world cup soccer tournament begins in moscow there are new accusations of russian being german journalists have revealed evidence suggesting that russian authorities covered up doping test results for soccer players in the country's world cup squad and the german investigative reporter. uncovered a state run doping program in russian athletics he says russian soccer now has 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 have the potential to implicate footballers some of whom have been selected for the hosts world cup squad german t.v. channel a r d 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