Uruguay players have jumped to support Liverpool striker Luis Suarez after his race ruling.
And the former international Richard Morales, who is black, insisted: "[Patrice] Evra should not play at being Padre Popelka."
Father Ernesto Popelka is a revered former footballer, priest and psychologist.
"This [ban] leaves a bad feeling," said Ernesto Irureta, the national director of sport. "What is happening in Europe is a product of their [wider] problems, not of what happens between players - and one of those is racism. That reflects a lack of values in society. We have a country with [racial] differences but it is a long way from those in the Old Continent [Europe]. Suárez may act with words or gestures in certain moments but this ban is exaggerated, absurd and out of place."The striker Sebastián Abreu insisted that Suárez has "3 million Uruguayans behind him".