Football Federation Australia Gave Drug Testing Notice To Athlete Usain
Football Federation Australia Gave Drug Testing Notice To Athlete Usain: Former Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt has been served with a drug testing notice by the Football Federation Australia, AFP has reported.
Bolt, who quit international athletics to prove his mettle in football, is playing with Australia’s Central Coast Mariners on trial basis.
“So guys I’ve retired from track and field looking to become a footballer but look at this,” Bolt said Monday via an Instagram video.
He asked that how was he going to get a drug test when he has not even become a professional footballer?
“So I asked the lady, ‘Why am I getting drug tested when I haven’t signed for a club yet?’ and she said they told her I’m an elite athlete so I have to get tested. Okay then.” He recently scored two goals for the Mariners in a pre-season friendly.
Usain Bolt has been given the opportunity chance to train with the A-League side for an indefinite period.
Usain Bolt has instructed his management to knock back the chance to take up an immediate professional contract with a club in Malta in a bid to prove himself in the A-League.
The Jamaican superstar confirmed the decision today, telling Central Coast chief executive Shaun Mielekamp that he wants to stay in Australia and fight legitimately for a contract with the Mariners.
Club sources confirmed that Bolt had met with Mielekamp today and told him of his decision over a coffee. Mielekamp was unavailable for comment. There were suggestions Bolt would take up a deal with Maltese Premier League club Valletta FC after the jumped in with an unconditional two plus one year offer that would not require him to trial.
Backed by a Middle Eastern consortium which recently took over Valletta, the club is understood to have offered him a lucrative deal. Bolt’s manager also confirmed the decision to reject the Valletta offer.
“There is a lot of interest in Usain playing football,” Ricky Simms told ESPN. “We regularly receive similar approaches. I can confirm Usain does not wish to pursue this opportunity in Malta.”
Bolt, 32, has been trialling with the A-League club since August and has had a total of 140 minutes of football over three trial matches. He captured the imagination of the sporting world when he scored a brace of goals in a trial last Friday with the video highlights of the goals attracting more than six million hits on the Mariners official Twitter handle.
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