Liverpool: 5 Most Baffling Luis Suarez Moments

4. That World Cup Handball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQyOt7L0LZo&noredirect=1 The biggest controversial moment Luis Suarez has ever been a part of was at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. It was Suarez and his Uruguay team going up against the last African team left in the tournament Ghana in the quarter finals. Down in the final few minutes of a close match Ghana had a real chance of being the first African team to ever get to a World Cup semi-final. Ghana had a free kick and had they scored from it they would have won but as the header went towards the top corner Luis Suarez did his best goalkeeper impression clearly slapping the ball off the goal line. It prevented a certain goal and sent every African fan in the stadium howling with rage at the clear injustice of it. A clear and simple red card for handball for Suarez and a penalty for Ghana but Ghana were shaken under the pressure of trying to win the game on one kick and I€™m sure by the clear and unthinkable cheating Suarez did just to stop a goal. They missed the penalty taking the match into a penalty shootout with Ghana also lost knocking them out of the tournament. Even after playing extra goalkeeper Suarez still managed to make what he had done worse by waiting near the tunnel as the penalty was taken then clearly celebrating as it was missed. That moment of handball made Suarez for a while the most hated man in Africa Suarez no doubt won his team the match by cheating now there isn€™t really much moral argument to be made as most of us would take a win in the World Cup quarter finals by any means and certainly Suarez should never be held up as a role model to kids. However celebrating down the tunnel after the fact thinking he played a key part in his team victory even gloating about it afterwards is very sad. It was deeply hurtful to Ghana who became well liked underdogs throughout the tournament and to be cruelly robbed a semi-final place wasn€™t nice and only racked up the hatred on Suarez. The most baffling part of Suarez thinking he could play rush goalkeeper is that because of the red card he missed the semi-final matchup with Holland. Uruguay of course without him lost so in the end Suarez€™s team sacrifice and making himself the villain was pretty much all for nothing.