Soccer , Suárez, and Biting
The Gist
This week, it was reported that FC Barcelona/Uruguay
national team player Luis Suárez was seeking help for his biting “problem.” During the
2014 World Cup in Brazil, he bit Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini’s ear
and banned from playing for four months (sparking some pretty creative GIFs). Interestingly,
Chiellini said he thought the punishment was excessive. Officials, however,
said they took Suárez’s other biting incidents into account; he bit PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal in 2010, and Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic in
2013. So it should come as a relief to opposing players that he has
admitted he has a problem. His biting “impulse” has not made him any less
popular among club owners. During his suspension, he left Liverpool for Barcelona
for a reported $120 million contract, making him one of the highest paid soccer
players in the world. It should be noted, that Suárez is not the Beautiful Games’ most infamous biter: in
2001, Sevilla striker Francisco
Gallardo bit his teammate Jose Antonio Reyes … in the scrotum.
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