 Kallon faces a two-year ban |
Sierra Leonean striker Mohamed Kallon faces a two-year ban after the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni)announced that his 'B' sample confirmed an earlier positive test for the steroid nandrolone. The 24-year-old Inter Milan striker previously tested positive for the banned substance following a routine check after Inter's league match against Udinese on 27 September.
Although the length of his ban, which will be decided by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), could be up to two years, previous bans have ranged between two and six months.
Lawyers representing Inter Milan and Kallon have declared that they will demand supplementary tests.
Kallon had been expected to captain Sierra Leone in their second leg 2006 Nations Cup and World Cup qualifying game against Congo in Freetown on Saturday, but he will no longer play in the tie.
The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA)received a fax from world football governing Fifa which has ruled that he is ineligible for the encounter.
Kallon is one of two African players in Italian football that have tested positive for a banned substance this season.
Perugia's Libyan striker Al-Saadi Gaddafi, who tested positive for the same substance, blamed medicines prescribed for backache when he tested positive for norandrosterone - a metabolite of nandrolone.
Gaddafi is yet to receive any result from a 'B' test.
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