THE "GUNMAN" OF THE BARÇA
Suárez surpasses the record of Forlán and closes a magic week
Published:24/04/2016 - 01:12h
Updated:24/04/2016 - 01:12h
The Uruguayan forward of the FC Barcelona, Luis Suárez, sum at present 34 goals in League BBVA and, to fault of three days for the end of the competition, already has surpassed the 32 goals that annotated Diego Forlán with the T-shirt of the Athletic
This has been, without place to doubts, a magic week for Luis Suárez, at least regarding individual statistics. The attacker charrúa of the FC Barcelona, after having signed a prodigious "póker" of goals against the Sportive and have delivered also three assistances in this same party, went back to deleitar to the public of the Camp Nou against the Sporting of Gijón with a new "póker", that does even more extraordinary his present season in League BBVA 2015-16.
The Uruguayan, that accumulates 34 goals in the domestic championship, had to two targets of distance, before the party, the 32 that annotated Diego Forlán during the season 2008-09 with the Athletic of Madrid, being until the moment the Uruguayan player that more so many had marked in a same campaign in the Spanish League. To the "9" of the Barcelona like him the challenges and already has surpassed him, making history.
The Sporting of Gijón is one of the worst defensive teams of the League, thing that has facilitated him the work in a stadium like the Camp Nou, with a lot of spaces and the lawn in perfect conditions so that all the stars shine in all his splendour. The Wednesday against the Sportive, besides, Luis Suárez beat the record scorer of Ronaldo Nazario in the Barça, that annotated 47 targets in the campaign 1996-97. Now, between all the competitions, the charrúa adds 53 goals.
Diego Forlán, in any case, marked his 32 goals in 33 parties of League. To Suárez, that carries 34 goals, remain him for playing the duels in front of Real Betis, Espanyol and Granada, all they teams of the low zone of the classification. Together, Luis Suárez and Diego Forlán achieved with the selection of Uruguay the fourth place in the World-wide of 2010 and the Glass America of 2011.
They are very good friends, and when Forlán sacked in 2015 of the Uruguayan selection Luis Suárez devoted him a very moving letter. "Thank you By all the moments that did us enjoy, by all what did by our selection, by all what taught me like professional and like mate so much inside as out of the field. Always you were a referent, no only for my but for a lot of players, and go it to be followed being. A big for all the Uruguayans!!!! Diego, thank you very much by everything!!!".