Fifa’s chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak believes it is time for referees to pass drug tests.
Under the decision of FIFA, referees will be subjected to pass a drug test just as football players, the Guardian reports.
"We have to consider referees as part of the game. We do not have an indication that this is a problem but this is something we have to look at,” Dvorak said at a conference in Budapest.
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