Suarez gets 4-month ban from football for biting

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Suarez gets 4-month ban from football for biting

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Luis Suarez

FIFA banned Uruguay striker Luis Suarez from all football activities for four months on Thursday for biting an opponent at the World Cup, a punishment that rules him out of the rest of the tournament and the start of the upcoming Premier League season.

The ban also covers Uruguay’s next nine international games, which goes beyond the next four months and rules him out of next year’s Copa America. It will likely carry over to qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup.

FIFA also fined the Liverpool striker $112,000.

Uruguay’s football federation said it plans an appeal to FIFA before the team’s Round of 16 game against Colombia on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro.

Suarez bit the shoulder of Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay’s 1-0 win in the group stage on Tuesday, but escaped unpunished as the referee did not see the incident.

“Such behavior cannot be tolerated on any football pitch and in particular not at a FIFA World Cup, when the eyes of millions of people are on the stars on the field,” Claudio Sulser, chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, said in a statement.

Wilmar Valdez, Uruguay football federation president, said it was “a severe punishment.”

“It feels like Uruguay has been thrown out of the World Cup,” Valdez said in Rio.

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This is the third time Suarez has been banned for biting an opponent after similar incidents with Ajax in the Dutch league and Liverpool. He was given a 10-match ban by the Premier League for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in April 2013.

“Hopefully he will realize now that behavior of this type will not be tolerated under any circumstances,” said FIFA Vice President Jim Boyce of Northern Ireland.

By banning Suarez from all football activities, FIFA also prohibited him from entering a stadium or team hotel at the World Cup. It also stops him from even training with Liverpool until the ban ends in late October.

“He cannot be actively involved” with a club, FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer said.

Suarez and the Uruguay football federation can appeal the sanctions, though Liverpool could not be formally involved in any legal challenge, Fischer said.

The four-month ban includes Liverpool’s first three Champions League group-stage games in the five-time European champion’s return after a five-year absence. Suarez will also miss the first nine matches of the Premier League.

Suarez would still be allowed to transfer to a different club during the ban, but would not be able to play for a new club until the sanction ends, Fischer said. He has been linked to a move to Barcelona.

AP



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