On this day in 2014: Luis Suarez bites Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at World Cup – Soccer News

Luis Suarez overshadowed his Uruguay group’s gorgeous World Cup victory over Italy when he bit defender Giorgio Chiellini on at the present time in 2014.

The incident befell within the last group recreation between the edges as Diego Godin headed a late aim to safe a 1-0 win for the South Individuals to progress on the expense of the 2006 world champions.

Suarez then fell to the ground holding his mouth and Chiellini protested the Uruguayan ahead had dived.

My apologies to Chiellini: pic.twitter.com/CvfkkjxzlM

— Luis Suárez (@LuisSuarez9) June 30, 2014

Chiellini instructed Italian tv station Rai TV afterwards: “It was ridiculous to not ship Suarez off. It’s clear, clear-cut.

“Then there was the apparent dive afterwards as a result of he knew very nicely that he did one thing that he shouldn’t have carried out.”

The then-Liverpool striker had already served a 10-game Premier League ban that season for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic throughout a league recreation at Anfield in April 2013.

In 2010 while taking part in for Ajax he had been suspended for seven video games after an analogous offence dedicated towards PSV Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal.

He was subsequently punished by FIFA for the chunk on Chiellini, receiving a four-month suspension from all soccer and handed a nine-game worldwide ban, in addition to being fined 100,000 Swiss francs.

Uruguay had been knocked out on the last-16 stage after being overwhelmed 2-0 by Colombia.

Suarez returned to soccer by making his Barcelona debut in an El Clasico conflict in October that yr following a £65million transfer to the Nou Camp from Liverpool.