Ten other stars allowed for testing positive and you didn’t remember

Colo Toure

Ivory Coast

Yaya Touré’s older brother has been banned from playing football for six months after testing positive for an unspecified substance. He used the excuse that he was taking diet pills and that might be the reason.

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Edgar Davids

Holland

There are few defensive midfielders like Edgar Davids, but he also has a dark past. The Dutchman tested positive for Nandrolone in 2001 and was sidelined for four months.

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Jaap Stam

Holland

Dutchman Jaap Stam was sidelined for the exact same substance, Nandrolone, for a total of four months.

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Pep Guardiola

Spain

To add to the positive results for Nandrolone, Pep Guardiola was also one of those who received a four-month ban when he played for Brescia, which caused him to miss the World Cup in Korea and Japan. However, in 2007 he was acquitted.

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Romario

Brazil

Romário, one of the best players to wear a Brazil shirt, turned positive with little left in his career. It was in 2007 when he tested positive for Finasteride, a substance residing in an anti-alopecia pill he had been taking for 13 years. He disappeared for 4 months.

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Samir Nasri

France

Samir Nasri received one of the cruelest punishments known. The Frenchman was out of the soccer field for 18 months after, as a Sevilla soccer player, he tested positive after undergoing intravenous vitamin treatment in the United States, something the World Anti-Doping Agency Code does not allow.

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Adrian Mutu

Romania

Adrian Mutu’s case is one of the most famous. The forward, during his time at Chelsea, tested positive for cocaine and received a 7-month ban. It was not enough for him. Years later, in 2010, he repeated the positive test at Fiorentina, with a penalty of another 6 months.

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Rio Ferdinand

England

Although this is not a confirmed positive, something is missing. Rio Ferdinand was banned for 8 months after refusing to take a random test in September 2003, causing him to miss the World Cup in Portugal.

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Diego Maradona

Argentina

There has never been a case in history as high profile as that of Diego Armando Maradona. Also known for his football as well as his scandals. He was twice sentenced to 15 months without football after testing positive for cocaine, the second at the 1994 World Cup.

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Frank de Boer

Holland

Like other Dutch compatriots, Frank de Boer tested positive for Nandrolone when he was a Barça player in 2001. He was initially banned for a year, but UEFA overturned this and he served two months.