Thursday 26 June 2014

Photos: FIFA fines & bans Luis Suarez for 9 matches + suspends him from all football-related activity for 4 months

Uruguay striker Luis Suarez has been suspended from all football-related activity for four months for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini.
In addition, the Liverpool player, 27, has been banned for nine international matches, ruling him out of the rest of the 2014 Fifa World Cup He will also miss the first nine games of the Premier League season.
Uruguay Football Association president Wilmar Valdez says the association will appeal against the ban.
Suarez has also been fined 100,000 Swiss francs (£65,680) for the incident, which occurred during Tuesday's 2014 World Cup Group D game, which Uruguay won to qualify for the last 16.
The ban is the biggest in World Cup history, beating the eight games given to Italy's Mauro Tassotti for elbowing Spain's Luis Enrique in 1994.
"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," Claudio Sulser, chairman of the Fifa disciplinary committee, said in a statement.
Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce added: "I think the punishment handed out to Luis Suarez is fully justified. Hopefully he will have learnt that this type of behaviour cannot be tolerated."

Premier League matches Suarez will miss

Assumed four-month period runs 26 Jun-26 Oct

Footie fans, are these penalties enough or does he deserve more?
16 August
Liverpool v Southampton
23 August
Man City v Liverpool
30 August
Tottenham v Liverpool
13 September
Liverpool v Aston Villa
20 September
West Ham v Liverpool
27 September
Liverpool v Everton
4 October
Liverpool v West Brom
18 October
QPR v Liverpool
25 October
Liverpool v Hull



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