The Nigerian striker Orji Okonkwo has been issued a four year’s ban after found guilty of doping violations according to FIFA rules.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old, who plays for Serie A side Bologna, was initially handed the ban by the national anti-doping agency (Nado Italia) in June.<\/span><\/p>\n Fifa’s disciplinary committee has now extended the Nado Italia sanctions to have a\u00a0 <\/span>“worldwide effect”, according to its chairperson Jorge Ivan Palacio.<\/span><\/p>\n “Consequently, the Committee decided to extend the sanction imposed on the player by the Italian Nado on 20 June 2022,” read a Fifa statement.<\/span><\/p>\n “More specifically, the player is sanctioned with a four year suspension from all football-related activities in accordance with the decision.”<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018\u2019His ban has been backdated to 25 February and he will be free to play again on 24 February 2026.\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n The player\u2019s representative has been informed \u00a0 <\/span>that he will appeal against the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).<\/span><\/p>\n Credit: \/\/ BBC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nigerian striker Orji Okonkwo has been issued a four year’s ban after found guilty of doping violations according to FIFA rules. The 24-year-old, who plays for Serie A side Bologna, was initially handed the ban by the national anti-doping agency (Nado Italia) in June. Fifa’s disciplinary committee has now extended the Nado Italia sanctions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1437,5834,826,5833],"class_list":["post-10403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ban","tag-doping-violations","tag-fifa","tag-nigerian-striker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}