I was in Germany for the last couple of weeks and I caught World Cup fever while I was there. (I saw a public match at WM Wohnzimmer too, it was awesome.) As you’ve undoubtedly heard if you have even a passing interest in this post, Uruguay’s Luis Suarez bit Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder during a match on June 24. Some people think the bite may have cost Italy the game. Italian players were protesting to the referee for not penalizing Suarez when Uruguay’s Diego Godín scored the match’s single goal just two minutes after the bite. Others believe the Italian players should not have been distracted afterwards.
Although Suarez has two other known biting incidents on the field and was seen clutching his teeth immediately following the incident, he denied having bitten Chiellini. He said after the bite that “These situations happen on the field. I had contact with his shoulder, chest against shoulder and I got a knock to the eye – nothing more.” Officials didn’t buy that explanation and Suarez was banned by FIFA for four months. (Apparently he can get around the ban by transferring to another team, however.)
Now that a week has passed Suarez is admitting that he bit Chiellini. He wrote the following on Twitter:
My apologies to Chiellini: pic.twitter.com/CvfkkjxzlM
— Luis Suarez (@luis16suarez) June 30, 2014
Chiellini retweeted Suarez’s apology and said the incident was forgotten:
.@luis16suarez It's all forgotten. I hope FIFA will reduce your suspension.
— Giorgio Chiellini (@chiellini) June 30, 2014
That was more gracious than I would have been about it, but I’m not a professional sports player.
I understand colliding into people during a futbol/soccer match, but biting? That’s a deliberate, nasty act. This is THIRD time this guy has bitten an opponent, and it points to a pattern of horrible behavior. Of course he should have to pay for that with a ban and lost income. I question whether Suarez’s apology is about rescuing his career rather than caring whether he harmed another player.
Suarez is a KNOWN douchebag, and a FILTHY player, anything goes with him, pushing hitting, hand to the ball, biting, diving.. None of it is sincere coming from him at this point.
+ 1, I’m sure he won’t bite again but everything else is up for grabs.
I saw the match when he bit into Ivanovic’s arm. The man needs help. Plain and simple.
@QQ, he does all that crap and it puts a negative spotlight on him and football. Then he says that the English media is out to persecute him. Thing is, he’s a very skilled player. He creates goals and scores them too. And he wants to return to Spain to play for my team FC Barcelona? God I hope that doesn’t happen.
@Rice
Much as the British media can be brutal – and *were* brutal after the Ivanovic bite – I agree with you that the persecution is Suarez’s own fantasy and deflection. He was voted player of the year by the Sportswriters Association last year, even after Ivanovic and the ban. Hardly a persecution.
This apology is B.S, just like all of his other ones. The rumor is that Barca put pressure on him to apologize (this happens behind the scenes a lot), so it would look like he’s contrite, but coming a week later no one in their right mind believes it. He’s done this three times before, head butted a ref when he was 15, not to mention other unsportsmanlike tactics that QQ mentioned and still no one around him is making him seek help for his aggression problems. It’s dangerous and this behavior doesn’t belong in any sport. A family member of mine got a 5 year ban in the 80s for an awful act of violence, and it was something he only did once under extreme provocation (but no excuses, still horrible and shouldn’t have happened). Suarez is getting away with the same violent act three times with light bans. Shame how things have changed for the worse in FIFA.
Suarez is such a dirty player and has said racist things in the past.. This apology seems like a load of bull, he just wants to go to Barca..
biting doesn’t “happen.” kicking or hitting someone while you’re playing “happens.” not biting. this guy needs to be kept away from other players, he clearly chooses not to exercise any self-control.
+100000
Preach. He needs to be banned for life.
Thank you! Ban for life. I don’t understand how the same violent act can keep getting light punishment. Because you can’t accidentally bite someone, you have to deliberately open your mouth and do it — there’s premeditation to it. The past three bans are nothing really in footballing terms; it’s even shorter than coming back from a bad injury. And to think some former footballers think it’s too harsh.
