MADRID, 9 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Former Spanish soccer player Luis Suárez Miramontes, the only Spanish male soccer player to have won the Ballon d’Or and Euro 1964 champion with Spain, has died at the age of 88, Inter Milan confirmed this Sunday, the club in which he He served for much of his career.
“The legendary former Nerazzurro midfielder passed away at the age of 88. Saying goodbye to Luisito leaves us with a deep melancholy: the nostalgia for his perfect and inimitable football that inspired generations joins the memory of a unique footballer and a great Inter player. Let’s go to miss, because, as Helenio Herrera preached, “if you don’t know what to do, give the ball to Suárez”, announced the Nerazzurri club.
The Galician midfielder began his career at RC Deportivo before being signed by FC Barcelona in 1954, with whom he won two Leagues, two Cups and two Fairs Cups, as well as becoming the first Spanish Ballon d’Or in 1960 and the unique until Alexia Putellas conquered it for the first time in 2021.
However, it was at Inter Milan, a club where he ended up in 1961 as the first Spanish footballer to be signed by an Italian club, where he achieved his greatest successes, with two consecutive European Cups (1964 and 1965) and two Cups. Intercontinentals by the legendary Argentine coach Helenio Herrera, forming part of the emblematic ‘Grande Inter’.