Mexico’s Ochoa won’t let career be ‘stained’
Posted June 10, 2011 4:15 pm.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, one of five players dropped from Mexico’s team after testing positive for a banned substance, says he won’t let his career be “stained by a thing I didn’t do.”
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Ochoa was removed from Mexico’s Gold Cup team on Thursday along with defenders Francisco Rodriguez and Edgar Duenas, and midfielders Christian Bermudez and Antonio Naelson, after the Mexican football federation said they had tested positive for clenbuterol.
Decio de Maria, the secretary general of the Mexican federation, said he believes the positive results came from the players eating contaminated beef. Last July, Tour de France champion Alberto Contador also tested positive for the banned anabolic agent and said he consumed the substance in tainted beef.
