Poll: How many times should you be caught biting opponents before you get banned from a sport for life?
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Well, I don't have anything against that, and I wouldn't be surprised if a few leagues followed FIFA's lead, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of them didn't in the hopes of luring him in (assuming he's a good player...I have no idea).
He's the most frequent scorer of Hat Tricks in English League history; he won Footballer of the Year in England this past year, and scored an insane number of goals; he was pretty close to winning the Golden Boot (most goals scored in a season) and probably would have if he wasn't suspended so often. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Suárez
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He's...
Yeah, no way you're going to be able to enforce a world wide ban on someone like that.
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What would be less idiotic? Not banning him? Are you really suggesting that every soccer league in the world should be run by FIFA?
You can't monopolize soccer corruption like that?
Filed under: Can you?
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Yeah, no way you're going to be able to enforce a world wide ban on someone like that.
I can dream can't I?
Filed Under: Infamy > Fame
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The national leagues can choose to follow the FIFA ruling. Same discussion went on about Armstrong in cycling.
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Think about how Suarez must feel right now. No-one seems to be offering him a shoulder to cry on.
Filed under: Luis Suarez is hoping that Uruguay meet Germany in the final as he said he would like to try a shoulder of Lahm
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Well, FIFA is a federation of associations, or an association of federations (DK,DC). The federal government in the US is similarly limited in its powers, I guess. Now, that might be idiotic too, but at least it's not unprecedented.
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New poll suggestion: How many times should you be caught doing something incredibly stupid at your job before you get banned from working for life?
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The federal government in the US is similarly limited in its powers, I guess.
Not any more.
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Right. I heard Obama bought a phone and a pencil. Founding fathers oughta have thought of that.
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That ship sailed long before Obama started shitting on stuff.
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Technology never ceases to amaze me. With the advances in compression algorithms, Louis Suarez's career can now be summed up using just 3 bytes!
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Unlimited
I'm not a fan of bans for life but this repeat offence behavior does need to be disciplined in a meaningful way. Banning him from football for a reasonable length of time e.g. 20 games would seem to me to be about right. There's no way this would be applied across jurisdictions though.
The problem is this sort of action is not done with any rational thought. I doubt Suarez thought "I shouldn't really bite this guy but I will anyway"; it's likely he just did it as a reaction. How you fix that behaviour in an individual is the real question.
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He has been banned for Uruguay's next 9 matches, and also ALL football for the next 4 months. So he will miss around a dozen club matches for Liverpool too, when their season starts in late August. He can be sold to a different club, but won't be allowed play there either.
He is also banned from entering any stadium, banned from training with his team (big issue, he'll be rusty and out of shape after 4 months away from team training), and fined 100,000 Swiss Francs... a pittance for him but still, a decent chunk of change.
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He can be sold to a different club, but won't be allowed play there either.
AFAIR, he can't do anything related to football, so he can't be sold or loaned to another club during this period, either.
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That WAS a rumour going around but FIFA confirmed he can still be sold.