By Fawaz Adebisi
Paul Pogba, a French footballer and Juventus midfielder, has been suspended from football for four years due to a doping violation.
This was announced to Juventus on Thursday by the Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal, Nado.
According to the Nado, the decision was made after it confirmed the failed drugs test, based on a second sample, taken on Pogba in October.
Following the confirmation, it was gathered that the anti-doping prosecutor’s office requested the four-year suspension.
It was gathered that Nado found that Pogba had violated rules related to non-endogenous testosterone metabolites—substances not naturally produced by the body from testosterone.
The results indicated an “exogenous [external] origin of the target compounds.”
Therefore, the ban will prevent Pogba from playing until 2027, with the suspension backdated to the date of the failed test.
