SUAREZ FELT UNSUPPORTED

Luis Suarez believes that he was not supported well by his club Liverpool in the racism controversy in 2011.

Suarez had suffered an eight-match ban for the comment that he was believed to have passed on the French player Patrice Evra in a match between Liverpool and Manchester United that year. The investigators appointed by the Football Association had confirmed that the Uruguayan player did say ‘Negro’ during his conversation with Evra and thus, he was a racism culprit.

Suarez also has admitted to have said ‘Negro’, but, according to him, he was speaking Spanish instead of English while talking to Evra on the pitch and the meaning of ‘Negro’ is completely different in Spanish than what it is in English.

Suarez has devoted a whole chapter of his upcoming book to that racism controversy. He has written that he still feels sad about how his image was portrayed during that incident. In the words of the striker, “I definitely had said that word. I am not denying that. But, the language that I was using was not English. That’s the most important thing. Negro has different meanings in English and Spanish.”

“When I was first let known that I had been alleged of racism, I was deeply hurt. I could not believe that because I had not done any such thing. The legal representatives of the club were repeatedly consoling me saying that it would be a short ban, but, I was not concerned about the ban. I just wanted to prove my innocence which I could not eventually.”

“I do feel that Liverpool could have dealt with it in a better way. It still hurts when I look back.”

Suarez is a Barcelona player now. He has recently made his debut there versus Real Madrid, which was one of the weekly game picks at sportsbrothersreport.com. Real Madrid won 3-1.