Circle of the tour Disqualification term: 6 months
In 2011, the Manchester City defender had problems with overweight, and, according to him, tried the weight loss pills that were in his wife. Toure was threatened with a 2-year-old ban, but after a 10-hour meeting, the circle was able to prove the commission that did not use doping purposefully. Therefore, the player took 6 months, after which he won the APL from Man City, played for Liverpool and Soldik. With the latter, he took the championship, the Cup and the Cup of the Scotland League.
Rio Ferdinand Disqualification term: 8 months
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine Probably one of the most amazing stories. At the end of 2003, after the morning training, four Manchester United football players were selected for doping test. Ryan Giggz, Niki Butt, John O’shi appeared on the procedure, but Rio Ferdinand just forgot about her and went home. The Central Beck still took the test in two days, but it was too late, because he had to do it in 36 hours. The English Football Association suspected Ferdinand of drugs, but no unacceptable substances in the body of the football player were found. The meeting was held in early January 2004. Rio was removed for 8 months and forced to pay £ 50,000.
To the ban on the main defender of the MJ was the leader of the Premier League, and completed the season 3. Ferdinand was unable to challenge the decision and missed Euro-2004. Further, Rio was an integral part of the “Red Devils”, winning 5 times the APL and the Champions League in 2008.
Ivan Touni Disqualification term: 8 months
From February 2017 to January 2021, the player committed 262 violations of the law. The attacker has been betting for almost 5 years, including the Brentford games, which he defended. Touni, like Ferdinand, paid a fine of 50,000 pounds and missed 8 months, after which he returned to the field and even went to EURO-2024.
Mark Bosnich Disqualification term: 9 months
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine The Australian goalkeeper has repeatedly hit the mess. The largest of them is the removal of football for cocaine in 2002. Bosnich argued that the substance was poured into a glass in one of the bars of London, but it did not save. Chelsea immediately terminated an agreement with a goalkeeper, which was later noticed in fights at least three times. One time even for your own wedding. After the disqualification, Mark restored his career at home, but finally completed it a year later.
Eric Canton Disqualification term: 9 months
How not to mention the French stars, which in 1995 first hit the leg of the defender “Crystal Peles”, and after the red card flew in his feet into the chest of the fan “Eagles”! Manchester United striker did not admit guilt and refused to apologize. Eric was even threatened with a 2-week imprisonment, which was eventually replaced by 120 hours of community service. The next season, the forward returned to the field and helped Mu win the championship, and then protect the title. Next was the completion of careers, coaching and immersion in the movie world.
Sandro Tonali Disqualification term: 10 months
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine The Italian, like Ivan Touni, violated the ban on gambling. The midfielder was betting on Milan, for which he spoke. The whole truth was on the surface after the transfer to Newcastle, so the havbek missed most of the season-2023/24 season and did not go to the EURO-2024. Tonali is currently a key player in Forty, with whom he recently won the first trophy of the club in 70 years.
Fred Disqualification term: 12 months
In the summer of 2015, the midfielder passed a positive doping test during a performance for Brazil’s national team at the Americas. Both samples confirmed the presence of a prohibited hydrochlorothiazide player in the blood. Initially, the midfielder came under sanctions only from Conmeball and could play Shakhtar, but later got the ban from FIFA. All disqualification was finally floated in 2017. Fred then concluded a new 5-year agreement with the Donetsk club, and a year later went to Manchester United, with which he won only the League Cup. Since 2023, the Brazilian has protected the colors of “Fenerbahche”.
Abel Shavier Disqualification term: 12 months
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Abel Shavier (left) The Portuguese with extravagant hairstyles in November 2005 was found guilty of the use of anabolic steroid of methandrostenostenolone (also known as Dianabol) and removed from professional football for 18 months. The defender said the substance came from the antivirus drug he ordered from the United States, but it did not help. However, in June 2006, Abel still achieved a reduction in the bath to 12 months. Abel further played for Middlesbro and Los Angeles Glexi.
Andre Onan Disqualification term: 12 months
In February 2021 he was disqualified for 12 months. Furosemide was discovered in the goalkeeper doping. The official statement of Ajax stated that the drug got into the body of the football player by accident: he mistakenly took the medication of his wife. In June, according to the decision of the sports arbitration court, the disqualification period was reduced to 9 months. After the Netherlands, the Cameroon moved to Inter and later to Manchester United. In both cases, he won national cups.
Edgar Davids Disqualification term: 12 months
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine In 2001, the Dutch Pitbul reached the year of dismissal from football for the use of Norandrosterone and Noretiolanolone. The midfielder claimed that he had never had any doping contact. After returning, Davids took two more Skudetto with Juventus, the Italy Cup with Inter, the Bronze Awards of the Euro-2004, played for Barcelona, Tottenham, again for Ajax and even for Cristal Peles. Since 2011 he has been in charge of coaching.
Rene Igita Disqualification Terms: 6 and 7 months
The goalkeeper, known for reflecting the ball with the “scorpion”, made friends with Pablo Escobar. In 1993, he made a mediator between Escobar and another dealer Carlos Molina. Renee provided a ransom that made the daughter of the latter be able to go. Molina thanked Igity with a sum of $ 64,000. It seems that the goalkeeper spent 7 months in prison, missing the World Cup-1994. In prison, Igita declared a hunger strike against unlawful, in his opinion, imprisonment, and later confessed that he did not know that he was committing a crime. As a result, the Colombian never made any accusations and released.
