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FRENCH INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALLER Paul Pogba ’s four-year ban for doping has been reduced to 18 months, a spokesperson from the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Friday.
Pogba, who is under contract with Juventus until 2026, will be able to return to competitive football from March 11 next year, four days before his 32nd birthday.Advertisement He was provisionally suspended in September of the same year, and then banned for four years by the Italian National Anti-Doping Tribunal the following February.
After the ban was announced, Pogba posted on his Instagram account that he had “never knowingly or deliberately” taken doping products. On Friday evening, after the CAS ruling, his post was wordless, showing only a close-up of two feet wearing Pogba football boots with socks bearing his initials and decorated with the French flag and the two World Cup stars.— Paul Pogba October 4, 2024 A key figure when France won the 2018 world title in Russia, Pogba collected four Serie A titles in his first stint at Juventus but had a string of problems, on and off the pitch, after his 2022 return from Manchester United.
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