PAUL POGBA PROVISIONALLY SUSPENDED FOR ANTI-DOPING OFFENSE.

France and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been provisionally suspended from playing football because of an anti-doping offense after Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal Nado said he returned a test with elevated levels of testosterone after Juventus’ 3-0 win at Udinese on 20 August.

30-year-old Pogba was an unused substitute but was selected at random for post-match drug testing and if found guilty of doping, he could face a ban of between two and four years.

Juventus reserves the right to consider the next procedural steps.

Nadi said Pogba had violated anti-doping rules when they found the prohibited substance non-endogenous testosterone metabolites and the results were consistent with the exogenous origin of the target compounds.