now this comes just weeks before the world cup tournament kicks off in moscow the german investigative reporter how you example has previously helped to uncover a state run doping program in russian athletics he says that now footballers and the russians port authorities they've got some questions to answer. the russian doping scandal may also extend to the national football team russian officials are suspected of covering up test results making samples disappear which had the potential to implicate footballers some of whom have been selected for the hosts world cup squad german t.v. channel has obtained a list containing player names and code numbers of doping samples the list is based on information from investigators and intelligence gathered from a twenty fourteen raid on the moscow doping control board in that raid the world anti-doping agency wada seized samples with a typical test results that had not been investigated further by russian authorities samples from players in the current world cup squad were among them