Once Bitten, Twice Decried: Uruguay Outraged By Suarez Punishment

NPR | By Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Published June 27, 2014 at 4:15 PM EDT

Luis Suarez's sponsors are dropping him, his future at his team Liverpool is in doubt and his 2014 World Cup is over. FIFA dealt the Uruguayan soccer player an unusually harsh sentence for biting his opponent, and his home country is outraged.

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