Speaking of doping in football is not an easy task, both in this area, the world of football is akin to the world of silence. However, periodically, several cases come to light. But few lead to real penalties. For fear of killing the goose that lays golden eggs, the show must go on somehow ...
Chronology of incidents reported:
In the 1950
On tour in Europe during the uprising in Budapest, Budapest Honved experienced a turbulent history. Then considered the best football team in the world, this club would not have balked on amphetamines by rumors ...
In the 1960
In the Cold War, Soviet countries practicing doping state in various sports including football. The historian Giselher Spitzer described this phenomenon very well in Germany where he believed players from Dynamo Berlin were spiked without their knowledge.
In the 1970
South America is known for practicing what is euphemistically called "hormone rebalancing." Sport lowers hormone levels, doctors then prescribe supplements to regain the athlete's normal rate.
Captain of the German team in 1974 , Franz Beckenbauer said in 1976 in the magazine Stern had "a special method to remain at the top level: the injection of (his) own blood."
In the 80
Stayed in all French papers, the goalkeeper Harald Schumacher poet published the book "Whistle" in 1987 which describes the tendencies of the German team for ephedrine that develops between other aggressive ...
The French Brazilian José Touré also tells in his book "Extensions of hell" experience Nantes and medical visits before the match that gave rise to strange "bites vitamins.
early 90s
1994
Ultimate football star, Diego Maradona tested positive for ephedrine during the 1994 World Cup in the United States. It is excluded from the competition.
1997-1999
in full preparation for the World Cup, a random check is conducted during the course of preparing the team in Tignes France. This operation triggers the wrath of the coaching team of France.
Two players from Italian club Perugia have tested positive for nandrolone from the 2 th day of the Championship.
The President of the Medical Committee of FIFA, Dr. Michel D'Hooghe said that the 1998 World Cup was that of EPO, before you dismiss these remarks.
2001
Four years after the French episode, new infections for nandrolone affecting other European championships in 2001 to begin by Portugal (31 cases!), Italy ( nine players in Serie A with Fernando Couto, Josep Guardiola, Edgar Davids, Jaap Stam), Spain (Frank de Boer, Carlos Gurpegui in 2002), and involve a majority of Dutch players. All inherit the final few months of that suspension. The doctor of the Dutch national team Huib Plemper is licensed the same year. This decision will not prevent the Dutch defender Jaap Stam tested positive to him as the nandronole in October of that year.
As we approach the World Cup, FIFA still had not signed an agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency. The beginning of stormy relations between the two bodies ... Finally, an agreement is signed, it states that controls on four players will be drawn, two per team and per game during the 2002 World Cup.
2002
In February 2002, two senior executive club Juventus are before the courts, accused of administering dangerous drugs to health. The prosecutor wants the scroll bar nearly 150 witnesses, including a great many glories in international football. Convened at the helm, Dr. Jean-Marcel Ferret team doctor in France, confirms that Italy-based players taking creatine regularly between 1995 and 1998. Other revelation, the Italian club Pharmacy housed 281 types of medicines, an amount deemed "incompatible with a structure not health but rather the amount that a hospital should have small or moderate. The same year, Zidane and Deschamps acknowledged taking creatine at Juventus, the product was not banned in Italy.
2003
Italy's "widows Calcio" through a report Guariniello ordered by the judge and reveals that former Italian footballers die much earlier than average including ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) also known as Charcot's disease or Lou Gehrig.
2004
The Romanian Adrian Mutu (Chelsea, English-D1) was tested positive for cocaine in 2004. But that coach Arsene Wenger of Arsenal who created the event this year in England reported having had doubts before the "red blood cells abnormally high" some recruits of his club. "Some clubs boost the players without their knowledge," he adds.
2005
The video Fabio Cannavaro injecting the Neoton (creatine) intravenously, the eve of the UEFA Cup final 1999 between Parma and Olympique de Marseille scandal. The Neoton not prohibited, was part of the pharmacopoeia of Juventus. Moreover, the trial of Juventus ends with the acquittal on appeal of officers previously sentenced.
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