Luis Javier Suárez Charris (born 2 December 1997) is a Colombian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the

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national football team

Club career

Born in

Santa Marta Santa Marta (), officially the Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta (), is a port List of cities in Colombia, city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. It is the capital of Magdalena Department and the fou ...

, Suárez made his senior debut with Leones on 5 October 2015, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–3

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away loss against

América de Cali América de Cali S. A., best known as América de Cali or América, is a Colombian professional football club based in Cali. It competes in the Categoría Primera A, the top-flight league of Colombian football. The team plays its home games at ...

. The following 1 March, after eight first-team appearances, he was loaned to

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until 2017 with a buyout clause, and was assigned to the reserves in

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. On 17 July 2017, after having his federative rights assigned to

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, Suárez was loaned to

Real Valladolid B Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol Promesas is the reserve team of Real Valladolid, a Spanish football club based in Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded in 1942, currently plays in , holding home games at the Ciudad ...

in the third division for a year. The following 9 July, after scoring 11 goals, he joined

side

Gimnàstic de Tarragona Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona, commonly known as Gimnàstic Tarragona or sometimes just Nàstic, is a Spanish sports club based in Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its football team plays in . The club was founded in 1886 an ...

also in a temporary deal. Suárez made his professional debut on 20 August 2018, replacing

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late into a 1–1 home draw against

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. He scored his first goal on 7 October, netting the equalizer in a 1–1 draw at

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. On 21 June 2019, Suárez was loaned to

Real Zaragoza Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. (), commonly referred to as Zaragoza, is a football club based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, that currently competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system, Spanish league system. Zarag ...

, still in the Spanish second division. He ended the regular season with 19 goals, being the team's top goalscorer, but was not allowed to play in the play-offs as his loan ended. On 2 October 2020, Suárez returned to Granada on a five-year contract, for a fee of £10 million. On 18 July 2022,

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in France announced Suárez's transfer. However, on 5 December, he returned to Spain and its top flight after agreeing to a loan deal with

, with an obligatory buyout clause if the club avoided relegation. On 1 October 2023, Suarez scored a hat-trick, with all three goals being assisted by

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in a 3–3 draw against

International career

On 12 November 2020, Suárez debuted for the Colombian senior team against

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Career statistics

Club

International

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Suarez, Luis 1997 births Living people Footballers from Santa Marta Colombian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Categoría Primera B players Leones F.C. footballers La Liga players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Ligue 1 players Club Recreativo Granada players Real Valladolid Promesas players Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers Real Zaragoza players Granada CF footballers UD Almería players Watford F.C. players Olympique de Marseille players Colombian expatriate men's footballers Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Colombian expatriate sportspeople in England Colombian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in England Expatriate men's footballers in France Colombia men's international footballers Footballers from Magdalena Department 21st-century Colombian sportsmen