Deco's one-year doping ban lifted by CAS

In September 2013, the Superior Tribunal de Justica Desportiva de Futebol suspended the 36-year-old due to an alleged anti-doping violation.

However, following a re-test of urine samples provided by the ex-Porto, Barcelona and Chelsea playmaker, FIFA informed CAS that "no prohibited substance(s) or metabolite(s) or marker(s) of a prohibited method(s) on the test menu were detected". 

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