{"id":27342,"date":"2014-06-25T14:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=27342"},"modified":"2014-06-25T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:01:57","slug":"fans-win-after-betting-on-suarez-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/06\/fans-win-after-betting-on-suarez-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans win after betting on Suarez bite"},"content":{"rendered":"
Uruguay striker, Luis Suarez, probably has a lot on his plate right now, with him facing the possibility of a lengthy ban from FIFA for biting Italian defender Chiellini in their game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
His actions however have left over a hundred Scandinavian fans salivating after they won up to \u00a31,600 for betting on the Uruguayan sinking his teeth into an opponent at the World Cup.<\/p>\n
With odds of 175-1 offered by the online bookmaker Betsafe for this happening, the fans took the chance and bet amounts ranging from 80 Swedish Korona (\u00a37).<\/p>\n
Suarez who has bitten opponents twice before in his career, at previous club Ajax and recently playing for current club Liverpool against Chelsea, appeared to have taken a nip at Chiellini’s shoulder with Uruguay set to be eliminated.<\/p>\n
Godin scored a late winner to send Uruguay into the second round but Suarez’s bite was the main talking point of the game.<\/p>\n
In Norway, Richard Helmersen, who won \u00a31,600, told TV2: “It’s really quite surreal.<\/p>\n
“I was watching the game and when it happened, I start to get messages from buddies who knew I’d put money on it. It’s quite fun.”<\/p>\n
Jonathan Braeck, a 23-year-old substitute teacher from Stenungssund in Sweden,\u00a0 is now set for a payout of 14,000 krona (\u00a31,225) for his wager.<\/p>\n
First I thought I\u2019d bet a little more, but a friend said I was just wasting my money,\u201d Braeck told the SportExpressen newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Italy took over the game you knew that he could go a little crazy,\u201d he added. \u201cI didn\u2019t think that he would bite, but that he\u2019d do something stupid. Then he did the best stupid thing that he could do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Braeck, very tongue-in-cheek, says he will spend some of his winnings on travelling to a Premier League game in England to watch Liverpool’s fierce rivals Manchester United.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a trip to Manchester. I\u2019m going to try to find someone to go with me to Manchester United,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I had [Su\u00e1rez\u2019s] home address I\u2019d send him a thank-you card. It was very nice of him to bite and give me a trip to Manchester.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
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Uruguay striker, Luis Suarez, probably has a lot on his plate right now, with him facing the possibility of a lengthy ban from FIFA for biting Italian defender Chiellini in their game on Tuesday. His actions however have left over a hundred Scandinavian fans salivating after they won up to \u00a31,600 for betting on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":27217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[115,29,3,1507],"yoast_head":"\n