Patrice Evra Congratulates Luis Suarez on Golden Shoe Win with Instagram Post

Patrice Evra congratulated Barcelona star Luis Suarez after the striker picked up the European Golden Shoe award on Thursday. 

Evra took to Instagram to praise his old rival:

Per Sport, he wrote, "On my Instagram there's only love and never hate." He added:

In 2011, when Evra and Suarez were at Manchester United and Liverpool, respectively, the Uruguayan was banned for eight matches for racially abusing the Frenchman.

Per ITV (h/t the Telegraph's Mark Ogden), ahead of the 2015 UEFA Champions League final—in which Evra's Juventus met Suarez's Barcelona—the left-back asserted the striker was still to personally apologise to him.

Per BBC Sport, Suarez issued a "general apology" at the time but did not say sorry to Evra himself or accept wrongdoing on his part, and the 29-year-old also avoided shaking hands with him in United's first clash with the Reds after the incident.

Nevertheless, Evra shook his hand in the Champions League final—as he had done when United subsequently met Liverpool—and the 35-year-old also voted for Suarez for an individual honour in 2014, according to Samuel Luckhurst of the Manchester Evening News:

Suarez netted 40 goals in La Liga last season to win the award ahead of Gonzalo Higuain and Cristiano Ronaldo.