© Getty Images -Wilson, I’m going to play for Barcelona
-Luis, you’re not even playing for Nacional [de Montevideo’s] seventh team, how do you expect to play for Barcelona?
Luis Suarez was 13 when he had that conversation with Wilson Pirez, one of the men who discovered him and, alongside Juan Pablo Sposito, the main reason why El Salta joined Nacional de Montevideo.
It was the year 2000 and Suarez was by no means finding things easy. Though he had begun to settle after the initial trauma of leaving his hometown Salta for the hustle and bustle of the Uruguayan capital, in addition to the hurt of his parents’ subsequent separation, all was not going to plan in footballing terms either.
Back then Pirez, whose video message to Suarez during the award ceremony for the ESM Golden Shoe so moved El Pistolero, was an official at Nacional and oversaw their youth ranks – in addition to being the gifted youngster’s main confidante and supporter within the club.
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