back to play, never again”. Fortunately, Suarez decided to ignore the advice.
El Desmarque explain that ‘no one was going to truncate his passion’ with the player determined ‘help his family through football’. That was something he was soon doing.
Three years later he was making his debut with Colombian side Leones de Itaguí, although he could have ended up at Brazilian side Cruzeiro before that, having passed all the test for the club before ‘a negotiation issue’ stopped the move happening.
He’s now shining at Zaragoza, with Watford likely keeping a close eye on the situation, particularly after his decision to become a Spanish citizen, and proof that sometimes chasing your dreams, no matter what, is hugely beneficial.
