Manchester City Kolo Toure Defender will miss the start of next season after be handed a ban of six months of football all for not having a drugs test.
The ban is dated back to March 2, when the provisional suspension of Toure began.
He is free to play on 2 September, but it will be also tested the target for a period of two years from May 26.
"This has been a difficult period, and I am sad to have missed the triumph of team securing football Champions League and the cup of England," Toure said.
"But I am relieved to learn that I will be able to return to football in September and to thank the commission of the FA for their understanding."
An independent regulatory commission, which might have been something of a warning issued to a ban of two years of sentence, reached the verdict after a hearing Thursday.
Touré has admitted the offence - his first - unlike rule 3 of the doping regulations 2010-2011 FA. But the Committee took into account the circumstances behind his use of tablets of water belonging to his wife.
On 4 March, the manager of Arsenal Arsene Wenger - Toure in England which was introduced by signing him - revealed: "he wants to control his weight a bit because that is where it has a few problems and it has taken the product of his wife."
"It is a boy who has a life of its own, a very honest life." I simply think it is a mistake. ?
Led by Christopher Quinlan QC, the commission was satisfied that Toure did not intend to improve athletic performance or hide the use of a substance performance-enhancing.
A member of the Group of experts felt it should not have been banned for more than three months, but the majority disagreed.
Quinlan, said: "the test in the evaluation of any reduction in what would otherwise be the minimum sentence of two years suspension is degree of player misconduct." The player has agreed a fault and we are in agreement with this concession.
"He has committed a fault in limited and superficial, efforts he makes on the tablets of water;" the controls that it formulated on these tablets were inadequate and fell some way below what it would be reasonable to expect a professional footballer in these circumstances.
"In setting the suspension period took account of all relevant issues we have read and heard at the hearing.".
"The period of suspension proposed by Mr. Lewis QC has been a step in excess of three months." With respect, we disagree. In our view, the period of suspension is one of the six months beginning on March 2, 2011. ?
The decision means that it cannot participate in a game of football or any other football-related activity that the fight against doping programs education or rehabilitation, until the expiration of his ban.
The decision supplements a nightmare for Toure season, which began with him losing the capitanat of Manchester City for Carlos Tevez on 18 August.
Touré has been tested in the Manchester derby in February, while he was an unused substitute. Ivory Coast defender was suspended on March 3, after that her a - sample tested positive for "a specified substance."
Touré is under contract with the city until the summer of 2013. He was one of several high - profile arrivals Summer 2009 as Manager while Mark Hughes has spent more than 100 m ￡ on new players.
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