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Uruguay's Luis Suarez

For going down in history as the man who robbed Ghana of the chance of winning the world cup, and for breaking the heart of the entire African nation.

In the Ghana vs. Uruguay quarterfinal match, one of best matches of the World Cup 2010, Mr. Suarez decided to play goalkeeper right at the last minute of the extra time by deliberately stopping a guaranteed goal for Ghana with his hands.

Luis Suarez Swats the ball

As the pressure and tension were immense, Asamoah Gyan, very unfortunately, missed the penalty shot.

Now shit happens, and it could always be worse (it could’ve been the final match), but what infuriated me the most is that the Uruguayans considered this to be an act of heroism. “Taking one for the team”, the Uruguayan coach said.

The BS doesn’t stop here, Oscar Tabarez, adds:

“You are telling me the player had to let the ball go in? Is that football? I think you’re missing something really important here.
“I think you call it cheating when you try to score a goal with the hand, to take advantage when the referee cannot see that.
“We are missing something really important. When you are naive, you don’t win football games.
“Suarez put himself in front of the whole country and because of that Uruguay is in the semi-finals.”

What Tabarez is basically saying, it’s not cheating if you’re doing when you really have to. The ends justify the means.

I hope no one takes his words seriously or we’ll be seeing more sleazy acts of “heroism” and “taking one for the team”.

Now off to see some Germans getting their behinds kicked by the Ar-kh-antina!

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