Overview
- Nationale Anti Doping Agentur (NADA) confirmed three missed whereabouts controls for Laura Freigang within 12 months and forwarded the case to the German Football Association for discipline, as reported on Wednesday.
- The DFB's Anti‑Doping Commission is now examining the documents and will decide whether to open formal proceedings or impose sanctions.
- Under anti‑doping rules, three missed tests or filing failures in a 12‑month span can count as an anti‑doping violation and carry a suspension of up to two years.
- Eintracht coach Niko Arnautis has left the captaincy decision open and said Freigang, who missed the first preseason session with illness, is handling the situation; Freigang says the missed controls were administrative misunderstandings and not deliberate avoidance.
- The case is procedural and still unsettled with no positive test reported, but a suspension would remove a key scorer and leader during a major squad rebuild and the early part of the season.