Article by Adrian Duţă – published Monday, September 08, 2025, 23:18 / Updated Monday, September 08, 2025 23:18
Luis Suarez (38 years old) received a suspension of 3 matches from the MLS management for his behavior in the League Cup final. To Inter Miami's striker also applied a prohibition of six matches, valid exclusively for the next edition of the Cup
Suarez spit on a Seattle team, in front of which his team lost 0-3. The incident took place during a general altercation, after the final whistle of the last act in the League Cup.
Luis Suarez also received the second suspension
After receiving a suspension of 6 matches in the future edition of the League Cup, the US football leadership gave Suarez and in the championship, of 3 matches. Thus, the striker received two penalties for the hooligan behavior on the ground, writes Sport.aktuality.
After spitting Steven Lenhart, a member of Seattle's staff, Luis Suarez apologized by a message published on social networks.
It was a moment of great tension and frustration, in which, immediately after the end of the match, things happened that should not have happened, but that does not justify my reaction. I was wrong and I sincerely apologize. It is not the image I want to have in front of my family, who suffers because of my mistakes, in front of my club, which is not worth being affected by this.
– Luis Suarez
Uruguayan has been involved several times in scandals throughout his career as a player. In the past, he has been sanctioned for showing the middle finger or because he was biting the Italian defender Giorgio Chielini, in a match of Uruguay with Italy from CM 2014, but also on Serbian defender Branislav Ivanovic, in a derby Liverpool-Chelsea.
