FIFA Wrings Hands Over African Muti

Muti or traditional African medicine.

FIFA wants the World Anti-Doping Agency to analyse plants used in traditional African medicine because of their performance-enhancing qualities.

Speaking after the recently held FIFA conference at Sun City involving coaches and medical officers from almost all of the 32 teams playing in the World Cup, FIFA medical committee chairman Michel D’Hooghe said he wants WADA to act before the World Cup kicks off on 11 June.

Apparently, some plants – often found in tropical countries like Ghana and Congo – are completely undetectable under current dope-testing protocols, but can nonetheless produce steroid-like by-products that will obviously boost performance.

And local players have been burying their muti plants under the goalposts?! Eat it, guys! You’re supposed to eat it! No wonder those West African players are so fris!

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