Paul Pogba has reportedly been banned from football for four years due to doping.
The punishment effectively ends the World Cup winners’ career as the Juventus midfielder turns 31 years old in March. He is expected to appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The midfielder, who has been suspended since September, was tested in August and results showed elevated levels of testosterone, a hormone that increases athletes’ endurance.
The tribunal said Pogba had violated anti-doping rules when they found the prohibited substance non-endogenous testosterone metabolites, adding that the results were consistent with the exogenous origin of the target compounds.
A second test sample has now been checked and Pogba has been handed a four-year ban, considered among the strongest possible punishments for the offence.
