PARIS (Reuters) -- Former world footballer of the year Zinedine Zidane has been called to give evidence at the trial of two Juventus officials accused of sporting fraud.

General manager Antonio Giraudo and club doctor Riccardo Agricola are accused of administering banned drugs to players between 1994 and 1998.

The Frenchman played for Juventus from 1996 to 2001.

Raffaele Guariniello, the Turin-based magistrate whose three-year probe into drug use in Italian soccer prompted the start of the trial in January 2002, hoped to call other players associated with the Serie A club.

"I have asked him to attend a hearing on December 19," Guariniello told French newspaper Le Monde on Monday. "I want to hear from other players. From Zidane and the others I expect the truth. "They are witnesses in these legal proceedings and must tell exactly what happened in their club."

Last October Professor Gianmartino Benzi, a pharmacologist at the University of Pavia, told the trial that Juventus had a store containing 281 medicines. At least five anti-inflammatory drugs were prohibited. Giraudo and Agricola face six to eight months in prison.