Video: Reporter frustates Luis Suarez with questions on his biting incident, leaves interview midway

Luis Suarez
Luis Suarez poses with the Golden Boot Trophy as the best goal scorer in all European Leagues last season with his wife Sofia Balbi in Spain earlier this October.

Luis Suarez is still not ready to comfortably talk the day when he bit Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini in an FIFA World Cup encounter in June.

During an interview with Guardian’s Simon Hattenstone, the Uruguayan striker was severely annoyed with the several questions on the incident that kept him away from action for four months, and left the interview midway stating he had to pick up his daughter.

The interview involved Suarez talk about his mistakes as well as his personal life which involves him in becoming a father and husband.

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Some questions that stand-out as the highlights from the interview:

Simon: “Do you think there’s something wrong with you?”

Suarez: “I don’t know. I don’t really know what I can say to that.”

Simon: “I have an autistic friend who bites when he feels he’s losing control. Do you think you could be on the autistic spectrum?”

Suarez: “No, it doesn’t make me think that. Everyone has different ways of defending themselves. In my case, the pressure and tension came out in that way. There are other players who react by breaking someone’s leg, or smashing someone’s nose across their face. What happened with Chiellini is seen as worse. I understand why biting is seen so badly.”

when asked about using the racial slur against Patrice Evra

Suarez: “I know I was wrong with the biting and the diving, but I was accused of racism without any proof. There were lots of cameras, but no evidence. It hurts me the most that it was my word against theirs. Every culture has its way of expressing itself, and that’s a word people in Uruguay use all the time, whether somebody’s black or not black. It gets used a lot without those connotations, and that’s why it is completely different from how it is expressed in England, no?”

Simon: Did you mean to insult Evra, just not in a racist way?

Suarez: “No, not at any time. I just said, ‘Why, negro?’ and it was just like asking ‘Why?’ These are things that footballers say, that happen all the time.”

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