FIFA Uruguay Luis Suárez Soccer World Cup Bite June 2014

Suárez, the Uruguayan striker,is a biter. For the 3rdX in his career, Suárez is facing potential punishment for appearing to sink his teeth into an opponent during Uruguay’sWorld Cup 1-0 victory over Italy on Tuesday. Late in the 2nd half, Suárez bumped into Giorgio Chiellini, an Italian defender, while jockeying for position in the penalty area and then dropped his head into Chiellini’s shoulder and they both fell to the ground. Then, only moments later, Uruguay scored the only goal of the game, benefiting from an earlier red card, for a cleat-first challenge to the leg, that left Italy a man down after the 59th minute. Suárez denied biting him, despite photographs of Chiellini’s shoulder circulating publicly and seeming to indicate otherwise. “I had contact with his shoulder, nothing more,” he said.
Chiellini said, “Suárez is a sneak, and he gets away with it because FIFA wants their stars to play in the World Cup.”
Óscar Tabárez, the Uruguayan coach, also said he had not seen the incident (nor any video or photographs of it afterward), but he leapt to Suárez’s defense anyway, vehemently attacking journalists for, in his opinion, unfairly targeting Suárez.
Tabárez added: “This is a football World Cup, not about morality, cheap morality.”
Suárez’s first biting incident came in 2010, when he was playing for the Dutch club Ajax. In that instance, he was suspended for seven games for biting an opponent on the neck, prompting a Dutch newspaper to call him the Cannibal of Ajax.
In April 2013, Suárez was caught on video — but, again, not by the referee — biting Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea. This time, Suárez was barred for 10 games, though he argued the customary three-match suspension for violent conduct was sufficient. When it handed down its sanction, the three-member disciplinary panel made a point to criticize Suárez for not appreciating the “seriousness” of his actions. The official Twitter account of McDonald’s Uruguay wrote to Suárez, “If you feel hungry, come take a bite of a Big Mac.”