Testing positive for testosterone on August 20 after a match between Udine and Juventus, the 30-year-old French international was sentenced to a four-year suspension, Juventus announced to AFP on Thursday.
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It’s probably the end of a career. With a sentence of four years of suspension for doping following a positive test for testosterone on August 20, Paul Pogba, aged 30, sees his future on the football fields darkening. It was his club Juventus Turin which confirmed, Thursday February 29, to AFP, the sanction decided by the Italian anti-doping court. The latter therefore followed the requisitions of the anti-doping prosecution, in accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code and Article 11.2 paragraph 1 of the Italian Anti-Doping Code. Juventus said “take note” of the decision. “Of course he will appeal”reacted a relative of the player to AFP.
Provisionally suspended since September 11, the Juventus midfielder, world champion in 2018, had, since the start of the case, proclaimed his innocence, ensuring that the substance came from a food supplement prescribed by a doctor consulted in the United States. Testosterone, the hormone of fertility and male sexuality, promotes muscle development.
