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Editorial
UEFA making vital contribution to football medicine
  1. Marc Vouillamoz
  1. Correspondence to Marc Vouillamoz, Medical and Anti-Doping, UEFA, Route de Genève 46, CH-1260 Nyon 2, Switzerland; Marc.Vouillamoz{at}uefa.ch

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-096360

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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