In his first years of sports training, he
demonstrated a change of pace and a great ability to define, attracting the attention of scouts at the national level. That was how Deportivo Cali gave him the opportunity to belong to the quarry and later to make his debut in Colombian professional soccer at the age of 17, in 2009.
First steps
The good numbers and the talent he showed in the sugar team prevented Luis Muriel from playing for several seasons in the Colombian league.
The player from Santo Tomás only played 11 games in the national income.
In 2009 he played a league game and two cup games, scoring 2 goals in the last competition, for a scoring average of 0.66. In 2010 their numbers improved dramatically. In 6 months the player played 10 games in the national league, obtaining his first hat-trick and achieving the modest sum of 9 goals and 5 assists;