Explosive Vuskovic news: did he suspect the HSV doctors? | OneFootball

After a total four-year break, Mario Vuskovic will be allowed to return to the football field in November 2026. But could he theoretically have been playing again long ago?

A new, explosive dimension has come to light in the doping case involving HSV professional Mario Vuskovic. According to research by NDR and BR, the Croatian apparently suspected at the beginning of the proceedings that it was precisely the HSV team doctors who might have unknowingly injected him with EPO. This internal matter was even hinted at by Vuskovic himself in an email later sent to Norwegian experts and passed on to ARD.

The defender described in it that he had received intravenous vitamin injections from the club doctors over several months. This was particularly the case during a phase when he felt injured and exhausted. Such a hint would have been crucial for his defense at the time. However, Vuskovic distanced himself from this suspicion during the course of the trial. And this is precisely what raises questions now.

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Did the professional deliberately protect the club doctors? Or was there a tacit agreement between the player and the club not to bring up the injections as a possible explanation in the proceedings? HSV and Vuskovic firmly deny such agreements. Both the club and the doctors emphasize in writing that there were no undocumented injections. The treatments were fully documented.

"The ongoing support for Mario Vuskovic is based on the serious doubts about the validity of the doping finding, which persist even after a thorough examination of the judgments of the DFB sports court and the CAS," reads a statement from HSV.

However, experts, including the renowned biochemist Douwe de Boer, see the matter less clearly. Although de Boer personally believes in Vuskovic's innocence, he found no errors in the analysis of the B sample. The sample is "clearly positive," confirms Dr. Sven Voss, the head of the doping control laboratory in Kreischa.

What remains particularly explosive is that if Vuskovic had cooperated from the start, disclosed all injections, and made possible sources of error transparent, his suspension could likely have been significantly reduced, according to NADA chief Lars Mortsiefer. The defender might have been back on the field long ago.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.