Luis Fernando Suárez

Luis Fernando Suárez ( born December 23, 1959 in Medellín, Colombia ) is a former Colombian football player and current coach. By November 2007, he coached the Ecuadorian national football team; he is coach of Honduras since 2011.

Suárez played in the youth teams of the football club Medellin. At the age of 21 years, his professional career at Atlético Nacional. He then played at Deportivo Pereira. There, however, he remained only one season, as it pulled him back to his home club after Medellín, with whom he won the Copa Libertadores 1989. From 1978 to 1979 he was a member of the Colombian youth team.

In 1991 he was an assistant coach at Atletico Nacional. For many years Suárez worked as an assistant coach in various clubs and in the Ecuadorian and Colombian national team. In 1999, he returned as head coach at Atlético Nacional and won with his team the Colombian championship. In 2001, he worked briefly at Deportivo Cali and Deportes Tolima, before he went in 2003 to Ecuador in Quito and the club SD Aucas took over.

In July 2004, Suárez became successor of Hernán Darío Gómez as national coach of Ecuador and led his team successfully through qualifying for the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany (including with home wins against Brazil and Argentina). In the group stage of the tournament the team finished second behind Germany and was eliminated in the second round against England (0-1) from. Previously, he had worked from 1995 to 1998 as assistant to his Colombian compatriot Francisco Maturana for the national team of Ecuador. In the Copa America 1997 Bolivia Suárez had led the team as interim coach independently. Suárez resigned in November 2007 from his coaching job after Ecuador at the Copa América three losses had occurred in three group matches and was also started with three defeats in the World Cup qualifiers in 2010 ( a 0-1 home defeat against Venezuela, a 0:5 defeat in Brazil and a 1:5 defeat in Paraguay). His successor was the Ecuadorian coach Sixto Vizuete.

In May 2008, Suárez accepted an offer of the Colombian first division team Deportivo Pereira.