RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The international players’ union has questioned the severity and focus of FIFA’s punishment of Luis Suarez for biting an opponent at the World Cup.
FIFPro says “rehabilitation and serious treatment … must be a part of any sanction” for the Uruguay and Liverpool forward.
It says Suarez deserves “all the support he needs” to reduce his sanctions and “deal with any off-field issues.”
The union says the FIFA appeals committee must “focus especially on the accumulation of sanctions” which added a four-month ban from all football to suspension from nine Uruguay matches and a fine.
The union says this “directly infringes his right to work.”
FIFPro says it reviewed the full judgment of FIFA’s disciplinary panel, and an appeal can “re-establish the facts in a calm and considered setting.”
