Bachini fails drugs test
Wednesday 13 October 2004
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Brescia Calcio's Jonathan Bachini has tested positive for cocaine following a match against S.S. Lazio.
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'Traces of cocaine'
The news came from the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), the independent sporting body in charge of drug-testing in Italy's top flight, which said in a press release: "The laboratory in Rome found, in the first sample, some traces of cocaine."
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Bachini, a 29-year-old former Italian international who was previously with Juventus FC, played the full 90 minutes of the Lazio game, a 2-0 home defeat.