In 2004, the football player found cocaine through which he received a 6-month ban on any football activity. Renee played football until 2009, after that he worked as a goalkeeper trainer in the Spanish Validolid and Saudi “Al-Nasri”.
Adrian Mut Disqualification Terms: 7 and 9 months
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine The Romanian forward got into Doping Scands twice. In 2004, the attacker discovered cocaine and They were removed for 7 months. At the same time, FIFA obliged the player to pay Chelsea 17.2 million euros for early termination of the agreement. In 2010, the mut was already removed from the Fiorentina from football for 9 months. This time in the body of the football player found Sibutramine. Two disqualifications put a cross at Adrian’s top career, because he played in Czesen and Ayachcho.
By the way, it was recently that the Muto was supported by the wise.
Joey Barton Disqualification term: 18 months
Sometimes it seems that some players are synonymous with the word “disqualification”. 78 yellow cards, 6 red, fights with fans and wife, six months in prison for clarifying relationships with a teenager with the use of physical strength. However, the football player spent only 74 days in prison. Although Barton missed a year and a half because of his fighting qualities. From March 26, 2006 to May 13, 2016, Joey made 1260 ponds on various aspects of football matches.
In 2015 at the age of 32, the midfielder returned to football, managed to help Bernley win the championship and return to the APL. Next was a short period in Rangers, a return to Bernley and the beginning of a coaching career.
Samir Nasri Disqualification term: 18 months
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine In July 2017, UEFA removed the Frenchman from football for 6 months for illegal blood transfusions in December 2016. On August 1, 2018, the disqualification of Nasri was increased by an additional 12 months after the UEFA Inspector’s appeal in ethics and discipline. At the end of the ban, the midfielder played for West Hem and Anderlecht, where he spent only 12 matches in total.
Paul Pogba Disqualification term: 18 months
In 2023, Doping Test Havbek gave a positive result on testosterone. Subsequently, the sample B was opened, which gave the same result. In February last year, the Pogba was removed from sports for 4 years, but in October the commission of the sports arbitration court (CAS) partly satisfied the appeal of the football player, reducing the period to 18 months and canceling a fine. As the disqualification period was deducted from September 11, 2023, the field may return to the field. Currently, 2018 World Champion is a free agent.
Diego Maradona Disqualification Terms: twice for 15 months
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Both times the Latin American did not admit guilt. In 1991, according to Maradona, the analyzes were forged through the intervention of the President of the Italian Football Federation Antonio Matarrese, which thus revealed the defeat of Italy from Argentina at the 1990. Diego argued that although he took drugs, he always conducted doping tests from the medication taken. A month after the incident in Buenos Aires, Maradona, along with his two friends, was arrested for drug storage. The company found 36 g of cocaine.
On the 19994, Diego assured that on the eve of playing with Australia, the players of the national team were given a special coffee containing doping, after which they “ran much more”. And all this was at the behest of the President of the Association of Football Argentina Hulio Grondon. According to Maradona, it was Grondon who made no doping test at the end of the meeting, but after confrontation with Nigeria Hulio could not do anything.
Don Diego returned to football even after the second disqualification and at the age of 36 he played a little more than the Huniors. Later, there were 25 years of coaching in Argentina, the UAE and Mexico. On November 25, 2020, Maradona’s heart stopped.
Alexander Rybka Disqualification term: 2 years
Two years later, the fish restored his career in Dynamo, with which he became the champion of Ukraine twice. Next were the voyages to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Latvia and the return to his homeland, where the goalkeeper played for Metalist and Lviv. From 2023 he has protected Obolon colors.
Juanito Disqualification Terms: 2 and 5 years
The best Spanish player of the 1976/77 season, participant in the World Cups-1978 and 1982, 5-time Spanish Champion, 2-time UEFA Cup winner, has almost 300 matches for Real (Madrid). However, Juan Gomez Gonzalez was not sugar. The midfielder appealed to the referees, and in 1978 he received a 2-year-old ban on a few shocks of the German referee Adolf Prokop. However, these were flowers. The berries happened in 1987, when Juanito came on the thorns of Mattheus Lothar. As a result, 5 years of Banu and a farewell fine from Real Madrid for 5000 Peset.
However, the disqualification then spread only to UEFA auspices, so in both cases, Juanito continued to play in internal competitions. After Madrid, the player moved to Malaga, and completed the speeches in the amateur deportivo Los Boliches. In 1992, at the age of 37, Juanito died in a car crash.
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Enoch West Disqualification term: 30 years
The former striker Nottingham Forest and Manchester United was entangled in the bookmaker scandal in 1915. The involvement persons were faced with life -long disqualification, but there was an unusual condition to lift the ban on playing. Players could cancel the disqualification period if they enroll in the ranks of the Britain’s Armed Forces in the First World War. The West went through the war and returned alive, but he was informed that his lifelong ban was canceled, but replaced by a 30-year-old. At 59, Enoch, of course, did not return to the field.
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