Liverpool’s Luis Suarez’s grandmother describes four-month ban as “barbaric”
Luis Suarez’s grandmother has described FIFA’s decision to ban the striker from all football activity for four months, as well as nine international games as “barbaric”, reports The Independent.
The ban, for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chilellini, means the Uruguay striker is ruled out of the rest of the World Cup, and he could miss up to 13 matches for Liverpool. He is also unable to train with Uruguay or Liverpool, or enter a football stadium for the duration of the ban.
Suarez’s grandmother, Lila Piriz Da Rosa, believes FIFA were targeting him and have treated him “like a dog”. She told Reuters: “Everyone knows what they’ve done to Luis. They wanted him out of the World Cup. Perfect, they did it. They chucked him out of there like a dog.”
This is the third biting incident of Suarez’s career, but Da Rosa believes FIFA were looking for a reason to punish Suarez. She added: “They had their eyes on him to see what he does. It’s barbaric what they’ve done to him. I’m his granny and I love my boy loads. Please don’t ask me any more.”
The striker was expected to return to Uruguay last night, and around 500 fans awaited him at Montevideo airport, though he did not arrive in the end. Authorities have now claimed he will be taken to him home in Solymar privately, in order to escape the inevitable attention of the world’s media.