Drug testing is Soccer is roughly where it was in Cycling circa 1997.
Yes, there is testing but it only catches people who are stupid.
There is plenty of evidence of systematic doping in professional soccer. For example, 150 out of the 200 samples in the "Operation Puerto" performance-enhancing drugs case in Spain were not associated with Cycling[1], and it is pretty easy to find out what clubs the doctor (Fuentes) was associated with.
No one is publishing the allegations, because the Puerto evidence was destroyed (!!) and publishers are wary of the lawsuits that Lance Armstrong launched in the mid 2000's when allegations of his doping were first published[2]. The closest you'll get is stories like [3], which are careful to be non-specific.
But read a few forums and it's pretty clear that many clubs have well funded, systematic doping programs.
Personally, I think it's likely professional tennis is just as bad - and their testing is even worse than soccer.
Yes, there is testing but it only catches people who are stupid.
There is plenty of evidence of systematic doping in professional soccer. For example, 150 out of the 200 samples in the "Operation Puerto" performance-enhancing drugs case in Spain were not associated with Cycling[1], and it is pretty easy to find out what clubs the doctor (Fuentes) was associated with.
No one is publishing the allegations, because the Puerto evidence was destroyed (!!) and publishers are wary of the lawsuits that Lance Armstrong launched in the mid 2000's when allegations of his doping were first published[2]. The closest you'll get is stories like [3], which are careful to be non-specific.
But read a few forums and it's pretty clear that many clubs have well funded, systematic doping programs.
Personally, I think it's likely professional tennis is just as bad - and their testing is even worse than soccer.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_association_football#...
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/22/uk-libel-laws-s...
[3] http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1786/fifa/2013/01/18/3682007/...