FIFA Hands Suarez Four-Month Ban For Biting Chiellini

FIFA has banned Uruguay striker Luis Suarez for four months from all football-related activity, after a disciplinary panel found him guilty of biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in their Group C game on Tuesday.

The Liverpool player was also fined 82,000 euros and handed a nine-match international ban.


This means that Suarez will miss the rest of the World Cup and the start of the new Premier League season.

“The player Luis Suarez is to be suspended for nine official matches,” a FIFA statement read. “The first match of this suspension is to be served in the upcoming FIFA World Cup fixture between Colombia and Uruguay on June 28, 2014.

“The remaining match suspensions shall be served in Uruguay’s next FIFA World Cup match(es), as long as the team (remains in the competition), and/or in the representative team’s subsequent official matches.

“The player Luis Suarez is banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) for a period of four months.

“A stadium ban is pronounced against the player Luis Suarez in accordance with article 21 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code as follows: the player Luis Suarez is prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium during the period of the ban.
“The player Luis Suarez 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.

“The player Luis Suarez is ordered to pay a fine in the amount of 100,000 Swiss Francs.”


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