Kazuki Ganaha

Kazuki Ganaha (Japanese我 那霸 和 树Ganaha Kazuki, born September 26, 1980 in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture) is a Japanese football player. From 1999 to 2008 he played for Kawasaki Frontale, from the 2006/07 season in the J. League. In 2009 he moved to the Vissel Kobe. He is the first Japanese national player of the Ryukyu Islands. His debut wearing the national jersey he gave on August 9, 2006 in a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago. So far, he scored three goals in six games for the national team.

Doping allegations

On 8 May 2007 Ganaha was sentenced to six -match suspension for doping. His doctor gave him an intravenous saline with vitamin B1, as he was suffering from a cold with fever and diarrhea, was dehydrated and could not drink. The corresponding treatment protocols of the League were sent correctly. The J-League interpreted this as doping because it saw no immediate need for the infusion and a request for approval of that was not present and so was offended the anti -doping rules of the league and fined the club and players. The International Court of Sport CAS lifted on 26 May 2008, the penalty on the grounds that the saline does not lead to an increase in performance and that the league had a duty to prove that the infusion was medically unnecessary.

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