Doping in Football

Harmonica wrote:Oh the irony in Germans talking about doping, supposed doping.

rwo power wrote:

Harmonica wrote:Oh the irony in Germans talking about doping, supposed doping.

Well, at least here we try to get the stuff at the light. As a matter of fact, I'm really annoyed that Jan Ullrich seems to get away scot free.

As for the 1954 football NT that you probably allege too, in that time neither drug testing was thought of nor the fact that there might be negative side effects (IIRC there were at least two or three of the players who died of liver afflictions in comparatively young years).

Be/\/ceCALI wrote:

rwo power wrote:As for the 1954 football NT that you probably allege too, in that time neither drug testing was thought of nor the fact that there might be negative side effects (IIRC there were at least two or three of the players who died of liver afflictions in comparatively young years).

you're right, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen

Spain rocked by doping claims

Spanish football is reeling from doping allegations which have implicated the top levels of its administration.

Inaki Badiola, the former president of Real Sociedad, admitted the club paid around $423,000 a year to Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor on trial for doping in professional cycling, among other sports.

A Telegraph report details footage of Badiola, who was president at Real Sociedad in 2008 and 2009, talking about the payments, as well as revealing his administration sacked two doctors after an internal investigation found players had been involved in a doping program for six years prior to his arrival.

Badiola implicated previous presidents at the club, including Jose Luis Astiazaran, who is now the president of the Spanish Primera Division’s governing body. Astiazaran denied any involvement on Monday.

Spanish sport has been under the spotlight since Fuentes was arrested as part of Operation Puerto in 2006, although he has been denied permission to reveal the names of any clients outside cycling, during his trial.

After Fuentes’s arrest seven years ago, police seized 186 bags of blood belonging to professional athletes from his Madrid-based clinic.

In an interview with Spanish website AS.com, Badiola claimed Fuentes was involved with Real Sociedad in 2002-2003, when it finished second in the Primera Division.

“$364,000 has been spent annually during a number of years in payment to Eufemiano Fuentes, undeclared. Including the year La Real finished second,” Badiola said.

“Eufemiano Fuentes, from Operation Puerto, was the man who provided the medicine. We’ve been buying strange medicines for $442,000 per year.

“Real Sociedad acquired medicines for $425,000 that were not listed in the accounts. This means there is another type of accounting at practice here. There is no supporting documentation, no bills or delivery details that can be identified.

“We know what types of medicine they are and we won’t get involved in what they were or weren’t used for.

“We know of the entries in the other accounts, the days payments were made and the people who were paid.”

Badiola said he found payments for mysterious medicines when he took over the club and audited the accounts. Doctors Eduardo Escobar and Antxon Gorrotxategi were sacked, but there was no investigation of players.

“They acquired substances which were not authorised,” Badiola said. “In my years, 2008 and 2009, there were no strange medical practices. We did an audit of the previous six years.

“We have not gone against the players and we do not know if all were subjected to such practices. No names were mentioned. Our investigation was directed against the physicians. I think in football, doping may not be as necessary as, for example, in cycling.

“The system is poorly regulated, there is a failure and doping is way ahead, with doctors who can cover it up perfectly. There are urine tests which do not seek EPO, which denotes a neglect and an unwillingness to clean up this sport.”

fatman123 wrote:Theres been something about doping in AFL throughtout the last few weeks, is this the same guy?

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