Paul Pogba banned from football for four years over doping offence
Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has been handed a four-year ban from football over a failed drugs test.
The 30-year-old, a World Cup winner with France, failed doping test due to elevated levels of testosterone in August last year while playing for current club Juventus.
He was provisionally suspended in September. Counter analysis of a B sample found the same results produced by his initial doping test in August, leaving his fate in the hands of Italy’s anti-doping prosecutor’s office.
A four-year ban from all football has now been confirmed by Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal (NADO).