FIFA president Sepp Blatter said here that football's governing body would discuss its plans to introduce the biological passport for players with anti-doping chiefs today. "The biological passport is what we want to do and we want to take a step ahead in the fight against doping," Blatter said yesterday at a debate on sports and doping.<br /><br />"We are working on that. Tomorrow we will have meetings with the people from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)," he added. The meeting is due to take place at FIFA headquarters in Zurich. A biological passport is designed to keep permanent record of an athlete's blood and urine parameters to detect any suspicious changes, instead of relying on random tests alone.<br /><br />However, the exact format of FIFA's proposed passport and testing regime was unclear. FIFA and WADA have frequently been at loggerheads over anti-doping measures. Blatter has rejected making footballers available for random out-of-competition drugs testing 365 days a year, a measure introduced this year for athletes in all sports under the world anti-doping code.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said here that football's governing body would discuss its plans to introduce the biological passport for players with anti-doping chiefs today.

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