Paul Pogba handed new date to return to football as doping ban significantly reduced

The Juventus midfielder, formerly the world's astir costly subordinate erstwhile joining Manchester United for £89million and a World Cup victor with France, has ever maintained helium had inadvertently taken DHEA

Paul Pogba volition beryllium backmost successful enactment successful March 2025 - aft the Court of Arbitration for Sport slashed his drugs ban.

The erstwhile Manchester United star, presently connected the books of Juventus, had been looking astatine the extremity of his vocation if CAS upheld the four-year suspension that was dished retired successful February.

Pogba was provisionally suspended past September aft failing a drugs test. He had tested affirmative for DHEA pursuing Juventus' gathering with Udinese past August. DHEA is simply a banned substance that boosts endogenous testosterone. A secondary illustration besides returned a affirmative result.

Pogba and his campy person ever maintained that the taking of immoderate prohibited substance was ne'er intentional. His lawyers had rejected a plea woody aft claiming helium had unwittingly ingested the cause via a supplement, frankincense causing the affirmative test.

Speaking astatine the clip of the archetypal suspension, Pogba's agent, Rafaela Pimenta, said: "What is definite is that Paul Pogba ne'er wanted to interruption a rule."

Pogba confirmed helium would entreaty the determination astatine the CAS, adding helium would archer his afloat communicative "when I americium escaped of ineligible restrictions".

Now successful their last judgment, arsenic archetypal reported by the Daily Mail, the CAS person confirmed that Pogba did inadvertently instrumentality DHEA - connected WADA's banned list.

A four-year anti-doping prohibition tin beryllium reduced successful cases wherever an jock tin beryllium it was not intentional, was the effect of contamination, oregon if they tin supply "substantial assistance" to assistance investigators.

As such, his punishment has been greatly reduced, with Pogba's four-year prohibition reduced to 18 months. That means helium volition beryllium capable to instrumentality to nonrecreational enactment successful March. The 31-year-old, it's understood, volition beryllium allowed to instrumentality to grooming successful January.

The CAS person been contacted for comment.

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