--- title: World Cup Soccer: Best Memes of Uruguay's Luis Suarez Biting description: Naturally, they include plenty of vampire imagery canonical: https://time.com/2918383/soccer-player-luis-suarez-just-bit-someone-again-so-here-come-the-inevitable-memes/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-24T20:20:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:08.499Z og:title: The Best Luis Suarez Memes og:description: The star footballer has bitten another player yet again og:url: https://time.com/2918383/soccer-player-luis-suarez-just-bit-someone-again-so-here-come-the-inevitable-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte63d001323c71607/6986991355a85906b5a8185a/rtr3viul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1563 og:image:height: 879 og:image:alt: Uruguay's Luis Suarez reacts after clashing with Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during their 2014 World Cup Group D soccer match at the Dunas arena in Natal og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Best Luis Suarez Memes twitter:description: The star footballer has bitten another player yet again twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte63d001323c71607/6986991355a85906b5a8185a/rtr3viul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Soccer Player Luis Suarez Just Bit Someone Again, So Here Come the Inevitable Memes > Sponsored content. 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Tony Gentile—REUTERS by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 24, 2014 8:20 PM UTC Uruguay’s star striker Luis Suarez[ bit another player ](https://vine.co/v/MtJ1Km0MhVj)during his team’s game against Italy Tuesday. If that surprises you, it shouldn’t — he’s already been [suspended twice ](http://time.com/2918266/luis-suarez-giorgio-chiellini-italy-uruguay/)for the same thing. When Suarez broke skin once again — this time biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini — it revived the beloved Internet tradition of Suarez [meme-making.](http://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2013/apr/22/luis-suarez-bite-10-best-memes-pictures?) As doctored images of the star footballer begin to circulate across the web once again, check out some of our favorites: > [](https://twitter.com/PelicanPierre/status/481498324260765697) > [](https://twitter.com/Veikkaajat/status/481495521056403456) > [](https://twitter.com/%5Ftheworldcup/status/481498169554264064) > [](https://twitter.com/Chrisreed619/status/481502213521436672) > [](https://twitter.com/FootballFanCast/status/479693664760135680) > [](https://twitter.com/Slate/status/477623973245886465) > [](https://twitter.com/NicolasMarchena/status/481494970940289024) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2918383/soccer-player-luis-suarez-just-bit-someone-again-so-here-come-the-inevitable-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2918383/soccer-player-luis-suarez-just-bit-someone-again-so-here-come-the-inevitable-memes/"},"headline":"Soccer Player Luis Suarez Just Bit Someone Again, So Here Come the Inevitable Memes","datePublished":"2014-06-24T20:20:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:08.499Z","description":"Naturally, they include plenty of vampire imagery","url":"https://time.com/2918383/soccer-player-luis-suarez-just-bit-someone-again-so-here-come-the-inevitable-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","viral","Soccer","World Cup","memes"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte63d001323c71607/6986991355a85906b5a8185a/rtr3viul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte63d001323c71607/6986991355a85906b5a8185a/rtr3viul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Uruguay's Luis Suarez reacts after clashing with Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during their 2014 World Cup Group D soccer match at the Dunas arena in Natal","caption":"Uruguay's Luis Suarez reacts after clashing with Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during their 2014 World Cup Group D soccer match at the Dunas arena in Natal","creditText":"Tony Gentile—REUTERS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2918383/soccer-player-luis-suarez-just-bit-someone-again-so-here-come-the-inevitable-memes/","name":"Soccer Player Luis Suarez Just Bit Someone Again, So Here Come the Inevitable Memes"}}]}] ```