Luis Suarez will be available to make his Barcelona debut in the first La Liga clasico of the 2014-15 season at Real Madrid on Oct. 25, the Catalan club has confirmed.
Suarez is serving a four-month ban imposed for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini when playing for Uruguay at the 2014 World Cup.
That game took place on June 24, with FIFA announcing the punishment two days later. That led to reports that the ban would be enforced until Oct. 26, thereby ruling the player out of the first clasico of the season.
However, Barca say the subsequent ruling by the Court of Arbitration
for Sport, which lessened the punishment by allowing Suarez to train and play in friendly games during his timeout, mandated that the ban was to
run from the day of the Italy vs. Uruguay game -- and therefore end on
Oct. 24.
A club statement
released soon after La Liga authorities had set the kickoff times for
that weekend's action said there was no doubt over the availability of
the 80 million euro summer signing from Liverpool.
"Luis Suarez can play the clasico which will be played at the [Estadio] Santiago Bernabeu on Oct. 25 at 18:00," the statement said.
"The Court of Arbitration for Sport [CAS] confirmed to FC Barcelona
that the Uruguay forward's ban ends the day before, at midnight on
Friday Oct. 24. Therefore Suarez can make his official debut as a Blaugrana player in the game against Real Madrid, should Luis Enrique decide to do so."
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