FOR SURE!!!!
FOR SURE!!!!
PEDs may or may not be prevalent, but diving sure is. So much of what players do seems predicated on the fact that there's only one referee, who will miss certain things and might be tricked into awarding a foul or yellow card where none was warranted.
Delusional for sure.
Why is soccer assumed to be clean? I'm sure some endurance enhancing drugs would be pretty beneficial.
Riiiiight. Keep telling yourself that, maybe it'll come true.
Nope, we still have curling!!!
Are you kidding? You are very naive if you truly think that.
When I was doing research on doping practices over twenty years ago, I talked to a South American soccer player who said that blood-doping had become pretty common in soccer. I don't know why soccer would be a clean sport, although the advantages of standard doping practices would obviously not be as great in a sport where there is a big emphasis on ball-handling. But twenty years ago, baseball seemed like an unlikely sport for widespread steroid abuse (although amphetamine abuse was, and still is, rampant).
Steroids will help ANY athlete.
Alan
Soccer was never clean
ONLY US BRAZILIANS ARE CLEAN!! WE ARE NATURAL!! BORN TO PLAY SOCCER!!!
ronaldinho gaucho wrote:
ONLY US BRAZILIANS ARE CLEAN!! WE ARE NATURAL!! BORN TO PLAY SOCCER!!!
Let me remind you of the result of the 2006 Football World Cup.
Italy beat France in the final and Germany beat Portugal in the third place play-off.
Brazil? - nowhere!
You are naive
Here is a good part of the answer:
http://www.usantidoping.org/what/stats/history.aspx
In 2007 the US Anti-Doping Agency tested 3,037 athletes. 608 were in T&F. Only 76 were tested in soccer.
Also one's professional income is likely going to have a much greater boost taking PEDs in T&F than taking PEDs in Soccer. Soccer is more of a skill sport and less helped by taking PEDs. Endurance and strength sports are where athletes benefit most from PEDs.