Juve contest doctor bans in Cannavaro case

Juventus have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against two-month bans handed out to two club doctors.

Bartolomeo Goitre and Luca Stefanini were hit by the suspensions after giving a banned substance to Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro after he was stung by a wasp.

The centre-back escaped punishment for taking the substance but the troubled club’s doctors have instead been sanctioned by Italy’s national anti-doping body.

“We take into account the sanctions handed out by the national anti-doping body but remain firm in our conviction that the doctors Goitre and Stefanini offered the maximum collaboration with the relevant sporting institutions,” said a brief club statement.

Juventus applied for a doping exemption but failed to include all the necessary documents and Cannavaro subsequently failed a dope test following a match against AS Roma.

The former World Player of the Year was exonerated of any blame in November.