I wholeheartedly agree. However, that will never happen as long as Sepp I-wish-to-see-football-on-Mars Blatter continues to be FIFA President. FIFA only cares about one thing: profit. Suarez scores goals for Liverpool and any other team on which he plays. Fans pay a sh*tload of money to see him and buy merchandise. When teams do well, FIFA does well. It feels like the buck stops with them.
@Rice,
You’re right, of course, about FIFA under Blatter (seriously, when will he retire, he barely moves) but it’s still infuriating. They need to stop acting as though Suarez and any other player is irreplaceable, because millions of teenage boys are waiting for their chance to take their spot, if given the opportunity. Legends in this sport come and go in every generation, and football remains what it is without them. I just hate how this attitude spreads, because some of these guys act like anything goes as long as they’re good at technical aspects of the game. That’s why I didn’t like it when many coaches in EPL in interviews following the Ivanovic incident said that the punishment was too harsh. It was annoying to hear that “he’s such a good player” excuse. So if he was bad/mediocre/average/in a slump, then it wouldn’t be too harsh?
But you’re right, as long as Blatter rules the nest, things won’t change, but it’s just sad.
Suarez is a nasty player, a biter, and an unrepentant racist. When you’re a good athlete however, apparently all of these things can be forgiven.
I saw this video this morning and I couldn’t believe this guy hasn’t been banned from football: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJcx8tVitXo
M thanks for posting that heinous video, he should not be allowed on the field!
Chiellini’s response is incredibly gracious. Even if secretly he’s furious, he took the high road!
Guy’s an animal. This is assault! sadly, though, with football, it’s not surprising.
Noooo, Giorgio! Just say, “Apology accepted.” Don’t say that you hope his suspension will be reduced!!
I agree. I think he should be banned for much longer, if not forever. Most sports have a “three strikes, you’re out” policy, and if Suarez weren’t such a lucrative player, I feel like the sentence would have followed that philosophy.
With this and the concussion debate, FIFA really needs to reconsider its stance on the safety and sanity of its players.
he is just nasty. I don’t buy his apology – he should really be in therapy.
Alte Försterei! Alte Försterei! Alte alte alte Försterei! Good for you, CB! 🙂
It was awesome, I couldn’t believe how nice they had that place set up with the sofas and coordinating lamps. I was in the stadium seats though.
In which city is that?
@Claire Berlin
i hope you liked it in germany. Alte Försterei, it looks really great!
Grüße aus Deutschland 🙂
Barca made him? Apologise, not bite!
Nice to see some grace from Chiellini – not always enough of that in football. I feel a bit sorry for Liverpool – even though they are my most hated team! – because they did stand by Suarez after the last bitey-bitey debacle. Let’s hope for their sake that Barca are at least offering a decent sum for him, subject to the right degree of contrition.
It’s funny that Barca supposedly made him apologize. Are they planning to rehab his image, then? At this point where their own image is not in such good shape? Hmmm.
If Suarez really does come to La Liga, I dare him to take a bite out of the Real Madrid defenders, most especially Pepe. He will find his teeth scattered on the pitch.
Btw, Chiellini is the best. It is rare to find such a nice, level-headed, and educated man in football, most especially on the back line.
LOL, I’d love to see him try that stuff with Pepe or Sergio!
Barca tends to go into obsessive image control for their players, more so in Guardiola years, but by looks of Suarez this legacy is still present now. I used to work in Barcelona for a sports weekly and they stopped a lot of stories coming out about their management, staff, and players; stuff that had actual proof and not rumors. The Barca bodyguards gave us interviews about all kinds of cover ups and other stuff that wasn’t physical protection but what their jobs required them to do but we weren’t allowed to publish it, and a year later their story appeared in Marca. I don’t understand it but they pull all kinds of strings to protect their players, stuff that other clubs don’t even try to do.
LOL that’s really funny. But in all seriousness a lot if the la liga players won’t stand for Suarez and his mess. Plus I think Suarez knows who to mess with. Notice in the Chelsea game he bit Ivanovic, not Ashley Cole or John Terry ? He knows what would happen if he had bitten one of those players. They wouldn’t stand for it.
