The Reason For Ronaldo Injuries? He Was Doped Says CBF Doctor

[Bobby Sands]

The Reason For Ronaldo Injuries? He Was Doped Says Doctor
A doctor at the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), who has since been fired, has sensationally claimed that the reason for Ronaldo’s horrific injury problems in recent years is because he was doped as a teenager at PSV Eindhoven.


El Fenomeno’s career could be over after he ruptured the tendon in his left knee on Wednesday night. This is the third time that the player has suffered such an injury, and his career has been ravaged by similar physical problems over the past decade.

Ronaldo Was Doped

Bernando Santi says that the reason why Ronaldo has suffered so many injuries is because when he signed for PSV Eindhoven in 1994 as a 17-year-old, he was regularly pumped full of anabolic steroids in order to build up the player physically and help him grow.

As a result Ronaldo then developed muscles that were unable to co-exist with his knee’s bone structure, leading to devastating problems in later years.

"I spoke to colleagues in Holland who know people at PSV,” Santi told the daily Folha de Sao Paulo.

“I did not get to talk to PSV doctors. They gave supplements to Ronaldo, who was very thin, and among those supplements they included some anabolic substances which could make him grow a bit more.”

Santi is in no doubt that it was these drugs that have caused the injuries.

"It is a consequence of having grown beyond what his muscles were prepared to grow," he insisted.

"He gained muscle mass very fast, when he still had not reached maturity. The bill for the use of steroids shows up long term, 10, 15 or 20 years later."

Ronaldo Was Abused - Socrates

Brazilian legend, Socrates, who is actually a fully qualified doctor in medicine, says that Ronaldo’s problems are as a result of the “abuse” he was subjected to earlier in his career.

"This was a pre-announced injury," the ex-Corinthians and Fiorentina star said.

"There is a difference between Ronaldo's muscle mass and the tendons on his knee. We have all seen Ronaldo grow too fast at the start of his career. That destroyed his knees forever.”

Santi Sacked

Since making these sensational comments, Santi has been sacked by the CBF, who feel that his words were inappropriate given the tough time Ronaldo is going through due to his injury.

"The CBF considered inappropriate his comments on a player who is going through such a delicate time," CBF spokesman Rodrigo Paiva told Brazilian sports news website UOL Esporte.

It remains to be seen the wider reaction in the football world to Santi’s bombshell.

I think that this could be very true.A lot of clubs were doping their own players in those days.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Could be true, but also its from Goal.com....that says it all. They are known for their ridiculus stories :laugh:

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^that site has gone to the dogs. It was good when it was soccerage.com though.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

True. Also a knee disease or whatever was found when Ronaldo was at PSV, he missed 4-5 months there and from that occured the injury at Inter.

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^i suppose he could just had bad knees. my cousin had serious problems with his knees. He was a pretty good hurling player but he kept twisting his knees and tearing ligaments. He is practically retired now at 26.

 

[hizzle?]

Well, whoever thinks that footy players are not doped, they are naive...

 

[Bobby Sands]

i wouldnt say they are now because if they are doped then they will be caught but back in those days alot of them were. The Juventus team that won the Champs League were supposed to have doped and Tony Cascarino mentioned in his auto-biography that he was doped while at Marseille.