Alejandro Gomez confessed to having kept a secret from Lionel Messi and the Argentine national ... it had been ingested in the form of a cough syrup to treat bronchospasms. Despite this ...

Gomez, aged 36, vehemently denied any intentional wrongdoing, asserting that the presence of terbutaline in his system was a result of unwittingly ingesting his child’s cough syrup.