Thursday, August 14, 2014

Luis Suarez: Ban Upheld


Back in June 2014, Luis Suarez competed in the FIFA World Cup with the Uruguay National Team. During its match against Italy on June 24, 2014, Luis Suarez committed an unpunished foul against Giorgio Chiellini. He ran behind Chiellini and then lunged at his back to bite the Italian. Chiellini then elbowed Suarez in the face, which made it appear slightly as if Chiellini fouled Suarez because the Uruguayian player fell down holding his teeth. When Chiellini pulled his shirt down, teethmarks could easily be seen in his back. Uruguay won the match 1-0 and knocked Italy out of the World Cup. Uruguay then lost to Colombia four days later.

On June 25, 2014, FIFA began investigating the incident. The next day, FIFA announced its decision to suspend Luis Suarez from nine FIFA international games and gave him a four-month ban from anything football-related.

Just a few weeks later, Barcelona acquired Luis Suarez from Liverpool. In order to have one of their stars for the full La Liga season, Barcelona appealed Suarez's four-month ban.

This morning, the Court of Arbitration of Sport rejected Barcelona's appeal and upheld FIFA's decision, but Suarez has been cleared to train with Barcelona in preparation for when he can play again.

From the day of the incident until now, I still believe Suarez deserved a more severe punishment than he received. There's no excuse for biting another player. It is absolutely despicable!

The World Cup bite was not even his first offense. He has bitten two others players!

The first and second punishments have not persuaded Suarez to stop biting his opponents, but maybe this third ban will make him think three times as hard about using his teeth. Who knows; we shall see.
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