@drea – I think his buy-out clause is huge – £50 or £60m – so presumably Barca (and/or Madrid) will both be looking to make sure it’s money well spent?
@Sixer: My big fear is/was that he’s coming to Madrid, but it looks like it’s Barca (pheuf). And yes, you’re right, they’re going to make sure he’s worth that money… but it’ll have to be in goals because his image is crap right now. Can’t imagine his shirt is going to sell all that well among the blaugrana faithful.
What intrigues me about the Barca transfer is that they’ve always been so, um, holier-than-thou. But suddenly, they’ve got an airline logo on their kit (remember all that stuff about the Unicef logo?), they’re barely scraping through the scandal involving Neymar’s transfer, and yet they still want to take Suarez, currently one of the designated villains (and deservedly so) of football. I mean, talk about a reversal in image.
@ drea – Yes to absolutely all of that! I think you are safe: he’ll go to Barca if they’ll have him. Isn’t his wife from there?
@Sixer: I think she’s Uruguayan but her family immigrated to Barcelona when she was a teenager. One of the tactics his PR guys have been using is to put their love story out there–how he became a footballer so he could follow her to Europe and all that. It’s very sweet, and it almost makes me soften towards him a little, but in the end all I want to do is ask her, “So, does he bite you too?”
@ drea
You just made me laugh out loud!
“(…) but in the end all I want to do is ask her, ‘So, does he bite you too?’”
Honestly, I’m curious about that, too. I mean, a sexy bite during sexy times is one thing…but he really looks like he’s about to take a chunk off of the victim’s body so…kinda scary, non? To make matters worse, he has really big teeth!
Since I’m a crass bitch, I also thought about him saying “I’m gonna eat you out” but, unfortunately for her, he’d mean that LITERALLY.
I’m horrible, I know. I’ll see myself out now.
Considering that Giorgio has now publicly forgiven Luis for biting him and said in a tweet he hopes the suspension is reduced. It does look like Luis has more backing for a appeal. Maybe Luis is sincere, but I am always cynical about people making a big deal about apologizing over Twitter or other social media. Seems self serving and not sincere. Why tell the whole world?
Maybe because in this case his actions were not only seen as an insult to the other dudr but to the entire sports team and image of soccer. So a more public apology may seem fit for an outraged public.
How will this particular apology be ever seen as sincere, whether out in social media or not, when it happened almost a week after the incident? At least when he bit Ivanovic, he made a show of apologizing sooner than that. One of the first things in PR is that if you publicly messed up, look contrite right away, not wait until your future club puts pressure to do so. He even denied it at first and then, once the ban is issued, he is suddenly all sorry. Bad PR move, should’ve played the sorry card sooner if he wanted a lighter sentence. Still, how sorry are you really if you keep doing it over and over? Chiellini is wrong in tweeting that he hopes Suarez’s suspension is reduced. Things like that should be severely punished regardless of whether the perpetrator is sorry or not because apology doesn’t erase what you did.
Fun fact: statistically, you are more likely to be bitten by Luis Suarez than a shark!
Ha!
If you actually read his latest statement he never says he bit anybody. He contends what he has all along that as a result of the collision his teeth came in contact with the other player.
When the play is viewed in slow motion Suarez can clearly be seen moving his head down and biting the other player. The player reacts by jerking his left arm and shoulder up and back striking Suarez in the teeth. That is why Suarez teeth hurt.
He deserves the suspension and the sanctions should include his receiving some type of therapy because this is the third or fourth biting incident. This was outside the bounds of normal play. He assaulted another player. If he did this on the street he could be arrested.
I agree, he is a cheater and he did it on purpose, he was looking for a reaction from Chiellini to create some confusion and possibly another red card for Italy. He succeeded: his team won the game, he is celebrated as a national hero in his country, he will move to Barcelona as per his wish, he will sign some brand new contracts, and this is it.
