What is the prohibited substance for which “Papu” Gómez tested positive for doping?

Terbutaline, according to the medical vademecum, is a drug with bronchodilator actions used in medicine for the short-term treatment of asthma and lung obstructions such as emphysema and chronic bronchitiswhich in its inhaled form has an immediate effect and its action can last up to 6 hours.

AC Monza is the first official source to break the news after the information previously reported in the media.

“AC Monza announces that it received today – October 20, 2023 – from FIFA, through the FIGC, notification of the first instance ruling of the Spanish Anti-Doping Commission, issued against the footballer Alejandro Darío Gómez. The ruling provides a disqualification from playing sports for two years. The presence of terbutaline was found in the footballer’s biological samples,” the institution reported.

“This is a drug that was taken to calm a bronchospasm crisis, in October 2022, when the footballer was registered with Sevilla FC. The positivity is the result of an involuntary assumption. AC Monza reserves the right to evaluate the next procedural steps”he detailed.

Due, “Papu” Gomez is exposed to the possibility of be excluded as world champion by FIFA although first we will have to observe his determination to appeal or not the sanction for positive doping.

However, in accordance with anti-doping regulations, the positive case does not affect the validity of the third star achieved by the Argentine team in Qatar for having provided a player with a positive analysis.

In its article 11, the code clarifies that “if more than two members of a team in a team sport are determined to have committed an anti-doping rule violation throughout the duration of the event, the entity responsible for said event will impose to the team the appropriate sanctions (such as loss of points, cancellation of the competition or other Sanctions), which will be added to other sanctions applicable individually to the offending athletes.