Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published on Sunday, 04 May 2025, 08:35 / Updated Sunday, 04 May 2025 08:36
Niko Mihic, a former head of the medical compartment at Real Madrid, accused Barcelona's players of doping!
The bandages worn by players in their hands or arms are fashionable in football. In the case of many players, they are for previously suffered wounds, for others they are simply superstitions, but in some of them more than suspicious subterfuges.
Niko Mihic: “If you want to get faster venous access, it is through hands and wrists”
Or at least that's how the former head of the Real Madrid medical compartment, Niko Mihic, insinuates. In an interview given to the daily Marca, he made an incendiary statement: “I do not know what is happening, but I mean that any doctor knows that if you want to get faster venous access, it is through hands and wrists.”
His statement has made waves in Spain, and as Barcelona players have been abusing such bandages lately, many have considered it a veiled accusation against the current leader in Leliga!
Seven Barcelona players are indirectly targeted by Niko Mihic
From Robert Lewandowski to Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and Frenkie de Jong to Pablo Torre, Pau Víctor and Gavi, they all get used to carrying bandages. Ironic, Mihic commented: “They could use bandages because they plan strategy games or play too much table football and have tendon … as you might think they did not bribe the Negreira.”
The allusion is obvious to the former arbitrator Jose María Enríquez Negreira, former vice-president of the Technical Commission of the referees, who would have been bribed by Barcelona with a total amount of 7.3 million euros, over 17, to assure the Catalans favorable.
And Real Madrid players wore bandages!
The problem is that in the years in which Mihic led Real Madrid's medical department, more precisely between 2017 and 2023, bandages could also be seen on the hands of some galactic players. This is Antonio Rudiger or before Karim Benzema and Sergio Ramos.
Real Madrid broke up in 2023 by the Croatian doctor because of the numerous injuries facing the team. Cap has put the treatment that Niko Mihic had prescribed to Arda Guler and who gave the expected results.
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