MALIAN footballers Mohamed Camara and Sekou Koita were suspended by Europe’s football governing body, UEFA, after the two returned positive doping tests, their club Red Bull Salzburg announced.
“Mohamed Camara and Sekou Koita are to be suspended for three months. This suspension is effective immediately and covers all club and international football activities,” the Austrian club said in a statement on its website.
“Today’s decision was based on a doping investigation conducted by UEFA on positive results the two players were informed about in the middle of December,” it added.
According to the statement, the players were away on international duty for Mali when they took medicine from a doctor to deal with altitude sickness in the Namibian capital Windhoek. The medicine contained a substance which is in a list of banned substances.
The doctor responsible for administering the medicine was subsequently suspended by Mali’s football federation.
With that in mind, UEFA ruled
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