Zimbabwe: Chafa in Raging Storm

27 August 2013

ZIMBABWE international footballer, Devon Chafa, is the eye of a doping storm after tests on his urine samples, after a 2014 World Cup qualifier against Egypt in Harare in July, showed traces of a prohibited substance.The 22-year-old Dynamos midfielder, who claims that he could have taken the prohibited substance from drugs prescribed by a family doctor for a routine treatment of cure, has been helping Fifa with their enquiries and hasn't been cited, yet, for a hearing or suspended from playing football.

Senior sports medicine experts in this country have been handling Chafa's case, since notification was received that tests on his urine sample had shown traces of a prohibited substance, helping the midfielder outline his case to help the Fifa enquiries.

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