Luis Suarez admits to biting Giorgio Chiellini and apologizes

Luis Suárez has admitted biting Giorgio Chiellini, and apologized via his Twitter account on Monday. The Uruguayan striker was banned from all football related activities for four months in the wake of his third on-field biting incident on June 24.

In the statement, Suárez says that he deeply regrets the incident, and that he vows to the public that no incident like that will occur again. While it has all the right talking points, it will be interesting to see how fans and the media react, especially since his initial defense to FIFA was that he lost his balance and hit his teeth on the Italian.

In 2010, Suárez bit PSV’s Otman Bakkal while playing for Ajax, and was suspended for two matches and fined an undisclosed amount. In 2013, he bit Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanović during an English Premier League match, and was suspended for ten matches. Suárez was also suspended in 2011 for racially abusing Patrice Evra.