Argentina legend Diego Maradona has blasted FIFA's punishment of Luis Suarez as "shameful".
Suarez
was banned for four months from all football-related activity and is
suspended for Uruguay's next nine competitive international appearances
after biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the FIFA World Cup.
Uruguay
qualified for the last 16 of the Brazil showpiece with a 1-0 win over
Italy on Tuesday, but the result was overshadowed by Suarez's actions,
the third time in four years that he has sunk his teeth into an
opposition player.
Maradona, himself no stranger to
controversy throughout his glittering career, showed support for Suarez
in a television appearance and wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the
message 'Luis, we are with you.'
And he also slammed football's governing body for the hefty suspension.
"The
FIFA sanction is shameful, they have no sensitivity towards the fans,"
Maradona said on television, as quoted by The Guardian.
"They might as well handcuff him and throw him in Guantanamo (prison Guantanamo Bay).
"It
hurts that they have cut short the career of a lad who is a winner.
It's an excessive suspension, FIFA cannot talk about morals to anyone.
"Suarez didn't kill anyone. This is an unjust punishment, the act of an incredible mafia."
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