Call for WADA-like approach to corruption in soccer

[mtb Dad]

"This week, he called for the establishment of an independent, international agency to fight sports corruption — soccer included. And he wants Canadians to lead the way in much the same way as **** Pound championed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). With Pound as president, that body took drug use in sports by the scruff of the neck and changed forever what had been regarded as an unbreakable culture."
Investigative journalist Declan Hill
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/touch/sports/story.html?id=6607629

 

[DirtyWorks]

... With Pound as president, that body took drug use in sports by the scruff of the neck and changed forever what had been regarded as an unbreakable culture."

WADA is practically powerless. Inside the procedural structure of anti-doping WADA generates test results based on criteria provided by the federations.

The sports federations are in complete control. In the UCI's case, they set doping criteria to more or less not kill any riders, but other than that, doping continues and the UCI gets to decide which cases are processed. They liked Contador and if the fact he had a positive wasn't leaked, there would have been no positive. The UCI didn't like FuYu Li, so he's gone back to China.

So, if I were a bigwig inside soccer, I'd use this rhetoric too. A WADA-like agency becomes the finger puppet for soccer/football interests and almost no one is the wiser.

Don't get me wrong, guys like Pound and now Fahey are doing their best to actually have a working anti-doping program given their lack of influence. WADA doesn't have anywhere near the authority it should. And that is by design.

FYI: The link isn't working right. Maybe this one does? http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Starnes+Italian+soccer+fans+deserve+better/6607629/story.html

 

[BotanyBay]

UCI is supposedly bound by the ties of WADA, yet we all know that unless the WGB is truly interested in combatting the problem, then the problem won't be fought.