Paul Pogba reportedly failed a drug test following Juventus’s Serie A game against Udinese on 20 August
Paul Pogba could face a ban of up to four years after failing a drug test. Reports in Italy claim that the France international tested positive for testosterone in a random drug test following Juventus’s Serie A game against Udinese on 20 August, when he was an unused substitute.
Elevated levels of testosterone were reported to have been found, which means Pogba’s second sample would also need to be checked. Pogba has been provisionally suspended by the Italian anti-doping authority . According to Italian media, Pogba has three days to produce a counter-analysis of the result. If found guilty of doping, a suspension of between two and four years could be handed out.According to Fifa, players can be banned for two or four years, subject to appeal and a reduction or suspension, if found to have violated its anti-doping regulations, depending on whether it can be proven that the rule violation was intentional.
The 30-year-old has only returned to action this season having missed most of the last campaign with knee and hamstring injuries. He rejoined Juventus
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