The world champion player with the Argentine National Team came out to speak after several months away from the fields.
Since October of last year, the month in which the sad news of positive doping was announced, Alejandro “Papu” Gomez He couldn’t play again. On October 8 of last year, the Argentine player stepped on a soccer field for the last time in what was Monza’s 3-0 victory over Salernitana in Serie A. After that match, UEFA, the entity that regulates the football in europesuspended Papu for two years for consuming an illegal substance.
After the news, rumors quickly spread of the possible retirement of the 36-year-old Argentine player. However, in the last few hours Papu spoke with Diario AS and the former Arsenal of Sarandí, San Lorenzo, Catania, Atalanta, Seville He was seen wanting to do his thing again on the green grass.
Papu Gómez’s life after suspension for positive doping
“After the suspension I lead a quiet life and I’m enjoying other things that maybe I couldn’t before.” Papu Gómez began saying. Furthermore, the Argentine forward said that he is enjoying Bergamo, a city that he knows from his time at Atalanta and that is 40 kilometers from Monza, the city of his current club.
Then, Papu Gómez referred to the moment in his life that the sanction caught him: “It is clear that it is a hard moment, but it catches me at a more mature stage of my life. I’m 36 years old, I’m already more mature. It would have been harder if he caught me at another stage, when I was 20 or 25 years old. There are more important things and I can’t complain: I have health, friends, family”.
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Although his words seemed to refer to a possible retirement as he was enjoying family life, the world champion with Argentina was eager to step on the court again: “We continue appealing to the lawyers and trying to get the sentence reduced. The sanction was two years and we are seeing if something can be done to reduce it. “I live it patiently, waiting for positive news.”
Papu Gómez’s positive doping: what substance was found on him
During an anti-doping control carried out by UEFA in mid-November 2022, Gómez returned a positive result. This incident occurred while he was still part of Sevilla and just before the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. However, the news about his positive test was not made public until almost a year later, when he had already joined Monza. . In this new club, his participation was limited to just two games.
As a consequence of his infraction, the footballer received a sanction for “serious negligence” due to the consume of terbutalinea substance prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Source: Ambito
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