Soccer: Italian player Baldo gets ban for cocaine use
Associated Press
BERN, Switzerland — Italian soccer player Luca Baldo has been banned from playing in Switzerland for two years after testing positive for cocaine.
Switzerland's Olympic committee said Wednesday the 26-year-old midfielder failed a drug test after playing for Lugano against St. Gallen in a Swiss League second-tier match on Dec. 1.
Baldo, who joined Lugano from Italian club Modena two years ago, is banned from Swiss soccer until Jan. 9, 2011.
Switzerland's national association must inform soccer's global governing body FIFA, which can extend the ban worldwide.
