Paris. The suspension for doping of French footballer Paul Pogba has been reduced to 18 months from the initial four years, as reported this Friday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
“The suspension is now 18 months, starting September 11, 2023,” he told Reuters the general director of the CAS, Matthieu Reeb.
The French international was provisionally suspended by Italy’s national anti-doping organization (NADO Italia) in September 2023 after testing positive for DHEA, a banned substance that increases testosterone levels. He will be able to play again in March of next year.
Pogba, 31, who has a contract with Italian club Juventus until June 2026, denied any wrongdoing and said in February that he would appeal to the CAS.
The doping test was carried out after the 3-0 victory of the Juve in the season opener in Serie A against Udinese on August 20, 2023.
The court said it had detected banned “non-endogenous testosterone metabolites”, adding that the results were “consistent with the exogenous (external) origin of the target compounds”.
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