Feels like the club must have been expecting it a while, considering he went from starting 5/7 and looking one of our best players, to occasional came off the bench. As he's only on loan, do we just send him back?
I may be wrong, but I thought he came forward and admitted that he'd recently taken some medication for something else, which a side-effect of covering the doping test. I presume that they've looked into it to se if it was likely "convenient"
He said he's been given Salbutamol the asthma drug after having an allergic reaction to seafood didn't he? I don't think taking a banned substance by accident is sufficient defence to avoid a ban but it can be a mitigating factor in the length (I think).
Ye but you still get found guilty as the test is positive Same with onana at ajax He willl prob get 9 or 10 months instead if a few years with mitigation
Onana took his wife’s medication and it was deemed accidental and he was still banned for nine months.
Ate some dodgy shrimps (allegedly), was throwing up, then took pill then went to hospital for an injection. If the story is true, presumably there are hospital records which might help? It's a bit more than taking eg a cold cure that you didn't realise was banned, which is the usual story.
I think me and Howden said a few weeks ago it almost seems like we’re not playing him much because the club is anticipating the worst.
And, further, it was a specific allegy. If that can be proved, surely an appeal has a reasonable chance of success? His mother, María Preciado, revealed on Mundo Deportivo radio that the footballer went to eat ceviche with his brother, which apparently contained shrimp juice, a food to which he is allergic. Zambrano felt sick and called his girlfriend , who recommended that he buy a pill at the pharmacy, which made him sick and he had to immediately go to a health center, since the player could not breathe. "I told him to call the doctor at Liga de Quito; and there they told him that the pill was bad , but he had already taken it. Then the team doctor injected him and he got a little better," said his mother.
Why are they being circumspect about the length of ban? Surely a ruling body don't impose a ban without saying how long for, so why are the club not disclosing it?
Ok, and doesn't the drug mask the results of the doping test, rather than give a false-positive? So the assumption is that he did this deliberately so as not to fail an upcoming test, and therefore is suspicious?
Well there you go. I'm not an expert on South American football, but all the Latin American sports websites have nothing more other than the original alleged circumstances. If it's true he couldn't breathe because of an allergic reaction, that's a very different kettle of fish to the usual stories.
How does that make sense though? Logically what is the link? "He might be unavailable soon therefore we'll hurt ourselves by treating him as unavailable now, but not all the time, he can come off the bench just not start." That would be a pretty wild process. Surely it's much more likely that Walter just prefers Simons. Let's face it, Zambrano never really had the spot nailed down for any length of time.
I’m sorry but ceviche is famously a dish of raw seafood. You would never order it if you knew you had a serious seafood allergy.
Maybe Walter didn’t want to use Zambrano a lot if the club said he may be banned soon as it would be better to give as much game time to Simons or someone else in that position.
