REVEALED: Why Suarez snubbed Fifa’s Ballon d’Or invite

REVEALED: Why Suarez snubbed Fifa’s Ballon d’Or invite

The Barcelona striker turned down the opportunity to attend the awards ceremony in Zurich earlier this month after being named the best player at the Club World Cup in Japan

Luis Suarez has revealed he rejected an invitation from Fifa to the Ballon d’Or ceremony and still harbours a grudge against football’s governing body.

Suarez still maintains he was harshly treated by Fifa, who handed the Barcelona striker a worldwide ban from all football-related activities totalling four months, plus nine international matches, for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini during the 2014 World Cup.

The former Liverpool striker has since become an integral part of the success Barcelona have enjoyed under Luis Enrique and was named as the star player during the recent Club World Cup tournament.

The 28-year-old was invited to the ceremony in Zurich, where his team-mate Lionel Messi collected his fifth Ballon d’Or, but refused to attend, intimating that the invite was contrived.

“Fifa invited me to the Ballon d’Or gala using the excuse that I’d been named the best player at the Club World Cup. I don’t think they’ve ever invited the winner of that prize before and it just so happens that they thought to invite me”, Suarez told Ovacion.

“It was a tournament that I was really excited about and I tried not to think about who had organised it.”

SOUCRE: GOAL.COM

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