Diego Maradona condemns Luis Suarez's 4-month ban from football
Argentina legend Diego Maradona has condemned FIFA’s decision to ban Luiz Suarez from 4-months of football for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during a World Cup game and somehow analogized to being sent to Guantanamo Bay.
The former Argentine playmaker who won the World Cup for Argentina in 1986 was handed out a 15-month ban from football for testing positive in the 1994 edition of the tournament in USA declared his unconditional support for the Uruguay striker.
Maradona was talking in a TV show ‘De Zurda’ where he said “The FIFA sanction is shameful, they have no sensitivity towards the fans, they might as well handcuff him and throw him in Guantanamo.”
Maradona wore a T-shirt to the TV show which said ‘Luis, we are with you’, “Suárez didn’t kill anyone. This is an unjust punishment, the act of an incredible mafia.”
“The sanction on Luis is a way of punishing Uruguayan clubs for asking Conmebol for a fairer share of money. It hurts that they have cut short the career of a lad who is a winner. It’s an excessive suspension, FIFA cannot talk about morals to anyone.” he added.
Chiellini was the victim of the latest Suarez rage and was bit by him in Italy’s 1-0 lost to Uruguay resulting in an early exit from the tournament. The Uruguay Federation(AUF) is most likely to appeal against the decision which also includes a 9-game international ban.
Uruguay president Jose Mujica was also on the show via video link and agreed with Maradona completely. Speaking on the issue Mujica said “FIFA was punishing Suárez for reasons other than the aggression against Chiellini, we feel that this is an assault on the poor because this gang will never forgive him because he never went to university, he isn’t educated, he grew up on the field, and he is a natural rebel and expresses his anger naturally.”
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— VarskySports (@VarskySports) June 27, 2014