FIFA World Cup: 'Not sure when Luis Suarez will be fit’

Belo Horizonte: Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez does not know when forward Luis Suarez, working hard on his fitness after knee cartilage surgery, will be ready to play again, he said on Wednesday. “He’s responding very well and his spirits couldn’t be better. He’s working full out on his physical fitness,” Tabarez told a news conference after Uruguay’s first practice at their training base near Belo Horizonte.

“As we have no set deadlines, I don’t know if we’ll have him for the first match, for the second, for the third. If it were up to me, Suarez would play tomorrow.” Suarez told his Twitter followers that his left knee is recovering well from his keyhole surgery on May 22 and he is in a good frame of mind.