{"id":40657,"date":"2024-07-08T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/copa-america-2024-suarez-fires-back-at-ex-man-utd-star-after-uruguay-defeated-brazil\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:04:24","slug":"copa-america-2024-suarez-fires-back-at-ex-man-utd-star-after-uruguay-defeated-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/copa-america-2024-suarez-fires-back-at-ex-man-utd-star-after-uruguay-defeated-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa America 2024: Suarez fires back at ex-Man Utd star after Uruguay defeated Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Inter Miami striker, Luis Suarez, has fired back at former Manchester United player, Andreas Pereira after Uruguay defeated Brazil in the quarter final of the ongoing Copa America 2024 at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Pereira had claimed before the quarter-final tie that Brazil had a \u201cteam that Uruguay dream of having.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when asked about Pereira\u2019s comment after Uruguay knocked Brazil out of the Copa America 2024, Suarez told reporters: \u201cWe have the best midfielders in the world, top-level players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo talk about Uruguay, you have to have a little more respect, know the history of Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I say which players want to be on the Brazilian national team, I have to say that the person who made that comment was [Giorgian] De Arrascaeta\u2019s reserve [at Flamengo], who is the best player in Brazilian football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo imagine what it\u2019s like for us to hear that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Uruguay defeated Brazil on penalty shootout, thanks to Manuel Ugarte, who scored Uruguay\u2019s decisive spot-kick after Eder Militao\u2019s attempt was saved and Douglas Luiz hit the post.<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay will now play Colombia in the Copa America semi final on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Copa America 2024: Suarez fires back at ex-Man Utd star after Uruguay defeated Brazil<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami striker, Luis Suarez, has fired back at former Manchester United player, Andreas Pereira after Uruguay defeated Brazil in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4426,18132,15,160,6610,4418],"tags":[1279,235,7261,2732,4429,7262,16016,1932,18098,180,201,200,6611,4420,203],"class_list":["post-40657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brazil","category-copa-america-2024","category-news","category-sport","category-suarez","category-uruguay","tag-1279","tag-after","tag-america","tag-back","tag-brazil","tag-copa","tag-defeated","tag-ex-man","tag-fires","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-star","tag-suarez","tag-uruguay","tag-utd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}