Let’s go USA!!!!
Sorry I know that’s not what this post is about, but we play Belgium today and they’re undefeated.
This is one of the weirder stories I’ve heard…
Really. What is he, four years old? A grown man biting people? Ugh.
Don’t think it’s sincere and it took long enough, but Chiellini’s responses to this incident have been gracious and classy.
Barcelona is still interested in Suarez.
Exactly,maybe he apologized only because Barcelona asked him to do it as a condition for signing the contract.
He won’t be losing any income. Liverpool will be paying him even he doesn’t play a single match for them.
So much drama in this World Cup!
This guy should be treated for anger management issues or whatever. This is his third bite! And to think he waited several days to apologise makes me think he was pressured to do it rather than a sincere act of contrition.
In other news. Has anyone seen the Brazil-Chile match? I wasn’t rooting for anyone but I thought I was going to have a heart attack. So much tension on those PKs!
That was heartbreaking. I was gutted for Chile.
Chile deserved to win that match, they played their hearts out.
Most people here in Italy were (are) pissed because when the bite happened (and it happened: you could see the mark on Chiellini’s shoulder by distance ON the tv) the Italian team was playing with only 10 player, after a dismission which was clearly exaggerated (Marchisio basically hit another player during an action, involuntary, and was kicked out immediately) – instead Suarez got NOTHING, not even a yellow card!
I’ve seen the match (hell, it’s basically impossible not to in Italy XD), and while the Italian team played horribly (really BAD), Uruguay as a whole was playing a lot more dirty, with tons of fouls and misconduct strangely not seen by the referee. There are been talks – like during every World Cup – that some South American teams have been “helped” in order to avoid popular potests about all the money spent (ex. Brazil).
PS: the referee’s surname is Moreno….like the one during Italy-South Korea in 2002 XD
“There are been talks – like during every World Cup – that some South American teams have been “helped” in order to avoid popular potests about all the money spent (ex. Brazil).”
These are just rumours really based on freaking nothing. It was started by a very specific type of press who loves stirring sh*t up. I highly doubt there’ll be any protests if Brazil loses — much on the contrary, there’s a large part of the (right-winged) media and voters WISHING for that to happen, that Brazil loses (because then the current president’s — Dilma Rousseff’s — popularity will drop and there’d be a bigger chance for their candidate, Aécio Neves win the next presidential election).
Protests have already happened — AGAINST the World Cup taking place here. I saw them. These people aren’t necessarily to be happy if Brazil wins since they never wanted the Cup here in the first place!
People here have been criticizing the Brazilian national team to no end. And many think Brazil won’t be one of the finalists. There’s an absolutely enormous pressure on Brazilian players and you can see how nervous they look before every match — there’s this “obligation” to win since the Cup is being held here and some players are simply not dealing well with that (especially captain Thiago Silva).
These conspiracy theories piss me off because there’s ALWAYS been bad referees wherever the World Cup is taking place. But because this time the Cup is taking place here in South America, of course they are going to favour our teams. Of course we’re ALL corrupted. Please.
Blame the bad referees on FIFA’s politics, not on the guy’s last name being “Moreno”. Seriously? One of the worst referees during this World Cup was the well-regarded Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli — he blew it during that match between Spain and Holland.
@Eve: as I said in the first comment, EVERY World Cup have this kind of conspirations, and politics play a HUGE part in many countries were soccer is SRS business (here in Italy, is worse than a religion: I remember the 1994 final and feeling everybody was crazy) – the rumour about SA teams helped in order to give a good rep to all the money and sacrifices spent in Brazil is not new, is actually one of the first (even before the Cup actually started someone speculated it could happen). Personally I don’t believe it, I reported it for people who wished to understand more about this mess and how soccer is viewed.
