André Onana He returned to play in December, after nine months of punishment for a doping-related sanction. In a urine sample, they detected furosemide, a prohibited substance.
The goalkeeper looks back on a year in which he received the FIFA sanction like a hard stick, with the conviction that it was a stupid mistake, when he took a pill that belonged to his pregnant wife, instead of a medication that the doctors had given him: “I went for a headache pill and mixed up the boxes. I took the pill that the doctor had prescribed for Melanie (his wife), the boxes were practically identical“, remember speaking to The Players Tribune.
‘How do you explain to your parents? You don’t drink, never had a drink, never smoked anything and now they are saying you’re a drug addict?’
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“I was in shock. It wasn’t an excuse I just made up, I wasn’t trying to cheat, it was a stupid mistake. After all, I thought they’d say to me like, ‘These things happen, be more careful next time. I thought they would show me the yellow card, but they showed me the red card directly. Twelve months without football, prohibited. That, for a footballer is like ten years, an eternity“, regrets.
Onana assures that she celebrated “like a Champions“when they reduced the sanction from twelve to nine months. And that last February, he felt”that had been taken from me for all that I had worked for“.
In the headlines, you could see phrases like “Onana, sanctioned for doping“Like a junkie.”And although my colleagues supported me, I felt alone“.
“I get it, the law is the law. If you ‘fuck’ her, you pay. And i paid“And from there they changed some things to André Onana, who had a nine-month journey in which he continued to maintain his form and see life from another perspective: “He needed that time to give it another focus. Now I’m playing again, and my dreams remain the same as when I was a child“.
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And he lists his wishes for what lies ahead and reflects: “Everybody falls. But it’s about how you wake up“.
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