Dopey Norway drug bosses select footballers for testing decades after their deaths
Among players were record national team scorer Jorgen Juve and Einar Gundersen, who died in 1983 and 1962, respectively
The Norwegian anti-doping agency has inadvertently selected players who died many years ago for testing ahead of Nations League matches, national team coach Stale Solbakken said.
Among the selected players were record national team scorer Jorgen Juve and Einar Gundersen, who is regarded as one of Norwegian football’s first star players.
Juve died in 1983, while Gundersen passed away in 1962.
“We were visited by the anti-doping agency yesterday,” Solbakken told a news conference on Wednesday.
When the names of the players selected for testing were read out, he was surprised and asked if this was “candid camera,” referring to a possible prank.
“They probably only checked the top of the list with the top scorers,” the coach joked.