I do believe, however, that if nothing happens in Brazil after the World Cup, hell will be raised for the Olympic Games, which are much more important…
European teams “were” favoured/most watched in the past because they were, objectively, the strongest, thanks also to a very long tradition of soccer (South American teams too, hell Brazil is still considered one of the best!): some fans still don’t understand that soccer today is very different from the past (and yes, I put Italians into this group – the Italian team is a pale shadow of the one who was able to win three World Cup, and the fourth one has been one of the most idiotic). Today I think African and SA teams are some of the most interesting because most of their players are in the strongest teams, and FIFA isn’t so stupid and know this.
About the game….my comment about “Moreno” was a joke who didn’t translate well – this referee wasn’t too bad, but I think he did pass a lot of fouls to Uruguay (not just Suarez’s bite). I haven’t see all the games this year, so I can’t do all the comparisons. I have seen some people here who did the connections between the surnames, and it is indeed funny to me.
Marchisio’s expulsion to me was definetily NOT fair: he is a pretty chill player from his part, and stomping on soccer happens all the time. His action to me seemed mild and not volutary, more like a mistake, and the fact that the referee was in front of them, he could see it easily (there was no mess immediately after, both players were calm) and give at most a yellow card, the first one: instead, he just put out the red one immediately, without even listening. Italy played an horrible game and deserved to lose, but these two actions (Marchisio’s red and Suarez) are the main reason why Uruguay won.
Well, Theuth…in the end, the joke was on him (Suarez). His absence may have cost Uruguay’s spot among the quarter-finalists.
P.S.: I don’t know if we have to agree to disagree on Marchisio being sent off since I said that I myself would have given him just the yellow card (it’s just that I understand the referee’s decision as well). The journalists over ESPN Brasil were 50/50.
P.P.S.: I actually think the Olympics will be relatively calm (compared to the protests before this World Cup). I’m thinking they (government) will put the f*cking army on the streets to guarantee the tourists’s safety (something they’ve already done at the Pan American Games in 2007). And most Brazilians know our athletes don’t stand a chance against American, European and Chinese ones (with the exception of football, volleyball and some swimmers). The expectations, I mean, won’t be as high as having Brazil winning a World Cup. Here, football is more important than all the other sports combined. I repeat: the players are under an absurd amount of scrutiny and pressure.
@Eve: a yellow card would have been nothing, to be honest, and while (to me) too hard it would have been still fair (after all, he could have still played the game). But a red one on an action like this…I don’t know, it looked SO wrong on the moment, coupled with Suarez (where you could see the bite on the shoulder) it seemed like a gift to Uruguay, who played 11 against 10 for half of the game.
Damn, World Cup is always a mess here.
Let’s hope so for the Olympics. I actually look forward for the games in Brazil, and army or not the government had to sustain 2 big tournaments in so few time, it’s incredible there aren’t been big scandals till now (I think about the Expo, next year, and just weep).
@ Theuth:
Just to end the convo about Marchisio…some journalists over ESPN Brasil (the only channel I watch because they’re the least biased) pointed out that that was an “orange card” type of situation (if there was ever such thing). It wasn’t hard enough for a red card, nor as ordinary as one for the yellow.
Again, in my opinion, the referee should have sent Suarez off as well. But I’m ambivalent when it comes to Marchisio’s situation.
P.S.: Damn it, Argentina just scored! I was kinda hoping Switzerland would win this one.
By the way, Marchisio was fairly sent off. He stomped the other player’s shin and that happened right in front of the referee (who was two feet away tops). He certainly wanted to hit the player and not the ball, that was away from them at that point.
*I* would have given just the yellow card, but the red one didn’t seem absurd to me. The referee’s mistake was not sending Suarez off as well.
One last thing: traditionally (and I know that because I have seen more than three World Cups) it’s the European teams that are favoured, not the South American (or African and Asian) ones. FIFA would LOSE too much money if they didn’t have a good number of European teams among the 16 finals. Believe me, Blatter is probably thrilled right now that there will be a match between France and Germany. And they would love if the final match was between an European team and a South American one (in that case, likely to be Argentina).
Evelet – that sounds like Britain, which was setting itself up to do so much self-loathing and politicking over the 2012 Olympics. Somehow, there was a miracle and it not only went well, but we all had a great time. Most unlike us.
