Peru Captain Paolo Guerrero
Peru Captain Paolo Guerrero has been suspended from this summer’s World Cup because of a positive doping test.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency to extend Guerrero’s sixmonth FIFA ban, which expired this month.
CAS says Guerrero will be banned for 14 months which lasts until January. The 34-year-old was set to captain Peru at its first World Cup appearance since 1982.
Guerrero tested positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, at a World Cup qualifying game against Argentina in October.
His lawyers argued the stimulant had not been performance enhancing, and was accidentally consumed in contaminated tea.
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