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​FIFA will test all World Cup players for drugs

Published: 18 Feb 2014 - 12:24 am | Last Updated: 28 Jan 2022 - 05:09 pm

Zurich: World football governing body FIFA will test all players for drugs before the World Cup, its chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak has said. 
All 32 teams qualified for Brazil 2014 are instructed to send in their schedules from March 1 to give FIFA the opportunity to test players for doping in the lead-up to the World Cup in Brazil.
Dvorak said explained players and teams will not know when the drug testers will arrive, but promised no-one will be missed before Brazil plays Croatia in the first match of the tournament.
Dvorak said: “We can come anytime, anywhere, if we decide to.” QNA