World anti-doping agency code update

The amendment corrects an injustice that has damaged the lives and livelihoods of a series of professional footballers who have been punished with bans for as long as four years under current anti-doping regulations.

Some of these footballers have endured lengthy and expensive legal battles in an unsuccessful effort to clear their names in cases which have been doomed from the start because of the rigid nature of the WADA Code over the last two decades.

FIFPRO will request that FIFA introduces the change to football regulations immediately.

Notably, FIFPRO campaigned over the case of Paolo Guerrero who would have missed the 2018 World Cup under unfair circumstances. Guerrero, Peru’s national team captain, tested positive for a substance that all parties agreed was not performance-enhancing.