Carvalho admits to injections of anabolic steroids at Russian club
Former Brazil international midfielder Daniel Carvalho has admitted that he received regular injections of anabolic steroids while being a part of Russian club CSKA Moscow.
Carvalho said he was given the drugs because CSKA’s medical staff considered him “weak”.
From Itv.com:
“In Russian football there isn’t any [anti-]doping,” he said. “There were needles put into my vein, and on the sixth or seventh injection I stopped taking them because I discovered that it was going straight into my heart.
“I told them I didn’t want to take it any more.”
The 28-year-old Brazilian, who was Man of the Match in CSKA’s UEFA Cup Final win over Sporting Lisbon in 2005, was initially a hit in Russia, and was capped three times by Brazil in 2006.
But a decline in his performances, amid questions over his physical fitness, have provoked criticism – and Carvalho now blames the doping regime he alleges he was subject to in Moscow.
“I left Brazil thin, very thin,” Carvalho said. “Then I went to Russia for six years, and they gave me steroid injections, and after six months I’d put on eight kilos.”
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