Norway’s anti-doping agency selected five players from the Norwegian national team for testing. There was just one problem: two of them had already died and one of them was not called up because he was injured.
The Norwegian football team received a visit from the country’s anti-doping agency on Tuesday, with a view to carrying out tests on five players pre-determined by the controlling institution. What was not expected was that two of the five players to be analysed had already died and one of them had not been called up due to injury.
The list of names that were supposedly to undergo tests included Einar Gundersen, Jorgen Juve, Erling Haaland, Oscar Bobb and Antonio Nusa. It turns out that the name (Gundersen) He is the third best scorer in the history of the Norwegian national team and died in October 1962 and the second name (Juve) is the team’s all-time leading scorer and died in April 1983.
Manchester City player Oscar Bobb, a colleague of Erling Haaland, another of those targeted by Anti-Doping Norway, has been out injured for a month (a broken leg) and still has no date to return to competition. That is why he was not called up.
Norwegian coach Stale Solbakken took the serious mistake of the anti-doping organisation with humour. “We had to call Anti-Doping Norway to ask if this was serious. My theory is that they looked at the list of top scorers and mentioned names. Gundersen and Juve were called up too late and their tests came back negative.”Solbakken said at a press conference reported by VG.
After the press conference, the communications director of Anti-Doping Norway spoke about this unusual case, admitting a misunderstanding. “The truth is that there was a big mistake, we have to do more things right.”
To ensure that the visit was not a complete failure, Haaland and Nusa underwent the anti-doping tests requested by the organisation.
Source: Observadora
