Hearing Thiago has failed a drugs test and won't be able to feature until after Xmas 2020. Injury and Covid a cover up.
Failed a drugs test AGAIN.
Good article this:
It is often said that taking performance enhancing drugs makes no sense for soccer players. Then why do so many do so? An internal list from the World Anti-Doping Agency reveals the substances players have been caught using. And shows that football officials seek to play down the issue.
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How often have we heard people make the asinine claim that doping in soccer wouldn't help? Legendary German player Franz Beckenbauer has said as much, as have myriad lesser football luminaries such as Guido Buchwald, Theo Zwanziger, Ewald Lienen, Robin Dutt and current Liverpool manager
Jürgen Klopp.
French national team player Mamadou Sakho, who played his club football for
FC Liverpool at the time, was discovered to have been using higenamine, a substance which increases the heart rate.
NADA investigators seek to test football players as often as possible, even away from the stadium or practice facility. In fall 2014, for example, inspectors wanted to visit
Thiago Alcantara for an unannounced doping test. The Spaniard from FC Bayern was injured at the time and the club told NADA that he was in a clinic in Barcelona. When the investigators showed up, however, Alcantara wasn't there and the NADA agents left empty-handed.