PORTUGAL MANAGER CARLOS Queiroz has been given a six-month ban after a ruling that he disrupted an anti-doping test during this summer’s World Cup.

The Portuguese Football Federation (PFF) had already suspended Queiroz in May after the incident for one month. Portugal’s Sport Institute claimed that Queiroz had insulted an anti-doping team and disrupted their work.

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“The [sport] institute’s report said that after hearing evidence from all those involved a conclusion was reached that Queiroz’s intimidating behaviour had unsettled the anti-doping team and that, as a result, one of the inspectors failed to correctly carry out a test at the training camp. None of the players tested positive. Queiroz has previously admitted he was angry that the unannounced early morning tests had disturbed the players and admitted that he used inappropriate language.”

Queiroz will now miss Portugal’s first four Euro 2012 qualifying matches. His assistant Agostinho Oliveira has been put in charge for the upcoming matches against Cyprus and Norway.

Sir Alex Ferguson, under whom Queiroz worked at Manchester United, testified last month as a character witness at the PFF’s inquiry.