Luis Suárez, a former Liverpool and Barcelona striker, announces his return to his hometown club, Nacional

Suarez signed New contract

 The agreement for Luis Suarez's spectacular return to his old team Nacional in Uruguay has been confirmed.

The former Liverpool and Barcelona striker departed LaLiga team Atletico Madrid in the summer and became a free agent.

The Uruguayan international made the decision to play at the team where his professional career began after weeks of rumors and appeals from Nacional supporters.

Suárez released a video with all of his followers on Tuesday detailing his choice to join the team.

First of all, I wanted to thank you for the love that both I and my family have received in recent days, which has been impressive, all the messages that have reached us. That touched our hearts in this situation that we had to decide and well, it was inevitable to accept this opportunity to have the possibility of playing again in Nacional and we have a pre-agreement with the club”, he said.

“In the next few hours, details will be finalized and we hope that the agreement that we all want will be reached and that we can all enjoy this new stage and see each other in the coming days,” he added.

This confirmed that Luis Suárez would be returning to play in Uruguayan football for the first time in 16 years.

During his first stint at Nacional, Suárez became the young star in that league as he scored 12 goals in 35 matches while leading the club to two league titles during his time there. Shortly thereafter, he would make his first move to Europe where he ended up at Dutch Groningen a year before sealing a transfer to Dutch giants Ajax.

He won the Eredivisie once at the Johan Cryuff Arena before he joined  Liverpool in 2011 before going on to score 82 goals in 133 appearances across all competitions for the Anfield side.

He only won the League Cup while playing for Liverpool, but after agreeing to join Barcelona in 2014, he won four of his five LaLiga championships as well as the 2015 Champions League.

After six seasons and 198 goals at Camp Nou, he left for LaLiga rivals Atletico Madrid in 2020–21, where he won the Spanish title for the final time under Diego Simeone.