Luis Suarez's World Cup is over after Fifa handed him a nine match ban from international football and four-month ban from all 'football activity' for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini.
Italy's defender Giorgio Chiellini (left) shows an apparent bitemark and Uruguay forward Luis Suarez (right) holds his teeth after the incident. Source: AFP
FIFA has banned Uruguay's Luis Suarez from football for four months for a third biting incident, meaning he will miss 13 games for Liverpool and the rest of the World Cup.
A disciplinary panel gathered evidence against Suarez, who was shown sinking his teeth into Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during a match on Wednesday.
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The 27-year-old player has been banned for nine international matches, a record punishment for an incident at the showcase event, and Uruguayan journalists on Twitter said the national federation was considering withdrawing from the tournament.
FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer said the ban does not include transfer activity, meaning Liverpool are free to sell him during the upcoming window, and added Uruguay could appeal.
Is the Suarez ban of four months, including 13 Liverpool games, fair?
Liverpool kick off their EPL season on August 16 at home against Southampton and face Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Everton as part of the nine league games he will miss. The ban period includes one League Cup match and three Champions League ties.
Liverpool CEO Ian Ayre said in a statement: "Liverpool Football Club will wait until we have seen and had time to review the FIFA Disciplinary Committee report before making any further comment."
Uruguay striker Luis Suarez has been suspended for four months, which includes 13 Liverpool games. Source: Getty Images
In explaining the severity of the ban, Claudio Sulser, chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, said: "Such behaviour 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."
Uruguay's Luis Suarez looks out from his hotel in Natal, Brazil on Thursday as he awaited the decision. Source: AP
The incident occurred during Wednesday's Group D game, which Uruguay won to qualify for the last 16.
Uruguay have three days to appeal against the decision.
The previous record World Cup ban was the eight-match suspension handed to Italy defender Mauro Tassotti in 1994.
Tassotti was punished for elbowing Spain's Luis Enrique in the face in the 1994 USA World Cup quarter-final and banned retrospectively on video evidence after Hungarian referee Sandor Puhl missed the original incident.
Earlier, as Suarez, banned twice before for biting opposing players, awaited the outcome of the disciplinary hearing, Uruguay's President Jose Mujica rallied his country to the footballer's cause.
"I did not see him bite anyone," Mujica told reporters. "But they give each other so many kicks and blows and normally they put up with it."
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Uruguay Football Association chief Wilmar Valdez presented evidence on Suarez's behalf to a FIFA panel in Rio.
"We believe that there is not sufficient evidence to truly sanction Luis," Valdez told Uruguayan television.
"It has to be clear and on the video that FIFA gave us we think that it is not really clear," Valdez said.
"We are confident that our defence will obtain results," he added.
Indeed, The Guardian reports that the Uruguay FA suspects that the images of Chiellini's injuries were photoshopped.
"If every player starts showing the injuries he suffers and they open inquiries for them everything will be way too complicated in the future," Suarez's lawyer Alejandro Balbi said prior to the meeting. "We're going to use all the arguments possible so that Luis gets out in the best possible way."
On Uruguay radio, he added: "We don't have any doubts that this has happened because it's Suárez involved and secondly because Italy have been eliminated.
"There's a lot of pressure from England and Italy. There is a possibility that they ban him, because there are precedents, but we are convinced that it was an absolutely casual play, because if Chiellini can show a scratch on one shoulder, Suárez can show a bruised and an almost closed eye."
Giorgio Chiellini says he expects Luis Suarez to escape punishment because FIFA will want the star player to remain in the tournament, while Suarez has brushed off the incident, saying 'these things happen.'
FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer said earlier the disciplinary committee wanted to reach a decision on Suarez's case "as early as possible." Uruguay are due to face Colombia in the last 16 on Saturday. Fischer would not speculate on any possible punishment, although she said Suarez's previous offences could be taken into account. "The disciplinary committee can take all elements into account as it deems necessary," she said.
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The 27-year-old, who plays in the English Premier League for Liverpool, is one of the world's biggest stars, and could theoretically be banned for up to 24 games under FIFA rules. Fischer declined to say whether any potential punishment could extend to club as well as international football.
"It's the disciplinary committee which decides the scope of any potential sanctions," she said.
Suarez has already received long bans for biting during his club career as well as racially abusing Manchester United player Patrice Evra during a game in 2011.
The latest flashpoint occurred near the end of Tuesday's Group D game in Natal.
Italy's defender Giorgio Chiellini (C) shows an apparent bitemark. Source: AFP
Replays showed Suarez biting Chiellini's shoulder in an off-the-ball incident.
Chiellini angrily remonstrated with Mexican referee Marco Rodriguez, pulling his shirt off his shoulder to show red marks on his neck.
Afterwards, he told Italian television: "He bit me, it's clear, I still have the mark." Suarez sought to play down the incident in comments to Uruguayan television, claiming Chiellini had barged him.
Luis Suarez reacts after the incident as Giorgio Chiellini holds his shoulder. Source: AFP
"There are things that happen on the pitch and you should not make such a big deal out of them," Suarez said.
However the damning video evidence has drawn almost blanket condemnation.
Former England captain Alan Shearer, working in Brazil for the BBC, said FIFA should impose a lengthy global ban.
"I would give him a worldwide ban for as long as I could," Shearer said.
"It's not the first time, it's not the second time, it's the third time — to actually bite someone on a football pitch in front of millions. It's unacceptable."
Key sponsors are anxiously watching the inquiry.
Football fans and commentators have called on FIFA to throw the book at Uruguay's repeat culinary offender Luis Suarez after he bit Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup overnight, his third such instance of biting in a game.
Online gambling firm 888poker said it was "reviewing" its links to Suarez after the incident.
"Following recent allegations made against Luis Suarez, we are reviewing our relationship with him. We will not tolerate unsporting behaviour," the Gibraltar-based poker site said in a Twitter statement.
Equipment maker Adidas said it was also monitoring FIFA's investigation into the bite during Tuesday's World Cup Group D game between Uruguay and Italy.
"Adidas is aware of the issue involving Luis Suarez. We await FIFA's full investigation into this matter and will respond accordingly," said the German company in a statement.
Uruguay's forward Luis Suarez. Source: AFP
Suarez has twice been banned since 2010 for biting opponents.
With the Suarez controversy dominating the off-field headlines, it was left to Argentina captain Lionel Messi to put the focus back on football.
Messi scored two goals — taking his tournament tally to four in three games — as Argentina beat Nigeria 3-2 to finish top of Group F.
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