Luis Suárez trains for the first time with Nacional

08/02/2022 at 00:12

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The former Barça player’s debut could come in the Copa Sudamericana duel against Atlético Goianiense

Suárez: “I’m here for you. Nowhere else would I be so happy. I came here because I want to win”

The front Luis Suarez He trained this Monday for the first time with his new teammates National, one day before the team led by Pablo Repetto faces the Atletico Goianense for the first leg of the quarterfinals of the South American Cup.

The practice, held at the Los Céspedes sports complex, located on the outskirts of Montevideo, began with a extensive warm-up and various exercises led by the physical trainer. Later, the footballers played a casual Party, something they usually do in the days before the games.

In this way, the Nacional players closed their preparation for the duel against the Brazilians, which will be played this Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. local time (22:15 GMT) at the Gran Parque Central stadium. In the absence of a day for this game, the question that everyone asks is just one: Does Luis Suarez make his debut? Hoping that it will be so, the fans of the Tricolor already They sold out all the locations that were put up for sale. However, Repetto has not yet announced the starting eleven that could be made up of Sergio Rochet; Leandro Lozano, Leonardo Coelho, Nicolás Marichal, Camilo Cándido; Alfonso Trezza, Yonathan Rodríguez, Felipe Carballo, Diego Zabala; Franco Fagundez and Emmanuel Gigliotti.

This Sunday, Suárez was presented as a new footballer for Nacional at a party held in the Tricolor field that lasted about three hours. “I’m here for you. Nowhere else would I be so happy. I came here because I want to win,” the attacker said during a short speech. In accordance with this, the number 9 clarified his intention to fight for the two titles that the Uruguayan team will try to achieve in the rest of the season: the local championship and the South American Cup.

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