SEPP BLATTER hopes to see Luis Suarez back in action soon. Suarez was sent home early in shame after biting Giorgio Chiellini in Uruguay’s group stage win over Italy.

Given that it was the third time he had bitten a fellow professional, FIFA’s disciplinary committee banned the Barcelona forward from “all football-related activity” for four months.

There was outcry in Uruguay at the ban, but Blatter said the record punishment was completely out of his hands.

The FIFA president felt sorry to lose Suarez early from the tournament, and he hopes the Uruguay striker will be ready and determined to represent his country again soon.

“As a footballer I feel with him that such a punishment...

it hurts, it hurts,”

Blatter said at his final press conference in Rio.

“But as FIFA president I have to accept the decisions that are taken by our independent committees.

“I do hope that this player will come back to football because on the pitch what he has shown so far... I have seen his capacity technically and tactically to do what he can do – his smelling of the goal...

“I do hope he will be back, He is now in one of the greatest clubs in the world.”

Prior to the World Cup there were serious fears about security, transport and stadia, but Blatter thinks Brazil 2014 passed the test with flying colours.

The Swiss rejected an invitation to describe the tournament as the best in its 84-year history, but he did give Brazil a glowing report – even though it was delivered in a bizarre fashion.

“We were calculating last night using all the computers and facebooks and all that, and then out of ten we came 9.25,” Blatter said.

“Brazil has improved since South Africa (whom he rated as nine out of ten).

“Those who get a clear ten at universities have deals with the professor.”

In terms of excitement, few World Cups can compete with this one.

There were 171 goals – a record only matched by France 98 – and there were plenty of shocks too.

Costa Rica’s run to the quarter- finals was a genuine good news story, Colombia also surprised a few by reaching the same stage while Algeria, Switzerland and Mexico also won many admirers.

But the biggest shock came with Germany’s 7-1 annihilation of Brazil – one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history.