“In fact, I was doped.
"Garra Dembélé's confession is one of the highlights of L'Equipe's documentary," Broken Destinies, broadcast Tuesday evening.
This former hope of French football, trained at INF Clairefontaine with Hatem Ben Arfa or even Abou Diaby, tells about his career between the training center of Auxerre, Bulgaria and even Germany.
Two countries where he claims to have been confronted with very suspicious practices.
“In Bulgaria (Editor's note: he played at Lokomotiv Plovdiv and Levski Sofia), when we finished the Europa League matches, we took infusions, describes the ex-Malian international.
Right after the match, I took off my crampons and took the Perfs, because we had other matches coming up, two or three days later.
"Without having" any idea "of the product that was going through his body.
"There were products in my body which were not authorized in Germany"
"The only thing I can guarantee you is that when I signed in Germany, there were products in my body that were not authorized," explains the player from Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) .
In fact, when I arrived in Germany, I was doped.
I had hormones, I don't know… ”
But once in this country, which he joined after being recruited by Friborg, Garra Dembélé is also faced with other intriguing instructions. “I had a small box,” he describes. It had my number on it, the 11th. I had about ten pills to take after workouts. I didn't even know what it was. There were huge pills, it got stuck (Editor's note: he shows his throat). And if you didn't take them, you got a fine, in addition, in Germany. [...] It does not make one dream but it is the truth. It's like that. We see football on TV. But when you are inside, it's a complicated environment. "
“Zidane, he took creatine well when he left for Italy.
In France, it was not allowed.
He gained muscle mass, he developed, ”said the ex-player, who retired at 29 years old.
Tired of his struggles in the middle.
