Paul Pogba, a midfielder for Juventus, has been subject to a potential four-year suspension by Italian anti-doping prosecutors following his adverse testosterone test.
Pogba declined to enter into a plea agreement with Italy’s anti-doping organization, therefore the matter will go before the anti-doping court there. Pogba’s career might end after a four-year ban at the age of thirty.
According to the World Anti-Doping Code, athletes are usually banned for four years, although their sentences can be shortened if they can show that their doping was accidental, if contamination caused the positive test, or if they offer’substantial assistance’ to investigators.
Following an examination conducted following Juventus’ match in Udinese on August 20 of this year, Pogba’s positive test result was made public in September. The France international sat on Juventus’ bench during the Serie A game, but he did not participate.
The midfield player requested a counteranalysis of the results of his positive drug test, but that analysis also came up positive.
It turned out that the chemical found in both of the specimens was the hormone DHEA, which aids in the body’s production of other hormones like hormone.
