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UEFA introduces anti-doping programme
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-17 10:20 UEFA will enforce a new
anti-doping programme at all levels in and out of competition, a meeting of the
European soccer body's executive committee decided on Thursday.
"We decided to start an anti-doping programme and this means that we
will increase the quantity and frequency of doping tests in competitions and
also outside competitions," UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson said.
Olsson told reporters at the end of the two-day meeting that tests will
be taken in women's and youth soccer as well, in line with world body FIFA and
the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) regulations.
He said from the beginning of next year UEFA would establish a separate
unit within the body responsible for testing.
The meeting also dealt with several matters concerning the Euro 2008
finals being jointly organised by Switzerland and Austria and in particular the
failure by the city of Zurich to obtain permission to rebuild the Hardturm
stadium.
"The Executive Committee decided to set a deadline for the Swiss
authorities to come up with concrete proposals with how these matters will be
solved by the end of this year," Olssen said.
UEFA also expressed concern over the quality of refereeing, especially
during the Olympic soccer tournament at last month's Athens Games, and
considered steps to improve it.
"All associations in Europe are prepared to invite or take care of
referees nominated by the other confederations, for example, to let them referee
in Europe and give them an opportunity of getting more experience," Olssen said.
In a show of sympathy for the families of the victims of the Beslan
hostage siege earlier this month in Russia in which more than 360
people, half of them children, were killed, UEFA will donate two mini-pitches to
the school in North Ossetia.
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