A spokesman for the club told AFP it had been notified of
the decision against the 30-year-old World Cup winner, who had been
provisionally suspended in September.
“We received notification from the tribunal this morning,”
the spokesman said. Italy’s anti-doping body did not immediately respond when
contacted by AFP.
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.
A month later a B sample confirmed the presence of
testosterone, and he has been provisionally suspended since.
Pogba’s representatives said the testosterone came from a
food supplement prescribed by a doctor he consulted in the United States.
Pogba, who returned to Juventus for a second spell in 2022
after six years at United, was a key member of the France team that won the
World Cup in Russia in 2018, scoring in the final against Croatia.
His positive doping test came as he was trying to put behind
him a difficult first season back at Juve, in which he made just 10 appearances
and was troubled by off-field issues including an investigation into an
extortion attempt against him.
AFP