That's BS. You can easily micro-dose EPO and they don't even do biological passports testing in football (like they do in cycling) which is the most effective way of catching blood-doping. They barely do blood testing in football. Do some research if you don't believe me. The reason footballers don't get caught is because the testing in football is a joke. Not because it's too risky to dope.
Go and read one of the books from the cyclists who used to blood dope and do EPO. They'll tell you how they got past the testing in cycling which for years have been more stringent than in football (and they were still getting away with it)
Tone down your attitude. Answer me this question.
- Androgenic steroids in allmost all shapes and forms are financially reasonable and easily obtained for the common guy.
- Erythropoetine is absurdly expensive. And nearly impossible to obtain
- Football completely pisses away cycling in terms of revenue and turnover
Cyclists cant use steroids to boost their hematocrit levels, so they used EPO first. That became easily to detect via specific markers. So they switched to the even more expensive blood enrichment, filtering and storage followed by transfusion. So then they added biological passports, in order to be able to detect blood transfusions.
Injecting EPO is simple. Enriching blood is not. You need to administer a person EPO and have him perform altitude training or hypoxia sprinting to increase his hematocrit levels just below 50 vol% and max out his 2.3 BPG. Then you filter it through a dialisys while administering various minerals and neccecary elements while filtering out others. This blood will be stored for transfusion later
Cyclists who do blood doping, use this blood in transfusions through a tour.
As said above. you use biological passports to detect these transfusions.
- FIFA/UEFA use 16,000 tests/year on urine AND blood
- They can much more easily finance biological passports compared to UCI. But they dont.
Question.
What is the reason UEFA/FIFA obviously arent using biological passports ?
Which football club was accused of administering EPO to its players, but when raided the police found ALOT, except EPO ?
Why isnt a single football player ever testing positive for EPO, but nearly always amphetamines or nadrolone ?