In the sporting world, doping refers to any attempt by a player, or at the instigation of another person such as manager, coach, trainer, doctor, physiotherapist or masseur, to enhance mental and physical performance unphysiologically or to treat ailment or injury when it is not medically justified. This includes using (taking or injecting) administering or prescribing prohibited substances prior to or during competition. It also applies to out-of-competition testing for anabolic steroid and peptide hormones as well as substances producing similar effects.
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Other prohibited methods are blood doping, manipulation of collected samples are likewise classified as doping. Drug testing was first introduced at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico city following the amphetamine and nicotinyl tartrate-related deaths of a number of cyclists at the 1960 summer Olympic Games in Rome and during the 1987 Tour de France. The World football governing body, FIFA, introduced doping control two years after it was introduced at the Olympics to ensure that results of national and international matches were a fair reflection of the ability of those taking part.
Professional footballers are thus, required to take semi-regular ‘random’ drugs tests, particularly at a high level, with some international players being tested almost weekly. Failure in one of these tests or a refusal to take the test can see a hefty ban from the game and often a sacking by one’s employers. But in spite of the doping control mechanism adopted by sports bodies, sportsmen and women have continued to take performance enhancing drugs both during and after competitions.
Here are the top 10 world class footballers who have been caught doing drugs. This list will include both the failure for tests of recreational drugs and performance enhancing drugs.
10. Jake Livermore
The former Hull City midfielder impressed in his debut season at the KC Stadium, on loan from Tottenham, but has failed to live up to his extortionate £8 million price tag.
And to compound his poor season, the 26-year-old failed a drugs test in May 2015 almost a year after his newborn son, Jake Junior died. The test revealed Livermore had taken cocaine but the Football Association decided not to ban him because of “the unique nature of circumstances” involved. Jake had said his positive test for cocaine came as a relief and was the “get out of jail free card” he needed to start to come to terms with the death of his son.
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