Looks like Fabio Cannavaro’s positive drug test excuse is valid after the lead Italian Olympic Committee’s (CONI) anti-doping prosecutor has officially recommended the 36 year old Juventus defender should not be on the receiving end of a suspension.

Via Soccernet 

CONI’s Ettore Torri, who question Cannavaro on Friday, will now recommend to an anti-doping tribunal, due to meet in the coming days, that the Italy captain should not receive any sanction.

“The prosecutor asks for the Cannavaro case to be dropped,” a statement from the prosecutor’s office said. “We can exclude (the possibility) that Cannavaro is responsible. This office reserves the right to make further judgements in the future over other parties…which were responsible.”

Cannavaro,36, requested exemption to take Neoton after being treated in hospital but did not receive it before he was dope tested and CONI said that after the exemption request arrived it had written to the player asking for a doctor’s certificate.

“I am happy the prosecutor has asked for my case to be dropped because this shows he appreciates my good faith and my behaviour,” Cannavaro told the Juventus website. “I had no doubt that this would happen and I am sorry that such an insignificant incident generated so much clamour.”

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