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Luis Suarez’s bid to get 4-month ban reduced fails

Luis Suarez failed to win a reprieve from his four month ban for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini
Geneva: Luis Suarez on Thursday failed to win a reprieve from his four-month ban for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup, but got a green light to resume training. In a hotly awaited ruling, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said it had found Suarez guilty of assault during Uruguay’s World Cup match against Italy.
The decision means that the 27-year-old striker remains unable to make his debut for his new club Barcelona until October 25, but can at least train with his teammates and be involved in promotional activities.
He is also barred from taking to the pitch with Uruguay for nine consecutive official matches.
Barcelona said that the striker would train for the first time on Friday and be presented to the fans on Monday when the Spanish giants play the Joan Gamper Trophy match at their Camp Nou home. “The CAS Panel found that the sanctions imposed on the player were generally proportionate to the offence committed,” the court said in a statement.
“It has however considered that the stadium ban and the ban from ‘any football-related activity’ were excessive given that such measures are not appropriate to sanction the offence committed by the player and would still have an impact on his activity after the end of the suspension.”
Suarez, who has a record of bans for biting opponents, was barred from all football-related activity for four months after biting Chiellini on the shoulder during Uruguay’s final Group ‘C’ Would Cup match on June 24 in the Brazilian city of Natal.
( Source : AP )
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