Luis Suarez
For a man so talented, Luis Suarez is a polarising character. His career ,riddled with misdemeanors and achievements alike, makes Eric Cantano look like Pope John Paul.
Suarez once headbutted a referee when he was 16, he gathered a plethora of yellow and red cards early in his career, twice handled the ball which directly effected the falling out of Mansfield Town and Ghana from the FA cup and World cup respectively (causing African Press to name him Public Enemy Number 1 in 2010), once found guilty of racial abuse, thrice involved in biting incidents. That looks more like a rap sheet for a convict than one for 2015/2016's La Liga Pichichi award winner.
Suarez has won the golden boot in all 3 European leagues he has played in, many other accolades follow which make his football crimes very tolerable, mildly acceptable if one is a cynic. Suarez is the highest goal scorer in Uruguay's history, he scored 20 goals in 15 games, the shortest in English Premier League history. He is the only man to top both the goalscorers' and assist charts simultaneously at the end of a La Liga season and to do it during the epoch of the Messi-Ronaldo duopoly makes it all the more impressive.
It's easy to overlook such phenomenal players while still under the hypnotic delirium of witnessing Messi and Ronaldo but even when we can force ourselves to cast our gaze upon the Uruguayan magician, his image is forever tainted by the unpopular goal line handball clearance against Ghana and that sociopathic tendency to bite "when things aren't going right".
Perhaps Suarez is best described by Liverpool's owner John W. Henry, "He is a good person 99% of the time, and 1% of the time his desire to win overcomes everything else."
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