00:04Uruguay's Luis Suarez has played for some of the world's biggest clubs.
00:10At Ajax, Liverpool and Barcelona, his speed, physicality and, of course, polished finishing
00:16made him one of the most damaging strikers in the game.
00:23But his reputation was forever tarnished after one of the biggest controversies to ever occur
00:28on football's greatest stage.
00:33Suarez bit the shoulder of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini in Uruguay's group match against the Azzurri,
00:39and it wasn't the first time he'd bitten off more than he could chew.
00:44He first bit an opposition player at Ajax in 2010, then again with Liverpool in 2013.
00:52What started as a peculiar brain fade had become a nasty habit.
00:58His third lapse exposed the world to his polarizing character.
01:05FIFA immediately handed him a nine-match international ban and a four-month stint away from football altogether.
01:13This is not fair, what he has done. That's definitely not fair.
01:18Thrown out of the tournament, he returned to Uruguay to a hero's welcome.
01:23And back in Brazil, his teammates, including captain Diego Lugano, didn't seem to understand what all the fuss was about.
01:31I can't understand how something so unimportant, that is of no consequence, creates this amount of news.
01:40But Suarez's bite cost him, and his country, dearly, as Uruguay lost their round of 16 match to Colombia 2
01:48-0.
01:52The media ripped him to shreds, with headlines like, Jaws 3, 3 Bites and You're Out, and Chewy Luis and
02:00the Blues.
02:03Suarez and Uruguay appealed the penalty, but it changed nothing.
02:08And their conspiracy theories looked foolish, when eventually Suarez admitted the bite.
02:16I apologize to Giorgio Chiellini and the entire football family.
02:20I vow to the public that there will never be another incident.
02:25Suarez began a new life as a Barcelona superstar, intent on holding his promise.
02:33But on football's greatest stage, actions speak louder than words.
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