Luis Suarez Appears To Bite Opponent (again) In World Cup Win

NATAL, Brazil – In the lat­est chap­ter of Luis Suarez’s con­tro­ver­sial career, the Uruguay strik­er could once again be in trou­ble after appear­ing to bite an Italian oppo­nent Tuesday in a key World Cup qual­i­fy­ing game.

The inci­dent, shown on tele­vi­sion replays, showed Suarez appar­ent­ly bite the shoul­der of Italy defend­er Giorgio Chiellini as the pair clashed in the Italian penal­ty area. It hap­pened about a minute before Uruguay scored in the 81^st.

Uruguay won 1 – 0 and qual­i­fied for the knock­out stages, while four-time cham­pi­on Italy was eliminated.

It is the third bit­ing inci­dent involv­ing the tal­ent­ed but con­tro­ver­sial striker.

Suarez was banned for sev­en match­es by the Netherlands foot­ball fed­er­a­tion in 2010 after bit­ing PSV Eindhoven play­er Otman Bakkal in a league match when he played for Ajax. After mov­ing to Liverpool, he bit Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic in 2013 and was banned for 10 games. FIFA can sanc­tion play­ers with bans of up to two years if its dis­ci­pli­nary com­mis­sion decides there is a case to answer. After the inci­dent Tuesday, Chiellini protest­ed loud­ly but the ref­er­ee did not appear to have spot­ted the inci­dent. http://​www​.cbsnews​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​l​u​i​s​-​s​u​a​r​e​z​-​a​p​p​e​a​r​s​-​t​o​-​b​i​t​e​-​o​p​p​o​n​e​n​t​-​a​g​a​i​n​-​i​n​-​w​o​r​l​d​-​c​u​p​-​w​in/