LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — A Bulgarian soccer coach must serve a four-year ban for giving his players pills containing an anabolic steroid before matches in Cyprus.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it upheld appeals by FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency that Edward Eranosian’s suspension should be doubled after a Cypriot Football Association inquiry ordered a two-year sanction. Eranosian is banned until April 2013.
The court said the former Bulgaria international “organized the systematic distribution” of pills containing oxymesterone to APOP Kinyras players before matches.
CAS said players Carlos Marques and Lionel Medeiros should serve just one-year bans for failing doping tests because they identified Eranosian as the supplier.
