Luis Suárez refused plea after Sporting loss: “No, I won’t” | OneFootball

Luis Quintero recalled Torreense’s historic 2-1 victory over Sporting in the Portuguese Cup final and revealed a curious episode involving Luis Suárez right after the match. The Colombian tried to get the Sporting striker’s shirt, but was turned down.

Speaking on Post United’s ‘El After’ podcast, as reported by A Bola, the winger described the moment. “When it ended, I went to ask Luis Suárez for his shirt and he told me no. He told me a story, that he had to give it to his mother. I even had three shirts for the game myself.”

Quintero then joked about the situation and admitted he believes Sporting’s defeat weighed on the decision. The Lions players “have a thousand shirts” and, in the Colombian’s view, Suárez refused “surely because of the pain of losing the final.” “He told me: ‘No, I’m not giving it to you.’ I greeted him before the game, everything was perfect. But he lost the final and, for some reason, he didn’t give me the shirt.”

The Torreense player also revisited several moments from the match at Jamor. The team took the lead very early and went into halftime fully believing they could surprise Sporting. “We went into halftime, looked at each other and said, ‘We can win this! We’re 1-0 up, there are 45 minutes left.’”

Luis Suárez did level the score in the 54th minute, and Geny Catamo later had a goal ruled out. Even so, Quintero felt that the Torres Vedras side never lost emotional control of the match. “We weren’t pinned back in the final minutes, we were well positioned. Then extra time came and it was our festival!”

Stopira would eventually make it 2-1 in the 106th minute, securing the trophy for Torreense. “They didn’t have any other clear chances. We parked the bus, didn’t suffer too much and ended up beating Sporting to win the Portuguese Cup,” the winger recalled.

The triumph remains one of the most memorable moments of Quintero’s career, and he admits he was flooded with messages after the final whistle. “I’ve never received so many messages in my life,” he confessed, in a reflection in which the victory over Sporting naturally took center stage.

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