Soccer–Agreement reached over Saudi Al-Muwallad's doping ban - SAADC

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - World Cup - Asian Qualifiers - Group B - Saudi Arabia v Oman - King Abdullah Sport City Stadium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - January 27, 2022 Oman's Mataz Saleh in action with Saudi Arabia's Fahad Al Muwallad REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

(Reuters) - Al-Shabab striker Fahad Al-Muwallad will be free to resume playing in August after an agreement was reached with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) over the ban that cost him a place at last year's World Cup, Saudi doping officials said on Sunday.

Al-Muwallad, one of his country's most prolific goalscorers over the last decade, was handed the ban last May by the Saudi Arabian Anti-Doping Committee (SAADC) after he tested positive for the banned diuretic Furosemide.