VillaChris Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 (edited) Wasn't their some trial years back involving some doctor from Juventus. Think it involved Zdenek Zeman. A few years back there were also some allegations of a Spanish Doctor who worked at Real Sociedad I think and also treated some Spanish internationals and Rafael Nadal. After a good fourth place with some sparkling play, Zeman launched allegations about the abuse of pharmaceutical products in Italian football, citing former Juventus playersGianluca Vialli and Alessandro Del Piero (of using creatine) in July 1998. As a consequence, Courts begun a round of trials, until Juventus sport doctor Riccardo Agricola was found guilty of administering excessive pharmaceuticals to players between 1994 and 1998 and condemned to a 1 year and ten months jail term in 2004, even though he was absolved the next year by a Court of Appeal. Edited December 14, 2014 by VillaChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 I'm not sure epo would really help with the type of exertion football requires. Sprinting 50m at a time then stopping suddenly and repeating or sudden bursts and stop start is more to do with muscles in correct places. Blood volume helps more with endurance sports like running or cycling. Footballers would take epo to be able to train longer and harder, not necessarily taking it for match days. The testing in football is very relaxed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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