World Cup immediately being over for Suarez and he will miss nine Premier League games as well as Champions League and Capital One Cup matches before the end of October -- assuming he stays at Liverpool. LUIS SUAREZ BANNED WORLDWIDE A FIFA statement said: 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 [round of 16] FIFA World Cup fixture between Colombia and Uruguay. The remaining match suspensions shall be served in Uruguays next FIFA World Cup matches, as long as the team qualifies, and/or in the representative teams subsequent official matches. The player 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 Luis Suarez, who is prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium during the period of the ban. Suarez was also ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 Swiss francs (65,700 pounds). Claudio Sulser, the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, said: 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.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 01:01:18 +0000
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