France star Paul Pogba has been given a four-year ban from football by Italy’s anti-doping tribunal after testing positive for testosterone last August.
A spokesman for his club Juventus said on Thursday that it had been notified of the decision against the 30-year-old World Cup winner, who had been provisionally suspended in September.
Anti-doping prosecutors had called for the four-year ban to be imposed on the former Manchester United midfielder, who tested positive following Juventus’s opening match of the Italian Serie A season against Udinese on August 20, during which he was an unused substitute.
“We received notification from the tribunal this morning,” the spokesman said. Italy’s anti-doping body did not immediately respond when contacted by AFP.
Pogba’s representatives said the testosterone came from a food supplement prescribed by a doctor he consulted in the United States.
By Opeoluwa Michael-Ayobami
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