The lawyer of Barcelona target Luis Suarez has criticised FIFA’s decision to maintain the ban given to his client for biting Giorgio Chiellini.
Alejandro Balbi told Cope that they will now appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport [CAS] after the governing body declined to reduce Suarez’s suspension of nine international games and four months from all football.
Suarez was sanctioned for biting Chiellini during Uruguay’s World Cup Group D fixture with Italy. The Liverpool striker has already served a game of the international suspension, missing his country’s Round of 16 defeat to Colombia.
“Luis acknowledged his mistake but for FIFA that repentance is not a major element,” Mundo Deportivo reports Balbi as saying.
“Justice takes time but it comes. His right to work as a footballer has been violated and football should be concerned.
“He’s unable to watch a game of football, or train, or do his job. It’s unpleasant. Hopefully a penalty that is draconian, totalitarian and fascistic is revoked.”
