PANO – The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has to conduct tests on all players for doping in the next football season 2013.

It is one of the new regulations that the General Department of Physical Training and Sports asked the VFF to revise the Professional Football Regulations.

Over the past years, in spite of remarkable achievements, many problems in the national professional football sector still need to be resolved, such as using banned substances.

At the Vietnam Olympic Committee for the tenure from 2012 to 2016, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh said that the newly-established National Sports Medicine and Doping Centre will help sports be free of illegal substances and reduce test expenses, as most of athletes’ specimens are sent to China and Malaysia for testing. Those violating the regulations will be severely punished.

Translated by Van Hieu