FIFA Bans Luis Suarez For Four Months, Fined $112,000

Mr. Vampire suarez has been banned for
four months from all football related
activities by FIFA for biting Italian
defender Giorgio Chiellini during the
Uruguay-Italy match played on June 24th.

FIFA’s disciplinary committee released a
statement on their website stating this.
See it below…

“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.
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. Continue…

· 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
($112,000).

The decision was notified to the player
and the Uruguayan FA today.
“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. The Disciplinary Committee took
into account all the factors of the case
and the degree of Mr Suárez’s guilt in
accordance with the relevant provisions
of the Code. The decision comes into
force as soon it is communicated,” said
Claudio Sulser, chairman of the FIFA
Disciplinary Committee.