I concur re: FIFA, rules and internal politics. These days, I pay as little attention to football as the Sixlets will allow. The referees are perfectly capable (and authoritative) in rugby union, so I’m enjoying that much more these days.
@ Sixer:
This World Cup has been considered a huge hit — even with the naggers (like myself) nagging. Huge audience numbers (both at the stadiums and TV), people getting along just fine (aside from two or three confrontations), even the usually skeptical ESPN Brasil journalists (one, if not the biggest, critic of the Brazilian team) have ceded — they’re loving it. They’re loving how exciting the matches have been, even the ones that they were certain the “small” team didn’t stand a chance. Yesterday, they (journalists, commentators) couldn’t hide their excitement over the fact that the match between Algeria and Germany was a tough one. Most people thought Algeria was dead in the water from the get-go.
The matches have a better goal per games ratio than the last WC and some of them were truly amazing — in spite of some bad refereeing.
I’m not rooting for the Brazilian team — I haven’t rooted for Brazil since 1995 (before the Olympics in Atlanta). But I’m scared that if (or once) we lose, that will affect the next presidential election — Rousseff’s was verbally insulted (really ugly, misogynistic slurs were shout at her) during the first match. So…there’ll definitely be a somber, depressed mood around here if Brazil loses, but I doubt there’ll be riots. Most likely, the players and coach will be booed when they arrive home (there are always assholes willing to go to the airport just for that), lots of angry tweets or Facebook messages will be written, lots of people saying they should have done this or/and that aaaaannnd things will be back to normal. It’s always been like that. I’m (sadly) old enough to remember.
It’s scary how much sport can play into politics, isn’t it? I hope nothing rotten comes of it, Evelet, I really do. Now England are covered in opprobrium, I’m supporting Germany (that’s kinda non grata here, but sod it).
Yes, it is scary. But the last polls showed her (the president) popularity at 39% (of people intending to vote for her) against 21% for the opposition. But they say that a Brazilian loss could lead to a 5 point drop so I’m a bit wary. I hate their (opposition) party. They’re close to our biggest tv network (Globo — which is the Brazilian version of Fox) and that should tell you something.
I’m afraid I have no team left to root for…I really like the Dutch team but I LOATHE their coach (Van Gaal — just a tiny step up from Mourinho). I kinda want him to fall on his face. But the players have nothing to do with that, they’ve been really nice to fans and press here so…I don’t know. But I’m certain I won’t hate if Holland finally wins a World Cup (which, in my opinion, should have already happened, back in 1998 — I LOVED some of their players, especially Dennis Bergkamp).
Tell me more about Brazilian party politics! I love hearing about domestic politics of other countries.
My favouritest ever footballer is Gianluca Vialli. I also had a big thing for Manu Petit, if we’re talking ex-Arsenal players.
@ Sixer:
Awwwww, I hate talking about politics…especially when it comes to our country. I’ve been voting for the same party since I was allowed to vote so my opinion may be biased. All I can say is that since 2002 they’re the “establishment”. Problem is: the opposition here rarely (actually, never) plays a fair game. They have Globo and Veja (a weekly, political magazine) on their side and these are the press I trust the least (actually, no, I don’t trust them at all). They sort of act like the tea party there in the US.
It’s ok to be openly supportive of this or that party, but they try to seem “impartial” which is bull — Globo, before Rousseff was elected for the first time, once aired (during their main news show) a “special report” linking her to a terrorist act during the 60s or 70s. They were outed by other media outlets and had to admit, later on, that the report was fake and had been based solely on an e-mail they had received by an unknown source. See how fair and impartial they are?
P.S.: My favourite players ever — Sócrates (played for my team during the 80s), Michael Laudrup (from Denmark) and Dennis Bergkamp (Holland).
Pelé, even though he’s a living legend and was indeed an amazing player, is not a good person in real life. I read an unauthorized biography that painted a really ugly portrait of his character (if he has any, that is). You could argue that an unauthorized biography isn’t exactly fair, but that was combined with several articles and reports that confirmed his a**holery. The way he treated one of his daughters (till the day she died), for instance, was unbelievably nasty.
