LIMA: FIFA has cut its doping-related sanction of Peru's football captain Paolo Guerrero to a six-month suspension, half its previous year-long ban that would have kept him from playing in the country's first return to the World Cup in more than three decades, Guerrero's lawyer said on Wednesday.

Speaking in a broadcast interview on local TV channel Canal N, attorney Pedro Fida said his legal team would continue to work to absolve him. Earlier this month, FIFA banned Guerrero for one year for failing an anti-doping test for cocaine.