World football’s tainted governing body, FIFA, must institute radical changes to help avoid future scandals, according to an eminent anti-corruption expert.

FIFA has been mired in corruption allegations surrounding the appointment of World Cup host countries and Joseph “Sepp” Blatter’s fourth presidential term election.

From Swissinfo.ch:

Many of the corruption allegations concern the distribution of Fifa money to the 208 national football associations that make up its membership base.

 “The members are the owners and supervisors of Fifa and at the same time they are the beneficiaries,” Pieth told swissinfo.ch. “Since there is so much money going out to the members, there is a risk that some of this money will directly benefit individuals who are taking decisions.”

 One way to reduce the risk of such corruption would be to appoint external directors – perhaps from the business community – from outside the organisation to cast an independent eye over decisions and to “break up this insiders’ club”.

 Another way of combatting the actions of dishonest individuals would be to make Fifa’s ethics committee more independent and allow it to weed out unsavoury characters from positions of influence.

Mark Pieth, an experienced Swiss anti-corruption expert and recently appointed chairman,  released his initial findings that uncovered a series of weaknesses in the way FIFA is governed that leave the organization open to corruption.

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Lionel Messi and Neymar will participate to try a biological passport in soccer in a new anti-doping program.

All players set to be involved in the seven-team Club World Cup next month will be providing samples beforehand to help laboratories prepare their individual steroid profiles, FIFA said.

From Ibnlive.in.com:

Players then selected for anti-doping controls in the December 8-18 tournament in Japan will have their results measured against out-of-competition tests taken up to one month earlier.

“(FIFA) recently reviewed the current drug-testing procedures within football and come up with a new approach,” the governing body said in a statement. “The main, new aim will be to capture players’ individual steroid profile.”

FIFA announced the pilot project during the draw in Nagoya, Japan, that featured the six continental champions and the host nation’s league winners.

“Every club will be required to provide FIFA with accurate details of their team activities (matches, training schedule etc.) during the period from November 14 to December 8,” FIFA said.

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Matildas’ hopes of a London Olympic reprieve have been dashed after Australia’s calls to have North Korea banned from the tournament over a doping row fell on deaf ears.

The women soccer team of Australia narrowly missed a 2012 Olympic berth after finishing third at the Asian qualifying tournament in September behind Japan and North Korea.

From Abc.net.au:

But Matildas players and Olympic and football officials were not happy that North Korea was allowed to qualify after it was banned by FIFA from competing in the 2015 Women’s World Cup following a doping scandal at the 2011 World Cup in Germany in June-July.

Five players tested positive to steroids and received bans of up to 18 months, while the team’s doctor was banned for six years.

Football Federation Australia and the Australian Olympic Committee last month wrote to FIFA, the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Authority, claiming North Korea should also be banned from the Olympics, paving the way for the Matildas to take their place.

“WADA has carefully considered the award relating to all the sanctions handed out by FIFA to the North Korea women’s team,” a WADA statement said.

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A serious threat to world sport was posed after an astonishing 109 footballers taking part in this summer’s Under-17 World Cup tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid clenbuterol after eating contaminated meat.

No action against any of the affected players was taken by FIFA and the WADA because of the “compelling evidence” that tainted meat was to blame but this seems like a bias as 22 year-old British sprint hurdler Callum Priestley, who is serving a two-year ban after testing positive for clenbuterol while on an official UK Athletics training camp in South Africa in 2010 was accused for failing to prove his innocence.

From Blogs.telegraph.co.uk:

His claims that he had eaten contaminated meat at the UK Athletics hotel, and that he was even treated for food poisoning at the time of his drug test, failed to carry any weight with his disciplinary panel and his punishment was confirmed.

Although his ban expires in February, Priestley, once considered one of Britain’s brightest young track prospects, is so disillusioned by his experience that he has now quit the sport.

Michele Verokken, the former head of anti-doping in Britain, is convinced he was innocent though whether he was really telling the truth we will never be known for sure because once the meat was consumed, the evidence vanished.

It would be better if countries where there is a proven problem need more than a WADA health warning and barred from hosting any major international sporting events until they can correct things at their end.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has accepted that five footballers from Mexico who failed doping tests this year had ingested contaminated meat and should not be punished.

WADA recently said it had dropped an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the Mexico Football Federation (FMF) decision not to sanction the players.

From Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

“WADA has received compelling evidence from a FIFA study at the under-17 World Cup in Mexico that indicates a serious health problem in Mexico with regards to meat contaminated with clenbuterol,” the anti-doping organisation said in a statement.

“This is a public health issue that is now being addressed urgently by the Mexican government.

“The government of Mexico, which has legislation forbidding the use of steroids with livestock, accepts it has an issue with contaminated meat and is actively looking to resolve the problem state by state,” added WADA.

“Already several arrests have been made pursuant to these laws and large amounts of clenbuterol seized. Investigations are to continue.

