Paul Pogba hit with four-year ban from football after positive drugs test

• Juve midfielder tested positive for testosterone in August
• Pogba will lodge appeal with court of arbitration for sport

The France and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been handed a four-year ban from football for a doping offence.

Pogba was provisionally suspended by Italy’s national anti-doping body, Nado Italia, at a tribunal in September last year. The 30-year-old tested positive for testosterone – a banned substance – after Juve’s 3-0 league win at Udinese on 20 August, with a B sample confirming the positive result in October.

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