As Uruguay striker Luis Suarez retires from international football, BBC Sport looks at how he became one of Europe's best.
The former Liverpool and Barcelona forward, who is still playing for Inter Miami in Major League Soccer in America, will go down in history as one of Uruguay's greatest ever - helping them to a Copa America triumph in 2011.
He impressed in the youth ranks before being given his first-team debut in May 2005 against Junior of Colombia in the Copa Libertadores - but things went far from smoothly for him. "I remember another day Luis told me he was going to play for Barcelona in the future, and he would not surrender until he did it. You know Barcelona in those days was like an impossible dream, but the history is marked - he made it."Thanks in no small part to Lasarte's belief in him and Suarez's own mental strength, the striker persevered and ended with 10 goals in 27 matches as Nacional won the Uruguayan title.
He said: "When we were in Nacional youth, we trained at 6pm, but he looked for me at 5pm to arrive early at the training ground to take shots and penalties before anyone else arrived. That was Luis every step, he wanted to perfect his skills. He didn't want to lose at anything.
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