Monza confirm Papu Gomez two-year ban over doping charges

Monza have issued a press launch, revealing the membership has obtained affirmation that Papu Gomez has been handed a two-year ban from the Spanish anti-doping fee over an incident that dates again to October 2022. 

Monza have confirmed that Gomez was discovered with traces of Terbutaline in his system, a drugs sometimes used to deal with shortness of breath brought on by bronchial asthma, bronchitis and emphysema. 

Terbutaline is included in part 3 of the FIGC’s checklist of prohibited substances for 2023-24. 

Monza write that the treatment was taken by Gomez in October 2022, when he was nonetheless contracted to Sevilla, in response to a bronchitis-related subject. 

Current stories from Relevo counsel that the substance had been taken previous to Argentina’s triumphant marketing campaign on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. 

Monza verify that they obtained a notification from FIFA by way of the FIGC relating to on Friday indicating the two-year sentence carried out by the Spanish anti-doping fee. 

The assertion does, nevertheless, counsel that the substance had been taken involuntarily. 

Gomez has made simply two appearances for Monza in Serie A since becoming a member of on a free switch in September. He had agreed a mutual termination of his contract with Sevilla, just below a 12 months earlier than his three-year deal was as a result of expire. 

Monza’s official assertion learn: “AC Monza pronounces that it has right now obtained a notification from FIFA, by way of the FIGC, of the primary sentence of the Spanish Anti-Doping Fee, issued in opposition to the footballer Alejandro Dario Gomez.

“The sentence offers for a two-year disqualification from sporting actions. The presence of Terbutaline was discovered within the footballer’s organic samples.

“It’s a drug taken to calm a bronchospasm subject, in October 2022, when the footballer was registered for Sevilla FC.

“Positivity is the results of an involuntary assumption.

“AC Monza reserves the precise to guage the following procedural steps.”