Athletic Bilbao’s Álvarez Gets 10-month Suspension Over Banned Substance In Hair-loss Treatment

Athletic Bilbao centre-back Yeray Álvarez has been suspended for 10 months owed to a grounded doping trial aft a Europa League match, European soccer’s governing assemblage Uefa announced connected Monday.

The 30-year-old Spaniard tested affirmative for canrenone, a constituent prohibited successful and retired of competition, aft Bilbao’s 3-0 location conclusion by Manchester United successful nan semi-finals of Uefa’s second-tier nine title successful May.

Álvarez, who voluntarily accepted a provisional suspension successful June, stated nan pursuing period that he unintentionally ingested a banned constituent successful medicine utilized to dainty hairsbreadth loss. He was diagnosed pinch testicular crab successful 2016 and said he had been taking nan medicine arsenic portion of his curen for alopecia.

“At its gathering connected 19 August 2025, nan applicable Uefa disciplinary assemblage decided to suspend nan subordinate for 10 months, starting from nan day of nan provisional suspension (2 June 2025) and ending connected 2 April 2026, for committing a non-intentional anti-doping norm violation,” Uefa said successful a statment.

“In accordance pinch Article 10.14.2 of nan Uefa anti-doping regulations, nan subordinate whitethorn return to train pinch a squad aliases usage nan accommodation of a nine successful nan past 2 months of his play of ineligibility, arsenic of 2 February 2026.”

Álvarez came done Bilbao’s younker academy and has made 257 appearances successful each competitions for nan elder team.