Suarez Still Hasn’t Bitten The Dust, But He Is Banned For Spitting

With the September international break in full flow as football suffers its first disruption of the 2025/26 campaign, there is obviously still plenty of football around the globe for fans to scratch their sporting itch and English based fans may well appreciate a story that has come out of the United States in recent days and it concerns Major League Soccer side Inter Miami and a certain Luis Suarez.

The 38 year old Uruguayan is an incredibly talented player and across his supremely successful career so far he has counted clubs such as Ajax, Liverpool, Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid as former employers and his individual trophy cabinet includes multiple league titles from some of Europe’s biggest divisions, domestic Cups and Champions Leagues, the Super Cup and the Club World Cup. It is fair to say his career is the equivalent of winning the jackpot at every crypto games casino on the planet. His talent has never been in question – the same cannot be said for his mentality, professionalism or his ability to control his temper.

As the old saying goes, as a player enters the twilight of their career it is inevitable that they will lose their pace, but they never lose their skill, touch, or vision and in Suarez’s case, he has not lost the ability to throw his dummy out and have a rather ridiculous 5 year old tantrum. In their clash with the Seattle Sounders in the Leagues Cup final that Inter Miami ultimately lost 3-0, his latest efforts have been rewarded with a six match suspension by the authorities.

His efforts at the full time whistle involved spitting on a Seattle Sounders’ member of staff (their director of security), which followed a melee involving both sets of players, that Suarez himself had originally sparked when he grabbed midfielder Obed Vargas around the neck and then team mate Sergio Busquets thought it would be a good idea to strike the Mexican international in the chin.

Suarez has naturally now apologised for his actions, and it should be noted that the suspension he has been handed only applies to the Leagues Cup which is an annual event so it will not come into force until 2026 anyway – although the MLS themselves have reserved ‘the right’ to impose unnamed additional punishment here. Busquets and fellow team mate Tomas Aviles have been suspended for two and three games respectively, whilst Sounders staff member Steven Lenhart has been banned for five games.

Now, if this was a one off that would be one thing, but Suarez has a tendency for getting himself banned in ridiculous ways and some would wonder if his job is to play football or cause controversy.

Let us not forget this is one of several very distasteful incidents throughout his career so far. Back in 2011 whilst with Liverpool he received an eight match ban having been found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United fullback Patrice Evra, and he has also served three separate bans for biting opponents (presumably when he got hungry during a match) during his time playing for Liverpool, Ajax and even his own country.

A phenomenal player who has long wowed football fans based on his skill and his eye for goal, but he is very much 16 cans short of an 18 pack.

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