Suarez Digambarkan bagai Jaws, Dracula dan Hannibal di Internet
Suarez Parodied as Jaws, Dracula and Hannibal as Jokes Go Viral
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Montevideo (B2B) - Striker Uruguay Luis Suarez membuat jagat Twitter heboh akibat skandal gigitnya pada Piala Dunia, dan memicu keluarnya komentar legenda petinju kelas berat Evander Holyfield yang juga pernah digigit lawannya.
Kemenangan 1-0 Uruguay atas Italia dikotori oleh insiden Suarez menggigit pundak bek Italia Giorgio Chiellini, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sports.
"Kayaknya semua bagian tubuh boleh digigit," tulis Holyfield yang telinganya pernah digigit mantan lawannya Mike Tyson pada perebutan gelar juara tinju kelas berat dunia pada 1997.
Para pengguna media sosial lainnya menyiarkan foto montase penyerang Liverpool yang sudah dua kali dikenai sanksi akibat menggigit orang di Belanda dan Inggris.
Foto pertama memperlihatkan Suarez memakai masker Hannibal Lecter, tokoh fiksi dalam film yang dibintangi aktor Anthony Hopkins, "Silence of the Lambs."
Foto olok-olok kedua memperlihatkan Suarez menggantikan gambar hiu dalam poster lama film "Jaws" dengan komentar, "Tolong panggilkan Steven Spielberg."
Foto olok-olok lainnya menunjukkan Suarez sebagai manusia penghisap darah (vampire) dan pengisi poster serial televisi "Walking Dead."
Insiden menggigit bahu Chiellini ini sendiri menjadi foto halaman depan situs berita New York Times, sedangkan Huffington Post versi Inggris menuliskan headline, "Chewy Luis and the Blues." Chewy Luis adalah plesetan dari Chewy Louis, merek makanan anjing.
Suarez, sementara itu, menyanggah tudingan bahwa ia menggigit Chiellini, mengatakan kepada televisi Uruguay: "Ada insiden di lapangan, dan Anda tidak harus membesar-besarkannya di luar lapangan."
Pemain Italia yang mengaku digigit Suarez bersikeras Suarez telah menggigitnya, seraya menunjukkan lukanya kepada wasit pertandingan dan mengatakan kepada televisi Italia bahwa bekas luka gigitan masih terlihat.
Montevideo - Twitter users sank their teeth into Uruguay striker Luis Suarez on Wednesday after his World Cup bite scandal, flooding the network with images of him in a muzzle and calling for him to be banned.
Uruguay´s 1-0 victory over Italy on Tuesday, which qualified them to the second round at the European team´s expense, was overshadowed by allegations Suarez got away with biting defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder.
Among those to use Twitter to chime in on the controversy was the victim of another infamous bite, boxing legend Evander Holyfield. "I guess any part of the body is up for eating," wrote Holyfield, whose ear was partly chomped off by rival Mike Tyson in a 1997 heavyweight fight.
Other social media users published photo montages of the Liverpool forward, who has been sanctioned twice before for biting players in the Netherlands and England.
One shows him with the mask of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional, cannibalistic serial killer portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in "Silence of the Lambs."
In another movie meme, Suarez replaced the shark in an old poster of the movie "Jaws" with the comment: "Someone call Steven Spielberg."
Others have him sporting a dog´s cone collar -- used to stop pets biting or scratching themselves -- and many more with vampire fangs, or as part of the cast of the zombie television show "Walking Dead."
The incident made the front page of the New York Times web site, while the Huffington Post´s British version used the headline "Chewy Luis and the Blues."
Suarez, meanwhile, shrugged at the accusations that he bit Chiellini, telling Uruguayan television: "There are things that happen on the pitch, and you should not make such a big deal out of them."
The Italian player was adamant Suarez had bitten him, showing his wound to the referee during the game and telling Italian television that he still had a mark after the game.
