FIFA on Thursday rejected Liverpool and Uruguay striker Luis Suarez’s appeal against a four-month ban from all soccer-related activities for biting Italy’s GiorgioChiellini. The Uruguayan soccer federation (AUF) had described FIFA’s ruling as an “excessive decision” for which “there was not enough evidence”. Suarez can now make a further appeal to theEuropean Union’s Court of […]
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Report: Barca 'Hours' Away from Suarez Transfer
Reports in Spain claim that Luis Suarez’s transfer from Liverpool to Barcelona is hours away from completion, with Mundo Deportivo in Catalonia claiming that Barca will pay between70 million ($95.4 million) and 73 million euros (99.5 million), which is said to be some 20 million euros ($27.3 million) below the Uruguay international’s release clause. Barca […]
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Report: Liverpool Agrees to Suarez Sale
According to Catalan TV station TV3, Barcelona and Liverpool have reached a preliminary agreement for the transfer of Luis Suarez, with the former agreeing to pay close to 79 million euros($107.4 million) to sign the Uruguayan striker. The report claims that the deal has been finalized but will depend on agreeing payment terms, as Barca […]
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Reports: Barca Bids $120 Million for Suarez
It looks like Luis Suarez will soon be heading to Barcelona, as representatives from Liverpool, his current club, and Barca met on Wednesday in a “productive” first meeting over aproposed transfer. According to several reports, Barca made an initial offer of 70 million pounds ($120 million), which is still 10 million pounds ($17.1 million) short […]
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Liverpool Opens Talks with Barca Over Suarez
Liverpool has given the first indication that Luis Suarez may have played his last game at Anfield by agreeing to open talks with Barcelona over the transfer of the striker, who will bebanned from playing for four months following after biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini while on international duty with Uruguay. It is understood that […]
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Report: Suarez Apology Fueled by Barcelona
Luis Suarez on Monday issued an apology for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini, marking a U-turn from his initial stance that he somehow fell on Chiellini’s shoulder andbit him by accident. The Daily Mirror claims that Suarez’s U-turn was the result of an order from Barcelona, which is rumored to be his new club. Liverpool, […]
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Uruguay President Rails Against FIFA for Suarez Ban
Uruguayan President José Mujica on Sunday weighed in on the Luis Suarez ban, calling FIFA “a bunch of old sons of bitches” after soccer’s world governing bodybanned the Liverpool striker for four months for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini. Mujica went on to describe the penalty, which will keep the player from training with his […]
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The Wiggles Parody Suarez
The Wiggles, the popular Australian children’s entertainers, have released a YouTube video about the Luis Suarez-Giorgio Chiellini biting incident called The Last SuarezSupper! The group changed the lyrics to the Toreador song from Bizet’s opera, Carmen to make the parody. Increasingly, the Wiggles are creating content geared at adults.Recently they performed their own version of […]
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A Tale of Two Missing Strikers
When Colombia squares off against Uruguay in the round of 16 on Saturday, both teams will be missing their talismanic striker. While Colombia’s players have been playing well in the absenceof Radamel Falcao, who was forced to withdraw from the tournament after tearing his ACL in January, Uruguay has just lost Luis Suarez, the enigmatic […]
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Chiellini: Suarez Ban 'Excessive'
Giorgio Chiellini, the Italian player bitten by Luis Suarez this week, has called the Uruguayan’s subsequent four-month, worldwide soccer ban “excessive” and fearsit could lead to the player becoming alienated. FIFA handed the punishment down on Thursday, thus ruling the Liverpool striker out of the rest of the World Cup and the start of the […]