Dino Baggio, former Italian international, questions substances administered to footballers in years

In an interview with “La Gazzetta dello Sport”, the ex-milieu de field ensures that it evokes “supplements” and drugs, and not “doping substances”.

MO12345lemonde with AFP

Beaved by the death of former teammates, the former Italian international Dino Baggio estimated on Wednesday January 18 that he was “necessary to investigate” on the drug “substances” administered to footballers in the 1990s in Italy .

In an interview with The Gazzetta dello Sport , the former midfielder, ex-teammate of Gianluca Vialli and Sinisa Mihajlovic, recently disappeared, assures not to mention any practices doping, specifying remarks given the day before an Italian television, but the “supplements” and the drugs received during his career.

“Imagine that doctors could give us doping substances: we had controls every three or four days … No, simply, I would like to know on the part of the scientists if the supplements we take can, in the long term, Create problems in our body, “explains Dino Baggio, 51, who was a professional player between 1990 and 2005.

” I would like science to bring us answers “

“My reasoning is born from the pain that I feel for the disappearance of Vialli, which I have always considered a friend and who helped me, Mihajlovic and other boys who, like me, played In football in the 1990s (…). I think it is necessary to investigate the pharmacological substances taken at that time, “added the one who evolved with Gianluca Vialli at Juve and with Sinisa Mihajlovic at Lazio Rome. Gianluca Vialli died on January 6, 58 years old, following pancreatic cancer, and Sinisa Mihajlovic died on December 16, at 53, after having fought in recent years leukemia.

“I would like science to give us answers on the drugs that have been administered to recover from an injury or find energy,” said the ex-milieu of land having wore the jersey From Italy sixty times, which also expresses its concerns about the products used to maintain lawns.

/Media reports cited above.