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CONCACAF decides biting and nipple pinching is slightly worse than playing while ineligible

July 23, 2017

It’s been a busy Gold Cup for CONCACAF’s disciplinary committee

Deciding punishments is never an easy task, but the 2017 Gold Cup has been especially difficult for CONCACAF’s disciplinary committee. First, there was the matter of figuring out what to do with an ineligible player playing anyway. That was deemed worthy of a two-match stadium ban for French Guiana’s Florent Malouda (which he ignored). Then they had to rule on not one, but TWO El Salvador players biting opponents in their quarterfinal against the U.S. Plus, for an added degree of absurdity, a purple nurple thrown in for good measure.

Darwin Ceren bit Omar Gonzalez on the back…

And Henry Romero bit and twisted the nipple of Jozy Altidore…

The punishments? A three-match ban for Ceren and a six match ban for Romero (presumably three for the bite and three for the nurple).

(For reference, Luis Suarez was given a seven match ban for his first biting incident in 2010 by the KNVB.)

So biting and nipple play is only a little bit worse than playing in a match you’re not allowed to play in. Then again, all of these incidents have been so weird that it’s hard to blame anyone for not punishing them correctly. I’m assuming the members of the disciplinary committee have been spending most of their time trying to determine whether they’re being pranked.


 

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