Luis Suarez Banned For 4 Months And 9 Games

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The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has reached a decision in the case related to Luis Suárez of Uruguay following an incident that occurred during the FIFA World Cup™ match between Italy and Uruguay played on 24 June 2014. The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has decided that:

· The player Luis Suárez is regarded as having breached art. 48 par. 1 lit. d of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (FDC) (assault), and art. 57 of the FDC (an act of unsporting behaviour towards another player).

· The player Luis Suárez is to be suspended for nine (9) official matches. The first match of this suspension is to be served in the upcoming FIFA World Cup™ fixture between Colombia and Uruguay on 28 June 2014. The remaining match suspensions shall be served in Uruguay’s next FIFA World Cup match(es), as long as the team qualifies, and/or in the representative team’s subsequent official matches in accordance with art. 38 par. 2a) of the FDC.

· The player Luis Suárez is banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) for a period of four (4) months in accordance with art. 22 of the FDC.

· A stadium ban is pronounced against the player Luis Suárez in accordance with art. 21 of the FDC as follows: the player Luis Suárez is prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium during the period of the ban (point 3). The player Luis Suárez is prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium in which the representative team of Uruguay is playing while he has to serve the nine-match suspension (point 2).

· The player Luis Suárez is ordered to pay a fine in the amount of CHF 100,000.

Well that tells me all I need to know about FIFA. They don’t like ratings, or stories, or a little competitive biting. Pussification of Soccer. And I get that it was technically illegal under the actual rules but it was entertaining. It’s the number 1 memory I will take away from this World Cup. You want soccer to get popular around the world? You let people bite each other because you can never have enough biting in sports. It puts the asses in the seats. Luis Suarez should be applauded, not banned, shame on you FIFA, you stuck up snobs.

PS

Just had a moment of brilliance. We start a soccer league in America and let Luis Suarez play in it, skirt right around these stupid rules.

Double PS

Wouldn’t the appropriate punishment here been to pull Luis Suarez’s teeth out and make him get dentures, then every time he plays he’s not allowed to have his teeth in? Or is that too outside the box for the idiots at FIFA?