I never understand why there is so much conversation about the “liberal media” in various countries (mostly, I’m thinking US and UK). Because it seems to me that the left of centre parties always have to temper their policies to get important approval from large media outlets. I think mass media is actually reactionary, for the most part.
We have broadcast media regulations here. Broadcasters must be impartial but newspapers can be partisan. I don’t think there’s any such thing as objective, though.
Eve, there’s an ineresting collection of books by José Rodrigues dos Santos about politics, war and the media, and how governments around the world control what is said and how people perceive the “game of politics and war”
For those who don’t know, J.R. dos Santos is a Portuguese journalist, TV presenter , also worked fot BBC, and is also a war correspondent. What he says about media manipulation is really scary.., We’re talking about someone who knows CIA agents, met Bin Laden followers, former KGB agents… Let me see if I can find the names of the books…
“Crónicas de Guerra”; “Crónicas de Guerra da Crimeia a Dachau” “Verdade da Guerra”.. Though the books are about war, they give a person a good insight on media manipulation, and that manipulation can be applied to anything, sports included.
Thanks for the tip, Nighty.
The man has serious problems for sure. I’m surprised this latest biting incident is just getting swept under the rug. What if this jerk had a disease or had broken the skin of the other player, infecting him. Banning a few games isn’t enough.
Suarez is also a racist.
I call it BS, it’s not the first time he’s done it, and it won’t be the last… And he should just be kicked out of football for good… I mean, he’s looney, for God’s sake.. He could transmit illnesses by biting the other player… I believe the other player should take him to court on counts of endangering his life…
Total bs. This man has severe mental issues and is in complete denial. He really needs help.
So disappointed in Suarez. He went through knee injury and I was hoping he would play really well, but then he became a Vampire His apology was not sincere. It was said that Barcelona made him do it . There were talks right after the incident that Barca was already thinking about reducing the offer they had made.
I like how Uruguay’s president said that Suatez is from the country. From the fields and didn’t go to university so that is his excuse for being a heathen. I feel for the poor peoe of Uruguay if that is all their president expects of them.
I would’ve liked him to be more apologetic towards his team mates. They’re the ones that were really let down by his actions.
I think he is mentally disturbed. Biting can be a problem with a toddler or pre-schooler, not as an adult and certainly not in a sporting event. Apparently this is his m.o. In Liverpool. His behavior does have a certain fear factor for other players; moreover, if he bites & breaks the skin, the bugs that live in all human mouths could cause infection. Abscesses aren’t much fun.
This behavior is simply unacceptable. He is a threat and a danger to players in the same sport who somehow manage not to venture into the Twilight Zone with their in play behaviors.
BS on his apology-I say he should be banned from the sport for life, especially if this stunt was pre-planned (I.e. rigging or throwing the game).
I am from Uruguay. And the apology is just PR. He needs to control himself? Yes, obviously. but the punishment was too strong. Did he break someone´s leg that could harm someone´s career? No he didn´t. Did he kung fu someone like one Dutch player did in 2010 against Xabi Alonso (and got away with it not even with a yellow card) that could have break his ribs? No he didn´t. Did he dive and cheated to get a penalty and advance like Robben? No he didn´t. Yes, bitting is wrong and he had to be punished. And yes he probably has a Phd in fucking drama with all his diving and all, same as Robben, same as some Argentinian players, same as all the rest, or is it Surez the only one that dives? I´ve seen spectacular dives in this WC and not from him. I am not excusing him, he´s an idiot. But people are overreacting, ban him for life? then the majority of players should be banned. Like the Italian that provoked Zidane or the Colombian (Yepes) that provoked and provoked and provoked Uruguayan players the other day. Or Robben, or some of the players from Honduras that you could see wanted to break someone´s leg. Etc. And same with other sports (yes, hockey and NFL I am looking at you).