Juventus midfielder Pogba banned for four years after failed anti-doping test
France star, Paul Pogba has been given a four-year ban from football by Italy’s anti-doping tribunal, after testing positive for testosterone last August.
The spokesman for his club Juventus, said it had been notified of the decision against the 30-year-old World Cup winner, who had been provisionally suspended in September.
Anti-doping prosecutors had called for the four-year ban to be imposed on the former Manchester United midfielder, who tested positive following Juventus’s opening match of the Italian Serie A season against Udinese on August 20, during which he was an unused substitute.
A month later a B sample confirmed the presence of testosterone, and he has been provisionally suspended since.
Pogba’s representatives said the testosterone came from a food supplement prescribed by a doctor he consulted in the United States.
Pogba, who returned to Juventus for a second spell in 2022 after six years at United, was a key member of the France team that won the World Cup in Russia in 2018, scoring in the final against Croatia.
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