2024-02-29 12:32:37
Paul Pogba was sanctioned with 4 years without playing football
Adrian Mutu, a spoiled talent
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Updated 02/29/2024 13:32 CET
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Touré bike
Ivory Coast
Yaya Touré’s older brother was banned from playing football for six months after testing positive for an undisclosed substance. He used the excuse that he was taking diet pills and that could have been the reason.
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Edgar Davids
Netherlands
There have been few defensive midfielders like Edgar Davids, but he also has his dark past. The Dutchman tested positive for Nandrolone in 2001 and was away from the playing field for four months.
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Jaap Stam
Netherlands
The Dutchman Jaap Stam was sidelined for precisely the same substance, Nandrolone, for a total of four months.
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Pep Guardiola
Spain
To top off the positive results for Nandrolone, Pep Guardiola was also one of those who received a four-month ban when he played for Brescia, which led him not to play in the World Cup in Korea and Japan. However, in 2007 he was acquitted.
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Romário
Brazil
Romário, one of the best players to ever wear the Brazil shirt, tested positive when there was very little left in his career. It was in 2007 when he tested positive for Finasteride, a substance he found in an anti-alopecia pill he had been taking for 13 years. He was gone 4 months.
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Samir Nasri
France
Samir Nasri received one of the harshest sanctions known. The Frenchman was away from the soccer fields for 18 months after, as a Sevilla soccer player, he tested positive after undergoing intravenous vitamin treatment in the United States, something that is not allowed by the World Anti-Doping Agency Code.
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Adrian died
Romania
The case of Adrián Mutu was one of the most famous. The forward, during his time at Chelsea, tested positive for cocaine and received a 7-month ban. It wasn’t enough for him. Years later, in 2010, he tested positive again with Fiorentina, with a ban of another 6 months.
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Rio Ferdinand
England
Although it was not a confirmed positive, there was little missing. Rio Ferdinand was banned for 8 months after refusing to take a random test in September 2003, which led to him missing the World Cup in Portugal.
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Diego Maradona
Argentina
There has not been a case in history as high-profile as that of Diego Armando Maradona. As well known for his football as for his scandals. He was sanctioned twice with 15 months without football after testing positive for cocaine, the second during the 1994 World Cup.
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Frank de Boer
Netherlands
Like other Dutch compatriots, Frank de Boer tested positive for Nandrolone when he was a Barça player in 2001. He was initially banned for one year, but UEFA rectified it and he ended up serving two months.
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