Uruguay president Jose Mujica has slammed Fifa for their treatment of Luis Suarez, claiming he needs help from a psychiatrist rather than a ban from football.
Suarez received a nine-game international suspension and a four-month ban from all football-related activity – along with a fine – after being found guilty of biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini in Uruguay’s 1-0 win on June 24 in the group stages of the World Cup.
President Mujica was scathing in his assessment of Fifa in the immediate aftermath of the punishment, calling football administrators “a bunch of old sons of ,” and has now added that the new Barcelona signing would be far better off with psychiatric help, rather than a widespread ban.
“He comes from a poor background and his main intelligence is in his feet,” the Uruguayan leader said in an interview with Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.
