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Giorgio Chiellini, the Italian defender who Luis Suarez bit, has hit out at the Uruguay striker's four month ban, calling it 'excessive'. The defender spoke after hundreds of fans, including the country's president Jose Mujica, gathered outside Montevideo's Carrasco international airport to await the player's arrival before he was due to head home to the resort of Solymar, around 25 miles outside the city.