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"The chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee has provisionally suspended a Zimbabwean international footballer for an initial period of 30 days and opened disciplinary proceedings following an adverse analytical finding in relation to a doping control conducted after the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ qualifier between Zimbabwe and Egypt played in Harare, Zimbabwe on 9 June 2013."

"The world governing body of football, FIFA, has called for an overhaul in the approach to the fight against doping in sport."

"FIFA medical emergency expert Ephraim Kramer will facilitate a workshop of two days on Football Medical Emergency and Anti Doping set for the Zifa Village in Mt Hampden."

"The world governing body of football is creating blood and urine profiles of the world's top players with unannounced visits by an anti-doping team to clubs like Champions League winner Bayern Munich. This is done to ensure that the stars are under scrutiny ahead of next year's football World Cup."

"A Jamaican international footballer and a Jamaican team official have been provisionally suspended by the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for an initial period of 30 days."

"The local organizing committee of the 2014 FIFA World Cup has struck a deal with authorities in Switzerland for outsourcing part of the anti-doping program for the showpiece event."

"FIFA has lifted the suspension of a Bulgaria player within few hours after he tested positive for doping at a World Cup qualifying match."

"FIFA's chief medical officer has remarked that Brazil, the host of the FIFA World Cup 2014, has to foot part of the bill to fly blood and urine samples of footballers to Switzerland for doping tests."

"And many of those that do come back positive are for recreational drugs with negligible performance-enhancing effects, like cannabis. There are some in the anti-doping industry - and it is now an industry - who wonder why, if the point is to stop cheats, we bother testing for drugs that are deemed not to enhance performance. And when it costs £65,000 for each positive, there are those who wonder why we bother testing for drugs at all."

"Bayern Munich defender Philipp Lahm has stressed that football should take the doping problem seriously, but believes performance enhancing drugs are less effective in football than in other sports. The likes of cycling and sprinting have been plagued by doping scandals in recent years and Lahm feels it would be wrong to think there is no use of prohibited substances in football."