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Thu Jun 26, 2014, 10:38 AM Jun 2014

Luis Suárez suspended for 9 matches and four months, plus $111826.18 fine

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.

The decision was notified to the player and the Uruguayan FA today.
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http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2014/m=6/news=ghana-pair-suspended-and-sent-home-2386284.html

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Luis Suárez suspended for 9 matches and four months, plus $111826.18 fine (Original Post) Renew Deal Jun 2014 OP
Good...knr joeybee12 Jun 2014 #1
Time for Suárez to be banned permanently -- This is NOT his first offense! rocktivity Jun 2014 #2
Perhaps if it happens ... Auggie Jun 2014 #3
Just dump him already. SwankyXomb Jun 2014 #4

rocktivity

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2. Time for Suárez to be banned permanently -- This is NOT his first offense!
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 06:22 PM
Jun 2014
Wikipedia: On 20 November 2010, Suárez bit PSV's Otman Bakkal on the shoulder during a 0–0 draw. Ajax suspended him for two games and fined him an undisclosed amount which the club said they would donate to a "good cause".

On 21 April 2013, during a 2–2 draw with Chelsea in a Premier League game at Anfield, Suárez bit Branislav Ivanović; this was the second time Suárez had bitten an opponent. It was not noticed by the officials, and Suárez scored an equaliser in injury time. He was charged with violent conduct by the FA and fined an undisclosed sum by his club.


What -- the poor misunderstood thing has a "regression" problem?

...(T)he old habit that most people leave behind in nursery school cropped up again in front of an audience of millions. Sports and business psychologist Makis Chamaldis said that an adult bite represents regression and transgression, born out of frustration.

"It's a way of evacuating your frustration, even if it's not the most elegant way," he said, adding that athletes like Suarez need to find tools and firewalls to create self-control. "If you do it several times, in critical moments, it means it can become compulsory, almost obsessive..."

Then treat him like a nursery schooler -- put him in a permanent "time out!" Does he have to attempt to suck someone's blood before it becomes clear that he's a danger to himself and others?


However, some good did come out of it -- Suárez can take comfort in knowing he still has at least 167 fans:

A Norway gambling website posted a...175-to-1 odds...prop bet...that Luis Suarez would bite someone during...the World Cup...tournament...167 people have cashed in...

Thomas Syversen, who bet 32 krone (about $5.25 USD)...cashed in for 5600 krone (a little over $916) on the bet...The biggest winner...won $3,300...



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