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Former Arsenal and Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri has been given a six-month doping ban by UEFA, European football’s governing body has confirmed.<\/p>\nFormer Arsenal and Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri has been given a six-month doping ban by UEFA, European football’s governing body has confirmed.<\/p>\n
The ban, which the player’s legal representative revealed to Press Association Sport on Sunday, follows an investigation into an intravenous hydration treatment the 30-year-old received while on holiday in Los Angeles in December 2016.<\/p>\n
Nasri, who has played 41 times for France and won the Premier League with City in 2012 and 2014, was given 500 millilitres of sterile water and micronutrients by a medical company called Drip Doctors.<\/p>\n
On loan from City to Spanish side Sevilla at the time, Nasri had reported feeling ill and vomiting before calling a doctor, his Maryland-based former girlfriend Dr Sarabjit Anand, who provided an initial diagnosis.<\/p>\n
He later posed for a photograph with Drip Doctors co-founder Jamila Sozahdah that was widely shared on social media and ultimately led to this ban.<\/p>\n
According to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s code, athletes can only receive infusions of 50 millilitres in a six-hour period.<\/p>\n
Sevilla applied for a retrospective therapeutic use exemption, a doctor’s note to cover the greater dosage, but it was refused by UEFA in February 2017 and that decision was upheld on appeal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.<\/p>\n
In a statement, UEFA said its control, ethics and disciplinary body had found the player guilty of “using a prohibited method in accordance with sub-section M2, par. 2 of the WADA prohibited list”.<\/p>\n
It added that the six-month ban was awarded on February 22 and is open to appeal.<\/p>\n
Nasri is currently without a club, having left Antalyaspor in January after just six months with the Turkish team.<\/p>\n