Luis Suarez is one of the most prolific strikers of this generation. Having plied his trade in Netherlands, England and Spain, he has tasted success everywhere. So through this article, we take a look at Luis Suarez Net Worth, Luis Suarez Endorsements and Luis Suarez Salary.
Football career:
An Uruguayan professional football player, Luis Suarez is currently plying his trade for Spanish club Barcelona. One of the best strikers in the world for quite some time now, Suarez has won 17 trophies in his career, including five league titles and a UEFA Champions League title at club level, and a Copa América with Uruguay.
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Suarez made a name for himself for his prolific goalscoring. Not surprisingly, he has won two European Golden Shoes, an Eredivisie Golden Boot, a Premier League Golden Boot. In addition, he also ended the six-year dominance of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo by winning La Liga’s Pichichi Trophy in 2016. He has scored over 400 senior career goals for club and country.
Suarez’s career began with Nacional in 2003 as a youth player. At the age of 19, he relocated to the Netherlands to play for Groningen, before securing a breakaway transfer to Ajax in 2007.
He won his first trophy in 2010, the KNVB Cup, finishing the season as the league’s top scorer and was named Dutch Footballer of the Year.
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In the following year, he helped Ajax win the Eredivisie title. In the same campaign, he scored his 100th club for the Dutch club. The notable performances soon helped him secure a move to English giants Liverpool in 20122. In his first full season with the Merseyside club, he won the League Cup.
He soon established himself as arguably the most prolific striker in the league. In 2014, he was named the PFA Players’ Player of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year as well as winning the Premier League Golden Boot, and sharing the European Golden Shoe with Cristiano Ronaldo. His incredible season took Liverpool agonizingly to their first Premier League title before they lost out to Manchester City by 2 points.
The performance in England, meanwhile, soon secured Suarez a dream move to Barcelona. The transfer was worth €82.3 million (£64.98 million), making him one of the most expensive players in football history. He forged a deadly partnership with Messi and Neymar at the Spanish club. In his maiden season at Spain, he helped Barcelona win a historic second continental treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League.
Messi, Suarez, Neymar (dubbed MSN), scored a total of 122 goals that season, the most for an attacking front three in Spanish football history.
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In his second season, he won his first Pichichi Trophy for scoring most number of goals in La Liga as well as his second European Golden Shoe. He thus became the first player since 2009 to win both awards other than Messi or Ronaldo. He also provided 16 assists, thus becoming the first player in history to top La Liga in both goals and assists.
His performance for his national side is equally impressive. He is Uruguay’s all-time leading goalscorer. At the 2010 FIFA World Cup he played an important role in Uruguay’s fourth-place finish, scoring three goals, as well as controversially blocking a goal-bound extra time header with his hands during the quarter-final against Ghana.
At the 2011 Copa América, Suárez scored four goals, helping the two-time World Cup-winners win a record fifteenth Copa América. Suarez bagged the award for the Player of the Tournament. At the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Suarez scored his 40th international goal before he was suspended from the tournament after biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini.
Luis Suarez Endorsements:
Suarez had a sponsorship deal with German sportswear and equipment supplier Adidas. In 2018, Adidas launched the new ‘cold-blooded’ collection with his name. But in August 2018, he switched from Adidas to Puma as his sportswear sponsor. The deal is worth £1million a year.
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The Uruguay star also featured in an advertisement with Lionel Messi for Gatorade.
He featured in a 2014 advertisement for Beats alongside Neymar and Thierry Henry. In Uruguay, Suarez has appeared in advertisements for Abitab, Antel, Cablevision, Garnier, Pepsi, and Samsung. In Asia, he endorses tech company Tronsmart and phone company Gome in China.
According to Forbes, he raked in $7 million from endorsements last year.
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Luis Suarez Salary:
He receives £290,000 as salary per week. Suarez is currently paid a total of $20million a year by Barcelona. According to Forbes, he earned $19.9 million in salary and bonuses in the 2017-18 season. He was ranked 60th in Forbes’ list of The World’s Highest-Paid Athletes 2018.
Luis Suarez Net Worth:
The estimated net worth of Suarez is $51 million. His net worth has seen a hike of 33% over the past few years. Suarez also has a house in his native Montevideo, Uruguay. He bought his luxury home in 2014. The estimated value of his real estate property is around $3.2 million.
| Teams | Uruguay, Barcelona |
| Endorsements | Puma, Gatorade, Abitab, Antel, Cablevision, Garnier, Pepsi, Samsung |
| Salary | £290,000 per week |
| Net Worth | $51 million |
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