欧足联11月8日证实，在今年9月份未能通过尿检的英超米德尔斯堡队后卫萨维尔，其B瓶尿检仍然呈阳性。

    据《卫报》11月8日报道，欧足联发言人表示：“萨维尔B瓶尿检结果仍呈阳性。欧足联纪律委员会将就此举行一次听证会，时间暂定在11月17日。”虽然，欧足联已证实了萨维尔尿检结果呈阳性，但并没有具体透露他涉嫌服用了哪种违禁药物。但据媒体报道，其成分很可能是属于类固醇一类的“大力补”。

    如果欧足联纪律委员会最终判定萨维尔服用了违禁药物，那么这位现年32岁的前葡萄牙国脚将面临长达12个月的禁赛处罚。

    据报道，萨维尔是在今年9月29日代表米德尔斯堡队客场同希腊萨丁队进行完联盟杯比赛之后被检测出尿样呈阳性的。那场比赛双方战成0：0。不过检测结果直到萨维尔上个月跟随米德尔斯堡队乘机前往瑞士参加联盟杯对阵瑞士草蜢队比赛的时候才被正式公布出来。在结果宣布之后，萨维尔一直宣称自己在这件事上没有任何过错。“如果B瓶尿检也呈阳性，我想这其中一定有一个合理的解释。”萨维尔事后通过他的代理律师发表了上述声明。米德尔斯堡队主教练麦克拉伦表示，俱乐部将全力支持萨维尔，以证明他在这件事上完全是无辜的。

    Uefa today confirmed that Middlesbrough defender Abel Xavier's B sample proved positive after his failed drugs test in September.

    The 32-year-old former Portugal international will now go before the governing body's control and disciplinary board later this month and could face a 12-month ban from the game.

    "The sample B is positive, it's confirmed," said a Uefa spokesman. "The control and disciplinary board of Uefa will judge his case at a hearing which has been provisionally set for November 17, but the date is not yet confirmed."

    Uefa has not revealed the identity of the banned substance involved, but reports have claimed it is the anabolic steroid Dianabol.

    Xavier has strenuously denied any wrongdoing and has been building up a defence since it was revealed his A sample had tested positive. He was tested in Greece after Boro's 0-0 Uefa Cup draw with Xanthi on September 29, and the results were revealed as the Teessiders jetted off to Switzerland for last month's 1-0 win over Grasshoppers in the same competition.

    Xavier, who has been suspended pending the investigation, will have the opportunity to attend the hearing to plead his case in person, and has insisted there is a reasonable explanation.

    "I am convinced that there is a reasonable and entirely harmless explanation for such positive finding, should it be confirmed by the analysis of the B-sample," he said in a statement issued through his lawyers in the wake of the initial results.

    Manager Steve McClaren has promised the club's full support in his fight to prove his innocence. "He is protesting his innocence vehemently at the moment," he said recently.