Having retired from international football last month, Uruguay legend Luis Suarez has launched a scathing attack on his former coach.
In September, Suarez announced his retirement from national team duty, bringing an end to a 17-year career in the sky-blue shirt.
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Just months earlier, the 37-year-old played at his last Copa America as Uruguay reached the semi-finals of the competition before being dumped out by finalists Colombia.
The 2024 Copa America was a relative success for La Celeste as their third-place finish was the furthest they have gone in the tournament since winning it in 2011.
However, Suarez has now revealed that, behind the scenes, not everything was well, largely because of head coach Marcelo Bielsa.
Speaking on television show De Futbol Se Habla Asi, the former Liverpool and Barcelona superstar said: "There were situations that occurred at the Copa America that hurt to see, that I didn't talk about for the good of the group. It's going to continue to happen. The players are going to reach a limit and explode.
"At the Copa America, there were players who told me, 'Luis, I'll play the Copa America and then I won't play again'.
"That tells you that we're nearing a difficult situation. Then you get over it and you return because you love your country. We all love representing our country.
"... There were a lot of players who set up a meeting [with Bielsa] to ask the coach to, at the very least, greet us with a good morning.
"He wouldn't even say hello. I had a five-minute meeting with him as a leader of the team and in the end, he only responded with a, 'thank you very much'.
"Bielsa gives a conference and talks wonderful things about people, and in New York [during the latest Copa America] there was a day when he asked us not to stop to greet people, and I stood up and I told him that we were going to greet people anyway."
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