UEFA agreement with NADA is not necessary to attend Russian national football team at the European Championship – TASS

MOSCOW, 2 March. / Corr. Oleg Koshelev TASS /. Statement of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) is not necessary to attend the Russian national team at the European Championships. This TASS reported the press service of the UEFA

On Wednesday, UEFA announced the suspension of the anti-doping cooperation with Russia

“In order to UEFA -.. Agreements with NADA all 24 member countries of the final tournament of Euro-2016. However, this is not a prerequisite to check the players. we have conducted a comprehensive anti-doping test before Euro 2012, and before the start under the auspices of UEFA competitions without agreements with NADA. At the moment, we continue to check the Russian players, they continue to take doping tests by the World Anti-doping agency (WADA) “, – reported the press service of the UEFA

at the beginning of season 2015/16 UEFA has announced the launch of the anti-doping program.. The program includes the introduction of steroid biological passport of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in order to improve the identification of steroid use, strengthening the rule related to the location of teams and players, as well as long-term storage of samples.

UEFA have already signed agreements with 21 national Anti-Doping Agency. The list includes Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

it is noted that UEFA intends to sign similar agreements with all countries, teams that perform in the final tournament of the European championship in 2016 in France, before the start of the championship (June 10).