Italy Captain Fabio Cannavaro Fails Drug Test
Juventus defender and Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro has failed a drugs test after taking a medicine that contained the banned substance cortisone.
The former World Player of the Year was allegedly stung by a wasp and took a medicine that contained cortisone on August 29.
He requested an exemption on the grounds of having taken a medication in the case of an emergency but his request was missing a document and while awaiting a decision he was subjected to an anti-doping test, which returned a positive result.
Sources close to his club Juventus have claimed he took nothing more than an anti-allergy medicine.
The Italian Football Federation say they were immediately made aware of the situation as Juventus had sent a copy of the exemption request to their doctor just before Cannavaro joined up with the national team ahead of matches against Georgia and Bulgaria on September 5 and 9.
Cannavaro be interviewed by the Italian Olympic Committee’s (Coni) anti-doping prosecutor Etorre Torri on Friday morning in Turin.
Posted on October 8, 2009 | Filed Under Football
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