And on Wednesday, Yeray spoke to the media (via Sport<\/a>) to reflect on the incident. He started by stating that he had no knowledge that the medication he took was a banned substance.<\/p>\n \u201cI have been sanctioned for ten months by UEFA for taking a banned substance. I want to make it clear that I have never known that I was taking a banned substance. In the end, that is what I would like to make clear. I have not taken any substance to increase my performance.\u201d<\/p>\n Yeray explained the backstory behind the situation, which related to when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer back in 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2016 I started a chemotherapy process, a hard time. The biggest fear is hair loss.\u00a0As a result of this process and after overcoming it, in one of the check-ups with the oncologist he told me about a certain treatment for alopecia. After chemo I started to lose hair, to have it weaker. I started such treatment in 2022. It consisted of taking a pill and a hair spray.\u00a0It was a treatment that from the first moment I mentioned to Josean (the club\u2019s medical director). I have taken this medication all this time and to this day I continue to do so.<\/p>\n \u201cMy partner, Naia, started the same treatment in December. It was a pill shot, a hair spray. A treatment that is carried out at night, before getting into bed. The week before the match against Manchester United, when I went to take one of the pills I take at night plus the hair spray I realized that I didn\u2019t have any. I went to get the spare bottle and I didn\u2019t have it.\u00a0As a result of stress, because I had my routine and I didn\u2019t have the pill, I decided to take my partner\u2019s pill thinking that I had exactly the same as mine. We thought he had a substance called minoxymil without knowing that he had another substance that was prohibited.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post “I decided to take my partner’s pill” – Athletic Club star explains positive doping test<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Athletic Club will be without Yeray Alvarez for the next 10 months, after he was sanctioned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/piquant-burotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Yeray-1.jpg\")
Yeray gives insight into positive doping test<\/h2>\n