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Former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez recently called time on international football, having represented Uruguay on 143 occasions over a 17-year period.
The last of the nine with whom Suarez worked at international level was former Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa.
He is clearly displeased with how Bielsa has treated him and his colleagues, both players and support staff.
“At the Celeste Complex, employees are not allowed to come in and greet us and eat with us,” he said.
Nobody questions the fact that a guy like Vecino, who was 30 years old, left from one day to the next,” Suarez asked, in reference to the Lazio midfielder who also recently retired from international football.
“Many players held a meeting to ask the coach to at least say good morning to us, but he didn't even say hello.”
“Bielsa gives a conference and talks wonderful things about people, and in New York 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,” Suarez added.
He also explained how he tried to clear the air before retiring.“I had a five-minute chat with Bielsa, speaking as a group leader, and at the end he only replied, 'Thank you very much’.”
Suarez’s final comments were asking the fans to back the players should Uruguay’s World Cup qualification bid go awry.