French midfielder Paul Pogba has been banned for four years for a doping offence.
Two years after joining Manchester United for a record-breaking £89 million, Pogba became the most expensive football player in the world. In 2018, he won the World Cup with France.
Pogba, who turns 31 in March, tested positive for the prohibited drug testosterone on August 20. On the day, Juventus played Udinese in Serie A and Pogba was an unused substitute.
Pogba was suspended by Italy’s national anti-doping authority, and the sports prosecutor there have now given him a four-year penalty.
The banned material was discovered to have “non-endogenous testosterone metabolites,” according to a tribunal, which also stated that the findings were “consistent with the exogenous origin of the target compounds.”
