Anfield<\/a> from 2011 to 2014, was then involved in an altercation with a Sounders staff member moments later and was forcibly held back by his colleague, Oscar Ustari, before appearing to spit in direction of the coach.<\/p>\nApologising for the incident on social media, Suarez posted on Thursday: “First of all, I want to congratulate the Seattle Sounders for their Leagues Cup victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut more importantly, I want to apologise for my behaviour at the end of the game. It was a moment full of tension and frustration, when things took place at the end of the game that shouldn\u2019t have occurred, but that doesn\u2019t justify my reaction. I made a mistake and I\u2019m sincerely sorry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not the image that I want to portray in front of my family, who suffer for my errors, and (Inter Miami) doesn\u2019t deserve to be affected by this either.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel bad for what happened, and I did not want to miss this opportunity to recognise it and ask everyone for forgiveness who felt poorly about what I did.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know there is still a lot of season to play for, and we\u2019re going to work together in order to accomplish the goals that this club and its fans deserve. A hug to all.\u201d”<\/p>\n
However, the words on Instagram appear to have cut little ice with the 38-year-old handed a suspension that covers a half dozen League Cup games, while former Barcelona and Spain star Busquets has received a two-game ban.<\/p>\n
Centre-back Thomas Aviles has been given a three-game ban for violent conduct, and Sounders coach Steven Lenhart has also been banned for five fixtures for his part in the scuffle.<\/p>\n
The spitting incident is the latest in a string of controversies involving Suarez, who arrived at Liverpool in January 2011 just a handful of months after biting Otman Bakkal while at Ajax, for which he was given a seven-game ban.<\/p>\n
In 2013, Suarez bit Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic during a 2-2 draw at Anfield, which earned him a 10-game suspension, before a similar incident occurred with Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini in the 2014 World Cup, while playing for Uruguay. FIFA suspended him for four months following that incident.<\/p>\n
In 2011 he was handed an eight-game sanction for being found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra and ordered to pay a \u00a340,000 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is involved in fresh controversy and has been given a hefty suspension for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,134,56682,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-118595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-luis-suarez","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – AUGUST 31: Head of security Gene Ramirez of the Seattle Sounders and Luis Su\u00e1rez #9 of Inter Miami CF interact after the Leagues Cup Final match between Seattle Sounders and Inter Miami CF at Lumen Field on August 31, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. The Seattle Sounders won 3-0. (Photo by Alika Jenner\/Getty Images)(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n