Fifa Plans Biological Profiling For World Cup
FIFA has announced plans to introduce biological profiling of players during the 2013 Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in an effort to improve its anti-doping regulations.
The governing body revealed that all players would be tested, using their blood and urine to build an individual biological profile of each player. FIFA has already tested the scheme, with pilot project trialled in 2011 at the Club World Cup.
FIFA also announced that it would be working in partnership with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to create a hormonal profiling project.
Dr Michel D’Hooghe, chairman of FIFA’s medical committee, said: ‘In 2014, the year of the FIFA World Cup, we will be spending US$2.5 million in the fight against doping. FIFA was the first international organisation for team sport to start with longitudinal profiles.’
‘We have been testing this at the FIFA Club World Cup in 2011 and 2012, we will continue at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 with blood testing unannounced at training camps and games. And it’s our commitment to have all players participating at the 2014 FIFA World Cup having biological profiles.’
WADA president John Fahey commented on the FIFA’s plans: ‘There is always more which can be done in the fight against doping, but we know FIFA has always been serious in this domain. We think the leagues can complement what FIFA is already doing, but we came here to thank FIFA for its collaboration.’
