URUGUAY: FOOTBALL/SOCCER: Uruguay's soccer player Luis Suarez arrives to Montevideo, Uruguay after being thrown out of World Cup for biting

Record ID: 351671

  • Title: URUGUAY: FOOTBALL/SOCCER: Uruguay's soccer player Luis Suarez arrives to Montevideo, Uruguay after being thrown out of World Cup for biting
  • Date: 27th June 2014
  • Summary: MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY (JUNE 26, 2014) (REUTERS) GENERAL VIEW OF FANS ARRIVING TO AND GATHERING AT AIRPORT WITH FLAGS AND SIGNS FANS ARRIVING FANS WITH FLAGS AND SIGN THAT READS: "Blatter, sanction this" GENERAL VIEW OF FANS WITH BANNER THAT READS: "URUGUAY, FIGHT, WE ARE WITH YOU" VARIOUS OF FANS GATHERED AND CHEERING, WAVING FLAGS FAN HOLDING SIGN THAT READS IN SPANISH: "Lu
  • Embargoed: 12th July 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Uruguay
  • Country: Uruguay
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVADARM49OFWL36NJ1UODL6YGAX6
  • Story Text: Uruguay's Luis Suarez arrived to Montevideo early on Friday (June 27) after being hit with the longest ban imposed at a World Cup as FIFA threw the book at one of the soccer's most talented by controversial players for biting an opponent.
    On Thursday, FIFA banned Suarez from all football-related activity for four months and also ruled he could not play in Uruguay's next nine competitive games, immediately ending his involvement in the World Cup in Brazil.
    Fans gathered at Montevideo's airport late on Friday in a show of support, one fan holding a sign that read "We love you as you are".
    Suarez arrived on a private plane and disembarked at closed hangar where he was whisked away by a waiting van.
    Local media reports he is in his home.
    The ban means the striker is unlikely to appear in non-friendly matches for his country until 2016.
    The four-month ban means Suarez will have to sit out the first two months of the next English season, and he will miss Liverpool's opening Premier League and Champions League matches.
    The 27-year-old striker left his Uruguay team mates shortly after FIFA's announcement, depriving them of their most outstanding player two days before a last 16 match against Colombia.
    FIFA also fined Suarez 100,000 Swiss francs ($111,000) after 10 hours of deliberations by its Disciplinary Committee.
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