{"id":3518,"date":"2024-02-29T21:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2024-02-29T21:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:03:41","slug":"pogba-banned-from-football-for-four-years-for-doping-seemingly-ending-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"Pogba &#8216;banned from football for FOUR YEARS for doping&#8217; &#8211; seemingly ending career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has reportedly been handed a four-year ban from football after failing a drugs test last August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 30-year-old tested positive for testosterone after Juventus&#8217;s first game of the season against Udinese, and was given his hefty punishment by an anti-doping prosecutor&#8217;s office in Italy on Thursday, as reported by La Repubblica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pogba&#8217;s lawyers had rejected a plea deal and hoped to get their client a lighter sentence after claiming that he had accidentally ingested the substance that caused the positive test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-838952f82d00cde5017acb4cd0065f0a ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-WzKpUc3-Q?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the prosecution did not believe Pogba&#8217;s defence, and he has now been given a ban that could potentially end his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pogba will turn 31 next month, meaning he would not be able to return to the pitch until he is almost 35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has reportedly been handed a four-year ban from football after failing a drugs test last August. The 30-year-old tested positive for testosterone after Juventus&#8217;s first game of the season against Udinese, and was given his hefty punishment by an anti-doping prosecutor&#8217;s office in Italy on Thursday, as reported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[1175,1174],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-world","tag-four-years","tag-paul-pogba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}