Footballer Paul Pogba has been suspended from football for four years following a doping violation.

He was provisionally suspended in September after a drug test revealed high levels of testosterone in his system. The 30 was randomly tested following Juventus' season-opening match on August 20.

Nado verified the failed drug test in a second sample in October, and the anti-doping prosecutor's office sought a four-year suspension.

PHOTO | COURTESY Paul Pogba

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The verdict means Pogba will be unable to play until 2027, when he will be 33 years old, with the ban dating back to the failed test. Pogba feels that if he did consume a prohibited substance, he did it unintentionally.

Nado stated that Pogba had broken the guidelines when forbidden non-endogenous testosterone metabolites were discovered in the test and that the results were "consistent with the exogenous origin of the target compounds."

After the decision, the footballer posted on his page that he was disappointed and believed the verdict was incorrect.

PHOTO | COURTESY Paul Pogba

"I am sad, shocked and heartbroken that everything I have built in my professional playing career has been taken away from me." he posted

"When I am free of legal restrictions, the full story will become clear, but I have never knowingly or deliberately taken any supplements that violate anti-doping regulations," he added.