9 biggest footballers who failed drug tests: Pogba, Maradona, Onana…
Being an elite sport, football has a rigorous drug testing policy to ensure no team or player gains an unfair advantage by using performance enhancers. It means players have to be extremely careful when fuelling their bodies and taking medicine. Injuries, illness, it all adds up over the course of a worryingly expanding football season, meaning footballers must take tremendous care in looking after themselves. That means being wary of avoiding a lengthy list of banned substances. But by accident or intentionally, plenty of top players have been caught breaking the rules when it comes to drugs and had to face up to the punishment as a result. Here are eight of the biggest names to have failed a drug test. Disclaimer – Rio Ferdinand doesn't feature in the list. The English defender served an eight-month ban in 2003, missing the 2003-04 season, Euro 2004 and the beginning of the 2004-5 campaign with Manchester United, for missing a drug test. He later took the test and passed, but a...