Juventus statement after Pogba provisionally suspended for failed doping test

Juventus launched an announcement after Paul Pogba was provisionally suspended for failing a Serie A anti-doping check, confirming it can ‘take into account the subsequent procedural steps.’

The midfielder confirmed elevated ranges of testosterone in his blood check after the 3-0 win away to Udinese on August 20.

Pogba didn’t take part in that match, sitting on the bench all through, however was a type of randomly chosen to bear the doping check.

After preliminary stories from information company ANSA this afternoon, the anti-doping tribunal formally confirmed that Pogba was provisionally suspended after failing an preliminary doping check.

“Juventus Soccer Membership pronounces that right now, September 11, 2023, the footballer Paul Labile Pogba obtained a precautionary suspension order from the Nationwide Anti-Doping Tribunal following the outcomes of assessments carried out on August 20, 2023. 

“The membership reserves the appropriate to think about the subsequent procedural steps.”

The B Pattern will now be analysed to substantiate the optimistic outcome after which Pogba will both settle for wrongdoing or attempt to show any performance-enhancing substances have been taken unknowingly or with unintended contamination.

Even when he’s cleared of deliberately taking performance-enhancing substances, this can be a prolonged course of, as Atalanta defender Jose Luis Palomino was banned for nearly 4 months earlier than finally being discovered not responsible of taking Clostebol.