The International Football Federation (FIFA) did not take sin on the eve of the 2018 World Cup in Russia and give reason for jokes to local fans of domestic ball wizards, and acquitted the accused of alleged use of banned drugs by Russian players from the expanded squad for the World Cup. This is stated in the statement of the federation, published on Tuesday, May 22. It follows from the document that FIFA closed cases based on the findings of the head of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) under the guidance of Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren. "Today, FIFA confirms that it has completed investigations into the Russian players who have joined the expanded squad for the 2018 World Cup. Sufficient evidence of violations of anti-doping rules by the Federation did not find. FIFA informed WADA about the results of the investigation, WADA agreed with the decision of FIFA to close the case, "- noted in the statement of the Federation. In FIFA stressed that the Russian team is one of the teams that most often undergoes doping control on the eve of the Russian mundialya. It is also stated that all the doping samples of our players mentioned in the McLaren report and the high-level football players taken by FIFA and confederations and stored in accredited WADA laboratories were re-analyzed for the presence of prohibited products in them, all of which gave a negative result. Negative results showed a re-examination of samples seized by WADA from the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory and stored in an accredited laboratory in Lausanne.

FIFA notes that "it used the methodology recommended by WADA and used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)". The document says that none of the Russian football players analyzed by the Federation of Doping has any traces of manipulation, there is no suspicious salt content in the urine. In addition, the organization sent to the Russian fugitive, the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov, relevant questions, the answers of which "were evaluated with the support of scientific and legal experts". Just the day before, on May 21, the German journalist from the ARD channel and the author of all libel in the Russian sport, Hayo Zeppelt, said that the Russian national team has players who took dope. He referred to the words Rodchenkov, with whom he interviewed for his next dokfilma, "exposing" the use of banned drugs by our athletes allegedly under the vigilant eye of the state.

According to the statements of the ex-head of the MAL who fled to the US, his personal boss Vitaly Mutko personally gave him orders not to touch Russian football players. Recall, FIFA tried to contact the informant WADA Rodchenkov in November and December 2017 to obtain evidence of the use of doping by Russian players, which he previously stated. It was reported that those attempts were unsuccessful. Apparently the same was reached. Yesterday, Russian fans mocked the version of the application of doping by domestic players. So, the writer Armen Gasparyan suggested that our people use brake fluid as forbidden substances.