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NEW FIFA ANTI-DOPING BOOKLET FOCUSES ON EDUCATION
BuaNews - 09 June 2006
By Lavinia MAHLANGU
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New Fifa anti-doping booklet focuses on education
Ahead of the 2006 Football World Cup that starts in Germany today, the world football governing body has drawn attention to its educational efforts about the darker side of performance enhancing drugs.
Fifa said its anti-doping strategy was based on education and prevention, together with regular doping tests in and out of competition.
Its medical department would be driving this point home at the at world cup with a new booklet called “Fight against Doping in Football”, which is aimed at players, coaches, officials, managers and the media.
South Africa’s own preparations for the 2010 World Cup are well underway with the building of stadia and the planned Gautrain in the pipeline.
The country’s Local Organising Committee is to visit Germany during the (2006) tournament and is expected to learn much from their efforts and the challenges they face.
Fifa said with approximately 20 000 doping tests conducted annually, no other sport was as active in the area of anti-doping as football.
The body said its statistics showed that only 0.4 percent of the estimated 20 000 doping tests were positive and in most cases, any positive tests were for recreational drugs such as marijuana (dagga) and cocaine, as just 0.07 percent are for performance-enhancing anabolic steroids.
“This extremely low incidence backs up our strategy, as education and explanation is just as important as imposing sanctions,” said Dr Michel D’Hooghe, the chairperson of the FIFA Sports Medical Committee.
The booklet, Fifa said, gave a comprehensive overview of doping-related matters which included the history, background and practicalities of its strategy in the fight against doping in football.
Fifa said the booklet contained separate sections on the most common substances which were listed according to the frequency in which substances are detected in footballers. Marijuana was first in the booklet, the governing body said.
Other substances such as erythropoietin, growth hormone and blood doping were also covered in detail.
“We have never detected erythropoietin or blood doping in football, for example, but as both substances are always cropping up in the media, we decided that it was important that we describe their effects and dangers,” said Chief Medical Officer Jiri Dvorak, who is also the chairman of the Fifa Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC).
Injured or ill footballers sometimes required treatment with medication that is on the list of prohibited substances, and in such cases, a request for a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) can be submitted, said Fifa.
Fifa and its member associations granted such requests most often for asthma treatment with beta-2-agonists and corticosteroids for acute conditions.
As a result, the effects and side-effects of these groups of medications were also described in separate sections.
Clarification of positive test results and decisions regarding sanctions were to protect honest players, but also to punish doping offences consistently, the governing body said.
F-MARC was also publishing a comprehensive report on doping in football in the highly-respected British Journal of Sports Medicine, which is aimed at medical experts and team and sports doctors in particular.
This journal will also be part of the teaching material in the FIFA FUTURO III educational programme for more than 3 000 doctors worldwide.
BuaNews
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