Luis Suarez is confronting a sudden end to his World Cup after Fifa declared it will research the Liverpool striker for professedly gnawing Italy's Giorgio Chiellini.
Suarez is prone to face a protracted boycott that would keep him out of whatever remains of the World Cup - however far his nation Uruguay advance - in the event that he is discovered blameworthy.
The 27 year-old left teeth-checks on Chiellini's shoulder in the wake of conflicting with him at the end of Uruguay's 1-0 win in Natal - where Fifa president Sepp Blatter was in participation - that saw the South Americans meet all requirements for the last 16.
A Fifa agent said: "We are anticipating the authority match reports and will accumulate all the fundamental components so as to assess the matter."
Fifa's disciplinary code sets a most extreme boycott of 24 matches or two years, yet the longest boycott in World Cup history was eight diversions for Italy's Mauro Tassotti for softening Spain's Luis Enrique's nose up 1994 with an elbow. Zinedine Zidane was given a three-match boycott for headbutting Marco Materazzi in the 2006 last.
Suarez has twice been banned for gnawing rivals - for 10 matches in 2013 for gnawing Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic and in 2010 he was given a seven-amusement boycott while playing for Ajax for gnawing PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal.
Fifa's disciplinary code permits move to be made reflectively by means of feature confirmation regardless of the fact that the occurrence has been seen by the arbitrator.
Article 77 of Fifa's disciplinary code states the disciplinary advisory group is in charge of "endorsing genuine encroachments which have gotten away from the match authorities' consideration" and "amending evident mistakes in the ref's disciplinary choices".
Suarez tossed himself to the ground after the episode holding his mouth - Chiellini guaranteed that was a swoop.
Chiellini told Italian TV slot Rai TV: "It was outrageous not to send Suarez off. It is clear, obvious.
"At that point there was the clear jump a short time later on the grounds that he knew exceptionally well that he did something that he shouldn't have done."
Italy manager Cesare Prandelli affirmed he had seen the nibble marks.
He said: "I didn't see Suarez gnawing him yet I saw the nibble checks on his shoulder however the arbitrator's partners were so occupied they didn't see anything.
"It's a disgrace, its a genuine disgrace that it turned out like this."
Jim Boyce, Britain's Fifa VP and leader of Fifa's refs trustees, communicated worries about Suarez's movements.
He said: "I have viewed the occurrence a few times on TV. There is probably Luis Suarez is a phenomenal footballer at the same time, by and by, his movements have abandoned him open to extreme feedback.
"Fifa must explore the episode genuinely and make whatever disciplinary move esteemed essential."
After his two objectives beat England on Tuesday, Suarez made reference to the feedback he had confronted over his bans for gnawing Ivanovic and racially mishandling Manchester United's Patrice Evra.
He said then: "Before the diversion an excess of individuals in England chuckled about my state of mind in the course of the last few years.
"This is a decent time for me. I need to see what they think now."
In any case, Suarez declined to discuss the Chiellini occurrence and Uruguay moved in around their talismanic striker.
Uruguay captain Diego Lugano said: "You couldn't have seen it today on the grounds that nothing happened. The most exceedingly awful of everything is the state of mind of Chiellini."
Uruguay chief Oscar Tabarez asserted Suarez was a focus for areas of the media however said he had not seen a replay of the episode.
Tabarez said: "On the off chance that it happened then I think the arbitrator needed to have seen it first. I didn't see the episode and I don't need anybody to represent me about it.
"Suarez, notwithstanding failures that he may have made, is a focus for specific areas of the media.
"On the off chance that we accept individuals are ambushing him, as has happened in this question and answer session, then we're going to safeguard him," he said. "He's an imperative player, an extremely critical individual to the gathering."