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The French midfielder is not the only case of use of prohibited substances in football. From Maradona to Flachi's problems, we retrace the most famous episodes.
Testosterone-positive Paul Pogba shocked the world of calcium. The French Juventus midfielder, stuck in the pits for practically the entire last season, was trying to get back in Allegri's reach, but the doping test he was subjected to after Udinese-Juventus completely changed the scenarios. The last similar case concerned Palomino dell'Atalanta, then returned after four months off the field, but in football there have been no shortage of more or less sensational cases of doping even if in recent years they have been less and less.
2001 OF NANDROLONE
At the beginning of the 2000s doping in football was an issue on the agenda and not just because of Zdenek Zeman's statements. In 2001, the cases of nandrolone, an anabolic steroid always derived from testosterone, were different.
Pep Guardiola (Brescia, 4 months disqualification - then acquitted)
Edgar Davids (Juventus, 4 months)
Frank de Boer (Barcelona)
Jaap Stam (Lazio, 5 months reduced to 4)
Cristian Bucchi and Salvatore Monaco (Perugia)
Igor Shalimov
Fernando Couto
Nicola Caccia and Stefano Sacchetti (Piacenza)
François Gillet (Bari)
THE MOST STRIKING CASES
Doping in football is not always linked to prohibited substances to improve sports performance on the field. Among the most striking cases, in fact, there are also situations in which this de facto use had nothing to do with football. The most classic is the case of Diego Armando Maradona.
Maradona - The Pibe de Oro in the course of his career was disqualified 2 times for doping test positivity, in 1991 for cocaine and in 1994 for ephedrine.
Caniggia - The blond Argentine striker also fell into the cocaine tunnel, the year after Maradona. Disqualification and abandonment of Italian football.
Borriello - Marco Borriello's case was debated because it also involved his then-girlfriend Belen Rodriguez. Found positive for prednisone and prednisolone (cortisone metabolites), he was disqualified for three months. The cause according to the reconstruction was the use of a cortisone cream to treat an infection of the private parts.
Peruzzi - Angelo Peruzzi was found positive for phentermine at the age of 18 after taking Lipopill. A year of disqualification for this substance that would have helped him avoid new muscle injuries.
Romario - In 2007 the Brazilian striker was found positive for finasteride, a product used to combat hair loss. The attacker did not ask for counter-analyses.
Iuliano - In 2008 the defender at that time in force at Ravenna did not pass the doping test testing positive for cocaine.
Mutu - The Romanian striker, passed by several teams in Italy, was forced to terminate his contract with Chelsea after being found positive for cocaine. For him 17 million euros fine.
Coachmen - On April 23, 2009, the defender was found positive for a cocaine metabolite during a targeted control of the Coni after Palermo-Torino. "I was wrong, I took a substance derived from cocaine on a Milanese evening, 10 days before Palermo-Torino. I was lucky because my family members have always been close to me. And Maurizio Zamparini is a second father: he could ask me for image damage, instead he kept me in Sicily for all two years of disqualification, lowering my salary".
Bachini and Flachi - Cocaina that also ruined the career of two other Italian league players, Jonathan Bachini and Francesco Flachi. Both found positive and relapsed.
Abel Xavier - The Portuguese defender with a past also in Roma in November 2005 was found positive for steroids. Result? 18 months of disqualification then reduced to 12.
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