Fifa has announced it will open an
investigation into allegations Uruguay striker
Luis Suarez bit Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini
on the shoulder in Tuesday's World Cup
encounter in Natal.
A Fifa spokesperson told Goal: "We are
awaiting the official match reports and
will gather all the necessary elements in
order to evaluate the matter."
Fifa have the authority to ban the Liverpool
star for up to two years and their disciplinary
code allows the use of video evidence.
Meanwhile, The Liverpool striker, though, says
that the incident has been blown out of all
proportion.
"These things happen inside the penalty
area," Suarez told Uruguay's Channel 10
radio station. "We were chest against
shoulder. I also immediately suffered a
blow to the eye."
Chiellini was certainly in no doubt as to what
had happened.
"Suarez is smart because Fifa allow it
because they want to their champions to
play," he told RAI. "The referee saw
everything, but did not have the
courage.
"There are episodes that affect the game.
The action is clear, theysay that the
referees are informed on the players,
but obviously they are not."
Suarez has been banned for biting twice
before. At Ajax, he was handed a seven-game
ban for biting PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal.
Last year he was given a 10-game sanction for
biting the arm of Chelsea defender Branislav
Ivanovic in a Premier League game at Anfield.
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