Argentina legend Diego Maradona has blasted FIFA's
punishment of Luis Suarez as "shameful".
Suarez was banned for four months from all
football-related activity and is suspended for Uruguay's next nine competitive
international appearances after biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the FIFA
World Cup.
Uruguay qualified for the last 16 of the Brazil showpiece
with a 1-0 win over Italy on Tuesday, but the result was overshadowed by
Suarez's actions, the third time in four years that he has sunk his teeth into
an opposition player.
Maradona, himself no stranger to controversy throughout
his glittering career, showed support for Suarez in a television appearance and
wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the message 'Luis, we are with you.'
And he also slammed football's governing body for the
hefty suspension.
"The FIFA sanction is shameful, they have no
sensitivity towards the fans," Maradona said on television, as quoted by
The Guardian.
"They might as well handcuff him and throw him in
Guantanamo (prison Guantanamo Bay).
"It hurts that they have cut short the career of a
lad who is a winner. It's an excessive suspension, FIFA cannot talk about
morals to anyone.
"Suarez didn't kill anyone. This is an unjust
punishment, the act of an incredible mafia."
Culled from Soccerway
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