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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas said Saturday that Luis Suárez will be the one to decide whether he remains with the club next season, but emphasized that the door remains open.

The 38-year-old joined Inter Miami in December 2023 on a one-year contract, before the forward decided to extend the deal through the 2025 Major League Soccer season. His current contract is set to expire in the hours following the team’s MLS Cup appearance on Saturday.

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“Luis Suárez is a legend of football, he is one of the best nines not only of this generation but of all time. Luis will have to make a decision when the season is over, so tomorrow,” Mas told reporters ahead of the clash with the Vancouver Whitecaps at Chase Stadium.

“In terms of the club, I want to say this because I have read a lot about Luis, I’ll say it in this context: If in the beginning of the year, they gave us a paper about a center forward that played more than 4000 minutes and scored more than 15/16 goals and 16/17 assists, everyone here would sign that paper to have a forward like that.

“Luis deserves to be able to make that decision to be able to leave through the front door and be celebrated like he should be by the club. And if he decides to stay at the club for another year, it would be great. I would like to see Suárez stay.

Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez arrive at Chase Stadium for Saturday’s MLS Cup final between Inter Miami and the Vancouver Whitecaps. Rich Storry/Getty Images

“Obviously then the conversations would be how Luis Suárez would stay, but obviously we would include [head coach, Javier] Mascherano and Luis, but the decision is up to him.”

Suárez concluded the 2025 MLS regular season with 10 goals and 10 assists in 28 appearances, before going on to record one assist in four playoff matches.

Mascherano recently made the call to replace Suárez with Mateo Silvetti in the starting lineup, incorporating the Argentine teenager in the previous three games for Inter Miami.

The decision originally stemmed from Suárez earning a one-game suspension for the final game of the Round One best-of-three series against Nashville SC, but Mascherano continued to play with the offensive trident of Silvetti, Lionel Messi and Tadeo Allende following the end of Suárez’s ban.

“At the end of the day, Luis [picked up the suspension], and that’s the reason we have a squad of players,” said Miami co-owner David Beckham. “That’s the reason we have a squad of good players that can come in and make a difference.

“When Luis picked up the suspension, there was an opportunity for someone else to come in and those players that come in have done really well, so that’s the opportunities that come along. It’s why we build a squad of players.”

Inter Miami heads into MLS Cup against the Whitecaps on Saturday after recording three consecutive victories with four or more goals. The team won 4-0 against Nashville, 4-0 against FC Cincinnati and 5-1 over New York City FC in the Eastern Conference final to reach the league final for the first time.

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  Buster OlneyOct 17, 2025, 09:22 PM ET

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SEATTLE — Eugenio and Genesis Suárez, husband and wife, had long envisioned a moment like the one he experienced here Friday evening, when his dramatic grand slam moved the Seattle Mariners within one victory of winning the AL Championship Series.

With Seattle trailing the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth inning, Cal Raleigh tied the score with a solo home run, and then four batters later, Suárez blasted a bases-loaded shot over the right-field wall — his second homer of the game — to help the Mariners win 6-2 in Game 5 of the ALCS.

Seattle has a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series that moves back to Toronto for Game 6 and, if necessary, Game 7.

On Sunday, rookie Trey Yesavage starts the must-win Game 6 for Toronto.

“We still have home-field advantage,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said. “As cool of an environment it is to play here, I know that our fans are going to be ready for us to get home on Sunday. I’ve said it all along. It’s a seven-game series, and we did our job coming in here taking two out of three, and we’re going to go home and we’re going to definitely be ready to play.

“All we can do is enjoy the flight back to Toronto, enjoy our beds at our homes and our families, and we’re going to get after it on Sunday. … We’ll get after it on Sunday. We’ll be ready to play. I wouldn’t have it any other way with this group. Our backs are going to be against the wall, great. We don’t give a s—. … It’s going to be fun, and I hope these guys are ready for it.”

This is Suárez’s 12th year in the majors and, afterward, he explained that he and his wife had prayed for a moment like this, when all parts of his life would collide, professional and personal, success and joy and family, melded together.

“I’ve been waiting for games like this my whole career,” Suárez said. “Today, I had it. Today, I had it in front of our crowd, in front of my family, my two daughters, my wife, and the moment is very special right now.”

Eugenio Suárez on putting Seattle on the verge of its first World Series appearance with a late, go-ahead grand slam: “This is the biggest home run of my career.” AP Photo/David J. Phillip

It was unexpected, based on what occurred in recent days and in the early innings of this game. The Jays had blown out the Mariners in Games 3 and 4, and then in Game 5, Toronto took a 2-1 lead when Ernie Clement singled home Alejandro Kirk in the sixth inning. Schneider placed that lead in the hands of left-hander Brendon Little in the eighth inning, continuing to throw different relievers at different parts of the Seattle lineup, rather than allowing the Mariners’ best hitters get accustomed to the same relievers day after day.

But Raleigh, batting right-handed, clubbed a high fly ball to left — it felt like the ball was in the air for an hour, Mariners manager Dan Wilson said later — and after reaching an apex of 155 feet, it dropped into the stands. Tie game.

