Mutu banned for 9 months (AP)

ROME (AP)—Fiorentina forward Adrian Mutu has been suspended for 9 months bythe Italian Olympic Committee’s antidoping tribunal.

The 31-year-old Romanian twice tested certain for sibutramine followinggames opposite Bari as well as Lazio in January, as well as will be incompetent to fool around until Oct.29.

“I’m not happy,” Mutu pronounced Monday. “A suspension this long for a laxativeseems excessive.”

In 2004, Mutu received a seven-month anathema for contrast certain for cocainewhile with Chelsea.

His counsel pronounced they an interest was probable to a Court of Arbitration forSport in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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