Ex-Red Bull soccer player Jeff Parke upset about steroid ban for ALRI Jungle Warfare

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Ex-Red Bull Jeff Parke feels maligned on steroid ban
New York Daily News
In his first interview since he and Bulls goalkeeper Jon Conway were slapped last season with league-record 10-game suspensions and fined 10% of their annual salaries for using performance-enhancing drugs, Parke said it will take a long time before he is over the ban.

"It's tough," he said last week in Seattle, where he was negotiating with Seattle Sounders FC. "It's going to follow me for the rest of my life.

"It's something I have a lot of anger about, but I have to try to put behind me. I have to hope that people see me for what I am and look at me for the player I am and not for the banned substances.

"I'm still not over it. Everybody gets to read about it and everyone puts their opinion about who you are without seeing your face, knowing who you are or knowing what kind of character you have." [...]

Parke and Conway used [ALRI] Jungle Warfare, a banned substance by the league that is available in nutrition stores. Parke admitted that his mistake was not going to team trainer Rick Guter to double-check. ...


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