Canadian training coach Valerio Moscariello has been proscribed for 12 years for administering steroids.

Moscariello acknowledged that he gave steroids to Amanda Galle of Mississauga, Ont., national-level boxer who got two-year ban last April after testing positive for nandrolone.

Moscariello told the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) that he by mistake injected Galle with deca-durabolin, a steroid that he used individually.
Galle won the Canadian boxing championships last February in Edmonton, but the title was later rewarded to runner-up Alison Hunter when Galle's doping abuse was discovered in an in-competition test in Trois Rivieres, Que.

Moscariello worked as a training coach, personal trainer and nutritional specialist, but his ban prevents him from taking part in any sport at any level and in any role.

"The CCES has the conscientiousness to examine any doping action within the Canadian sport system, including athletes and their support personnel," Paul Melia, the CCES president and CEO, said in a report. "Long bans of coaches and other sport support personnel can be a successful method to get rid of such depressing influence from the system."