The Uruguay Players’ Union want Luis Suarez’s international ban to be annulled in the wake of the latest corruption scandal concerning FIFA officials.

The Uruguayan forward was served a nine-match international ban by FIFA for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during a World Cup group encounter in Brazil last summer.




Following the controversy, FIFA also served him a four-month ban from all football related activities. Suarez joined Barcelona from Liverpool in a big money move after the World Cup.

However, FIFA are now battling an internal corruption scandal which led to a number of their officials being arrested earlier this week in Zurich ahead of their 65th congress.
 


The Uruguayan Players’ Union feel that the latest FIFA corruption scandal has put football’s governing body’s integrity under the scanner and with that their decision to ban Suarez.

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Therefore they feel the ban should be annulled as there is no guarantee that the decision was made ‘within the framework of illegal actions’.

Uruguay players' union legal adviser Ernesto Liotti was quoted as saying by the BBC: "With these facts [of alleged corruption], Fifa's decisions in the last few years have come under a mantle of suspicion.

"We have no proof that this [sanction] was made within the framework of illegal actions but nothing guarantees us that it wasn't."

The ban won’t allow Suarez to participate in this summer’s Copa America in Uruguay.

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