Now that the hype is dying down, I think I can write about this incident. I'm not usually someone who gets interested in most sports (with the exception of the Chicago Cubs baseball team), this story has been all over the darn internet, so I may as well look at it.
About a week ago, Uruguay was playing against Italy in the FIFA World Cup, the big international soccer tournament. Moments before Uruguay's big score of the game, their best striker, Luiz Suárez , allegedly bit the Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini (The footage appears to confirm that it happened).
This brings up a very interesting question: Why in the world would a grown man bite someone during a game? This is the kind of behavior you'd expect from a four-year-old. There's talk aplenty about whether or not Suárez has mental issues; why are they not talking about maturity issues? This guy behaved in a childish way. And this ain't the first he's sunk choppers into an opponent. He did it to the Dutch Bakkal and the Russian Ivanovitch. He also prevented Ghana from winning back in 2010 by using his hand to block the ball (a big no-no in soccer), and was involved in an incident involving alleged racial abuse of another player.
It's such a shame to because Suárez is the best player on the Uruguayan team. After he got banned, Uruguay lost against Colombia and so is out the running. This guy's got talent and has won some pretty great goals for his team. I do hope he doesn't get banned for life. They should ban him for a year to work on his issues, and then try again.
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