Ex-German league player admits to doping offences

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

BERLIN (AFP) — Former Bundesliga coach Michael Krueger admitted on Friday he took a banned stimulant as a player and says he saw other footballers use the same drug.

After former Schalke 04 coach Peter Neururer revealed on Thursday he saw players taked the banned stimulant Captagon in the early 1990s, Krueger, Neurerer's former assistant coach at Schalke, says he also took the drug as a teenager.

Doping is a hot topic in German sport at the moment after several cyclists admitted they took the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoetin) in the 1990s and the German government has set up a working party to look into the issue.

But Krueger, who now coaches at FC Saarbuecken in a regional league, told German on-line magazine Sport-Bild he took the banned stimulant....

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