Barcelona's Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez controls the ball during the Spanish league football match Cordoba CF
Montevideo (AFP) - Luis Suarez
was "a victim" of the alleged widespread corruption roiling FIFA so his
international suspension for biting should be lifted, Uruguay's
football players' union said Thursday.
"If
Luis Suarez agrees, we will request the end of his suspension on
grounds that he was suspended by an organization suspected of
corruption," the Uruguayan Professional Footballers' Mutual Association
said on its official Twitter account.
"He
was without a doubt the victim of this ALLEGED corruption," it said,
after nine former and current top football officials were charged in a
sweeping investigation involving more than $150 million in bribes for
World Cup hosting rights, broadcast contracts and other lucrative
football decisions.
Barcelona forward Suarez, a hero in Uruguay, was suspended by FIFA during the World Cup in Brazil last year for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini.
The
nine-match suspension from international duty sent him home from the
World Cup, where Uruguay crashed out in their next match, and will also
sideline him from this year's Copa America in Chile.
The
seven football officials arrested in a dawn raid Wednesday on a Zurich
luxury hotel include Uruguay's Eugenio Figueredo, who is executive vice
president of FIFA and former president of both the Uruguayan Football
Association and the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL)
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