Suarez handed six-match ban for spitting incident in Leagues Cup closing
Luis Suarez has been banned for six matches after spitting at a Seattle Sounders workers member throughout Inter Miami’s Leagues Cup closing defeat final week.
Miami missed out on silverware as they had been comfortably crushed 3-0 by the hosts at Lumen Subject.
Nonetheless, the showpiece was marred by post-match incidents involving Suarez, who grabbed Seattle midfielder Obed Vargas across the neck, earlier than spitting within the face of director of safety, Gene Ramirez.
The 38-year-old has subsequently been handed a six-match suspension, which can solely apply to the Leagues Cup and successfully rule him out for everything of subsequent 12 months’s competitors, whereas MLS “reserves the precise” to impose additional punishment.
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Suarez’s team-mates Sergio Busquets (two video games) and Tomas Aviles (three video games) have additionally acquired bans, together with Seattle teaching workers member Steven Lenhart (5 video games).
The Uruguayan apologised for “a second of nice pressure and frustration” in a press release on his Instagram account earlier this week, acknowledging: “I used to be fallacious and I sincerely remorse it”.
