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Luis Suarez’s club career has been winding down in MLS.
After leaving Gremio at the end of 2023, the former Liverpool striker joined Inter Miami in December 2023 for the 2024 season, later extending his stay with the club for 2025 and 2026.
That move to Miami came after a productive spell in Brazil. Suarez had signed a two-year contract with Gremio in 2022, but his time there ended early before he completed a second full season, paving the way for his reunion with Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba in the United States. Since then, he has spent the last few seasons with Inter Miami.
On the international front, Suarez originally called time on his Uruguay career in September 2024.
He announced that the World Cup qualifier against Paraguay that year would be his final match for La Celeste.
At the time, the decision looked definitive, and Uruguay appeared ready to move on from one of the greatest players in the nation’s history.
Yet the story did not end there. In April 2026, Suarez made it clear that he would be open to helping Uruguay again ahead of the World Cup, insisting he would never say no to his country if needed.
Even so, Marcelo Bielsa left him out of Uruguay’s final 26-man squad for the tournament
Now Suarez has confirmed that there will be no second comeback.
Speaking ahead of Uruguay’s final group game against Spain on Saturday, the former Liverpool striker has now admitted that he has retired for his nation once again:
“There is always the desire to want to be there and now enjoying and suffering like the Uruguayans.”
“You always have that desire. Uruguay has three strikers who have stood out and earned their place in the World Cup. My time with Uruguay is over,” Suarez confirmed as quoted by AS.
He added on his nation’s struggles at the World Cup having drawn their two World Cup group games so far with Spain to come:
“We are in a situation where the Uruguayan does not want to arrive, but it seems that we are destined to go to the limit. In 2014 we were the same, in 2018 we went through the group top, we played against Portugal and we beat them. The Uruguayan will want to show his enthusiasm. There are important players in the best teams in the world.”
Suarez is the record goal scorer for Uruguay with 69 goals, 11 clear of Edinson Cavani.