Having been found guilty of biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in Tuesday’s World Cup clash in Natal Uruguay’s striker Luis Suarez has on Thursday been banned from all soccer-related activity for four months.
He was also been banned from nine international matches and he is required to pay a fine of 82,000 euros.
The ban was proclaimed in a FIFA statement released on Thursday.
The statement read:
The player Luis Suarez is to be suspended for nine official matches. The first match of this suspension is to be served in the upcoming FIFA World Cup fixture between Colombia and Uruguay on 28th June 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.
Claudio Sulser, the chairman of the FIFA disciplinary committee, said the panel had taken into account all the factors in the case. It means Suarez will miss the rest of the World Cup and the start of the new Premier League season with Liverpool.