“WADA applauds FIFA for the further research it has initiated while WADA, the Mexican Football Federation and the Mexican government have agreed to assist with the study which will continue as a joint project.”

“FIFA would like to express its satisfaction with the decision taken by WADA,” said soccer’s ruling body.

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FIFA and a number of well-respected laboratories, like the Le Laboratoire suisse d’analyse du dopage (LAD), have recently reviewed the present drug-testing procedures within football and have come up with a new approach.

The primary aim of this approach would be to capture individual steroid profiles of players.

From Fifa.com:

As a result of this pilot study, amendments have been made to the out-of-competition doping control procedure. All teams participating in the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2011 are now included in the FIFA pre-competition testing pool (PCTP) in accordance with appendix D, art. 1 par. 2c) of the FIFA Anti-Doping Regulations, and every club will be required to provide FIFA with accurate details of their team activities (matches, training schedule, etc) during the period from 14 November to 8 December 2011.

FIFA will test all of the players from all clubs in order to be able to compare those steroid profiles with the samples that will be taken at the FIFA Club World Cup 2011.

The main steroids constituting the individual steroid profile are Testosterone, Epitestosterone (E), Androsterone, Etiocholanolone, 5a-androstane-3a,17b-diol, and 5b-androstane-3a,17b-diol.

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FIFA has recently revealed that a majority of the players tested at the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico had traces of clenbuterol in their bodies because they ate contaminated meat.

FIFA medical officer Jiri Dvorak termed the results as “highly surprising” but insisted that teenage footballers were not cheating.

From News.smh.com.au:

“It is not a problem of doping, but a problem of public health,” Dvorak told reporters, adding that none of the players was harmed or put in any danger.

FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency declined to prosecute any cases because the weight of evidence pointed to contamination.

Mexican authorities have acknowledged the country has issues with feeding banned steroids to livestock.

“Since day one we knew the players were innocent and we are happy with this result,” Justino Compean, the Mexican Football Federation president.

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According to FIFA, more than 100 players at the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico tested positive for stimulants due to contaminated meat.

Samples provided by players from 19 of the 24 squads at the tournament – that ended in July – tested positive for banned substance clenbuterol, as per Jiri Dvorak, chief medical officer for world football’s governing body.

From Soccerway.com:

After four players at the youth competition tested positive, FIFA opted to analyse all 208 urine samples collected, with the steroid found to be present in more than half of them.

Suspicions were aroused by the fact five players from Mexico’s senior squad for the CONCACAF Gold Cup had previously tested positive for the same substance in May.

The players were later deemed to have unwittingly ingested the drug through tainted food consumed on a training camp in Mexico.

“FIFA was very alarmed and it was highly surprising to see something like this – I had not seen anything like it in my 20 years in this post,” Dvorak said.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recently revealed that 109 of 208 soccer players tested positive for clenbuterol during the Under-17 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico in July.

Clenbuterol is still used illegally by some Mexican farmers to bulk up cattle and is a banned substance that can cause an increase in aerobic capacity.

From Guadalajarareporter.com:

FIFA medical officer Jiri Dvorak called the results “highly surprising” but insisted that the teenage soccer players were not cheating. “It is not a problem of doping, but a problem of public health,” he told reporters, adding that none of the players were harmed or put in any danger.

Players from 19 of the 24 participating countries tested positive, at a shockingly high rate of 52.4 percent. FIFA and the WADA have declined to prosecute any cases because the weight of evidence points strongly to contamination.

Mexico’s winning team all tested clean, having switched to a fish and vegetables diet before the competition. This precaution was taken after five members of Mexico’s senior squad were suspended for testing positive for clenbuterol ahead of the Gold Cup in June.

WADA issued a statement last week urging all athletes in Mexico to “exercise extreme caution with regards to what they eat and where they eat.”

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One bite of bad beef may mean a positive drug test for a Canadian athlete competing at the Pan American Games.

The Canadian team has been given strict orders not to stray outside the athletes’ village to eat, in a country plagued by positive doping tests blamed on the presence of the steroid clenbuterol in beef.

From Theglobeandmail.com:

If there were bad-beef concerns before at the Games, they were cranked up several notches when FIFA revealed this week that a whopping 109 players — more than half — at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Mexico this past summer tested positive for the anabolic steroid.

Pan Am Games officials have guaranteed that the meat in the village is safe, said Dr. Andrew Marshall, the Canadian team’s chief medical officer.

“And we’ve told the athletes, if they choose to eat outside the village, stick to a high quality restaurant. But we still can’t guarantee the sources of the meat … You and I could be having a hamburger, for example, and mine might be negative and your’s might be positive.”

“We were warned before we even got here, and then again when we arrived, before we ate anything,” said field hockey captain Ken Pereira. “The mission staff assured us that all the food in the village is fine, so we’re staying in the village to eat.”

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