Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been banned from soccer for four years for a doping offence.
France worldwide Pogba, 30, was randomly examined after Juventus’ first match of the season on 20 August.
BBC Sport has been advised Pogba will attraction in opposition to Italy’s nationwide anti-doping tribunal’s (Nado) resolution.
The failed medication take a look at was confirmed by Nado in a second sample in October, and the anti-doping prosecutor’s workplace had requested a four-year suspension.
The ruling means Pogba will likely be unable to play till 2027, when he will likely be 33, with the ban backdated to the date of the failed take a look at.
It is known Pogba believes that if he did take a banned substance, he did so inadvertently.
Speaking on the time of the preliminary suspension, Pogba’s agent, Rafaela Pimenta, stated: “What is definite is that Paul Pogba by no means wished to interrupt a rule.”
Testosterone is a hormone that will increase the endurance of athletes.
Nado stated Pogba had violated guidelines when prohibited non-endogenous testosterone metabolites had been discovered within the take a look at, and the outcomes had been “in keeping with the exogenous origin of the goal compounds”.
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