MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay's players' union plans to ask FIFA to annul its nine-match international ban on Luis Suarez for biting an opponent at last year's World Cup in light of investigations into corruption at world soccer's governing body.
The union, in consultation with Barcelona striker Suarez, has decided to present a petition to the world players' union FIFPro to be raised to FIFA's executive committee, its legal adviser Ernesto Liotti said on Thursday.
"With these facts (of alleged corruption), FIFA's decisions in the last few years have come under a mantle of suspicion," Liotti told Reuters referring to the arrests of top FIFA officials in Zurich this week.