Doping Agency will work together on a new anti-doping program to test top-level football players. FIFA president Sepp Blatter and WADA president John Fahey met Thursday at FIFA headquarters to finalize the agreement. The organizations will work with WADA-accredited laboratories to design a research project that could start next year. The plan will likely be modeled on cycling's biological passport program. Athletes give regular samples to create individual body chemistry profiles that allow scientists to see evidence of doping, rather than search for banned substances. Football conducts 33,000 doping controls annually, with 0.3 percent testing positive.