Raleigh and Suárez were the only stable parts in a lineup that had been altered before this game, with Wilson moving Julio Rodriguez to the leadoff spot and Josh Naylor to cleanup, dropping Randy Arozarena to the fifth spot. But for Little, the sequence of hitters didn’t really matter; he just couldn’t throw strikes.

He walked Jorge Polanco, and Naylor. Seranthony Dominguez replaced him, and hit Arozarena with a pitch, loading the bases for Suárez, who had hit a solo homer in the second inning.

Suárez played for the Mariners in 2022 and 2023 and in that time, his Seattle teammates came to appreciate his relentless good nature and his positive personality. On the July day that Seattle reacquired him from the Diamondbacks, he happened to be passing through the same Sacramento airport as the Mariners — Seattle had just finished a series against the Athletics, and the Diamondbacks were just arriving. The Mariners’ charter held for Suárez and his family to collect their things at baggage claim, and as the Suárez clan boarded the Seattle express, the players cheered happily.

Suárez didn’t hit especially well in his 53 regular-season games with the Mariners, batting .189 with 13 homers, struggles that continued into this postseason; he had a .162 average for October going into Game 5. In pregame work throughout this slump, Suárez had focused on driving the ball through the middle of the field, but without results.

Dominguez threw three straight sweepers, trying to get Suárez to hack at something outside of the strike zone; Suárez took one for a strike, fouled off another. When Dominguez fired a 97 mph fastball, Suárez fouled it off. The count was 2-2.

Bryce Miller had been in the clubhouse when Raleigh tied the score with his home run, and returned to the dugout, where he was standing next to Logan Gilbert as they watched Suárez’s at-bat. “Hey,” Gilbert said dryly to Miller, “all I’m asking for is a home run.”

Dominguez’s next pitch was 98 miles mph, on the outer third of the plate, and Suárez leaned into his swing, aiming to take the ball to right field. Contact. The Jays’ Nathan Lukes ran back to the warning track, head tilted upward to track the fly and then peeled off; there was nothing he could do. The home run landed three rows into the stands, and there was nothing Barger could do.

Suárez lifted both hands toward the sky, as if to accept a gift, and jogged slowly around the bases. T-Mobile Park, Wilson said later, was as loud as he had ever heard it. Rodriguez ran onto the field, briefly forgetting where he was and what he needed to do; when he regained some equilibrium, he raced back to the dugout, grabbed the Mariners’ trident and handed it to Suárez, who hoisted it into the air and yelled, sharing the moment with the crowd.

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Not long after the Mariners’ closed out the Game 5 victory, Suárez slipped into a side door of the interview room with his two young daughters, Nicolle and Melanie, guiding with a hand on the shoulder of each. They had flown in from Florida late Thursday night, arriving at 1 a.m., and now they were with him as he met spoke with the media.

A reporter asked the girls what was the best thing about their Dad. Nicolle spoke up. “Doing the home run,” she said.

On this day, two home runs. The girls are flying back to Miami on a redeye tonight, Eugenio said as he walked out of the interview room, because Nicolle has a presentation in school Monday, while Eugenio is headed to Toronto. That is where the Mariners need one more win to reach the World Series for the first time in the history of the franchise.

“I just feel so grateful right now,” Suárez said, “and feel so good because we’re going to Toronto with an opportunity in front of us to go to a World Series.”

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With the bases loaded, Eugenio Suárez’s grand slam in the eighth sealed it for the Seattle Mariners, lifting them to a 6-2 win Friday and a 3-2 lead in the American League Championship Series.

Seattle jumped out to a 2-0 series lead on the road before Toronto battled back to even the series on Thursday.

The Mariners regained the advantage when Cal Raleigh hit a clutch home run in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game, setting the stage for Suárez’s grand slam to seal the win.

Suárez went 2-for-3 with two home runs and five RBIs, while Raleigh added a RBI on a solo homer, finishing 2-for-4 at the plate.

Mariners ace Bryce Miller got the start, striking out four while allowing four hits, two walks and one earned run over four innings.

Fans erupted over Suárez’s grand slam that secured the Mariners’ series lead.

Suárez put the Mariners on the board with a 396-foot home run in the second inning, giving Seattle a 1-0 lead over the Blue Jays.

In the top of the fifth, a double from Blue Jays’ George Springer brought home Addison Barger from second to even the score at 1-1.

Alejandro Kirk followed with a double in the sixth, setting up a RBI from Ernie Clement that gave the Blue Jays their first lead of the game, 2-1.

Raleigh delivered the game-tying home run in the eighth, a deep shot that just cleared the wall to even the score at two. With the bases loaded later in the inning, Suárez launched an opposite-field grand slam to send the crowd into a frenzy and give Seattle a 6-2 lead and the win.Â

While the Mariners and Blue Jays battle in the ALCS, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers are facing off in the National League Championship Series to determine who advances to the World Series.

Los Angeles currently leads that series 3-0 and will look to complete the sweep Friday night.

The series between the Mariners and Blue Jays will shift back to Toronto for a decisive Game 6 on Monday, with first pitch scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET.

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Love him or hate him, nobody can deny that Luis Suarez is one of the greatest center forwards in soccer…