{"id":325,"date":"2024-03-23T01:08:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T01:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigeriaradiostations.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2024-03-23T01:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T01:08:38","slug":"paul-pogba-slammed-with-4-year-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriaradiostations.com\/blog\/paul-pogba-slammed-with-4-year-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"French midfielder Paul Pogba slammed with 4-year ban for doping"},"content":{"rendered":"

France’s football star, Paul Pogba, has been handed a four-year football ban by Italy’s anti-doping tribunal, as confirmed by his current club, Juventus, on Thursday.<\/h3>\n

The 30-year-old World Cup champion tested positive for testosterone last August and had been under provisional suspension since September.<\/p>\n

“We received notification from the tribunal this morning,” the spokesperson said. Italy’s anti-doping body did not immediately respond when contacted by Agence France-Presse (AFP).<\/p>\n

Anti-doping prosecutors had called for the four-year ban to be imposed on the former Manchester United midfielder, who tested positive following Juventus’ opening match of the Italian Serie A season against Udinese on Aug. 20, during which he was an unused substitute.<\/p>\n

A month later, a B sample confirmed the presence of testosterone, and he has been provisionally suspended since.<\/p>\n

His representatives said the testosterone came from a food supplement prescribed by a doctor he consulted in the United States.<\/p>\n

Pogba, who returned to the Old Lady 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.<\/p>\n

His positive doping test came as he was trying to put behind him a difficult first season back at Juve, in which he made just 10 appearances and was troubled by off-field issues, including an investigation into an extortion attempt against him.

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