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It is no longer news that Uruguay's top scorer at the World Cup, Luis Suarez has been sanctioned for the unprofessional conduct he displayed in the game against Italy.

The player has been punished with a four months ban from all football related matters and compulsory exclusion from nine international matches involving the Uruguayan team.

With this ban, the player is not expected to play football again until August, especially for his club Liverpool who kick off their English Premiership campaign against Southampton on August 16.

As the ban states, Suarez will not play in the 2014 FIFA World Cup last 16 clash between Uruguay and Colombia and he is also not allowed to watch the game or any other football match from the stands until the four months elapses.

Several reactions have followed the ban, the most striking one coming from the victim of the bite incident in the Italian game; Giorgio Chiellini.

Chiellini's biting incident is not the first Suarez's journey to FIFA sanction; he bit Otman Bakkal during his time at Ajax, he also bit Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea and he has never been punished so severely as FIFA did.

''it is an assault on the poor,'' Uruguay's president said reacting to the ban; ''He is a natural rebel and expresses his anger naturally.'' President Jose Mujica said this regarding his compatriot.

Argentine great Diego Amando Maradona - a no strnager to controversy - known to be a rival of FIFA also spoke in defence of the player: ''The FIFA sanction is shameful, theyu have no sensitivitty to towards the fans.'' Maradona went ahead to say that ''Suarez didn't kill anyone,'' he also went ahead to call FIFA ''an incredible Mafia''

The biting victim Giorgio Chiellini shared his sympathy with the player:''My only thought is for Luis and his family.

''I believe that the proposed formula is excessive. I sincerely hope that he will be allowed, at least, to stay close to his team-mates.''

Chiellini pleads ''Such a ban is really alienating for a player,'' The Italian defender revealed that he feels no ''joy, revenge or anger against Suarez.''

Brazillian player Fred called it ''A fight for space,'' stemming from goosebumps. He also thinks that the punishment is ''a bit severe,'' even though he admits that Suarez deserves to be punished.

Players and fans have reacted, the Uruguayan Football Association have confirmed they will appeal the ban.

People in the house have spoken; many support that the punishment was deserving while some share sympathy that it is too severe, what do you all think about it?

Some say Suarez's punishment is severe, some plead leniency for the player, what do you make of all these?

Reactions Trailing Suarez's Four Months Ban From Football

Ghana's keyman at the World Cup Asamoah Gyan has come out to declare that the Black Stars players gave up their self for the country at the World Cup despite their participation being brought to a relatively premature end.

Prior the game, Ghana was grappling with disciplinary actions against two players who were suspended from the team for 'intolerable' acts while the players were said to have promised a boycott of the game if their bonuses were not paid in full.

A move that was quickly responded to by their president who ensured that the money totalling about 3 Million dollars got to them in cash.

Ghana lost 2-1 to Portugal, had they won, they would have been smiling, dancing and demanding for more bonuses to the World's attention.

Gyan's words of 'strict loyalty' to the nation are being countered and spat at by in some sections of the Ghanaian media.

Gyan said: ''We've got young quality players that can come back strongly and die for the nation again.''

A reporter in Ghana reacting to this statement regards the comment as 'superfluously fictitious' and 'implausibly unrealistic' to an 'improbable point of disbelief.'

Although Ghana have exited the World Cup, Asamoah leaves with the record as the first African player to score in three consecutive World Cup and Africa's top scorer with 6 goals, beating the Legendary Roger Milla's record.

Gyan is also Ghana's all time leading goal scorer with 42 goals in 81 caps.

Ghanaian journalist challenges Asamoah Gyan to explain his 'dying for Ghana' statement

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The Nigerian Rugby national team, the Stallions have moved up in the latest IRB rankings for the month of June.

After placing third at the just concluded Africa Cup 1C in Gaborone, Botswana, the team was awarded points which saw it elevate three places from the previous 81 to the current 78.

The rankings are posted on the website of the International Rugby Board (IRB).

With this upward move, Nigeria is now the 13th in the African rankings, coming behind South Africa who maintain the top position in Africa and 2 in the World; Namibia 22 in the World and 2nd in Africa, with Zimbabwe coming in 3rd and 30 in the World.

Other African team sin the top 100 are:

Nigeria's Black Stallions came third at the recently concluded Africa Rugby Cup 1C

Nigeria Score Points In Recent IRB Ranking

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Celine Krapf_Pulse

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Reactions Trailing Suarez's Four Months Ban From Football

Gyan Says They Can Die For Ghana

Nigeria Score Points In Recent IRB Ranking