{"id":464981,"date":"2023-10-06T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464981"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:49:11","slug":"pogba-facing-lengthy-ban-after-2nd-sample-confirms-positive-drug-test","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pogba-facing-lengthy-ban-after-2nd-sample-confirms-positive-drug-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogba facing lengthy ban after 2nd sample confirms positive drug test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pogba is facing a 4-year suspension and a cancellation of his Juventus deal after 2<sup>nd<\/sup> analysis confirmed his positive drug test.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Paul Pogba has tested doping positive also to backup sample today.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Juventus will now decide how to proceed with his contract as Pogba faces risk of long-term ban. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SzLedWaTey\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SzLedWaTey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1710274757847822640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Old Lady provisionally suspended Pogba last month after returning from a doping test with unusually high levels of testosterone following a league win vs. Udinese in August.<\/p>\n<p>However, the footballer requested that the sample be analyzed for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time as he expected to be an error and to be able to play again.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s not the result that Pogba has hoped for as his B sample also confirmed that he used a forbidden drug, and now the Serie A side that owns his rights will consider how to resolve the unpleasant situation for both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Most likely, Juventus will try to cancel the French contract after the player would probably gets a multi-year suspension from football activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pogba is facing a 4-year suspension and a cancellation of his Juventus deal after 2nd analysis confirmed his positive drug test. \ud83d\udea8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":464982,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16965,18087,17860],"news_category":[138,14235],"gn_keywords":[17976,18182,17861],"acf":{"announce":"Paul could be out of the pitch for a long period of time.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464989,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464981\/revisions\/464989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464981"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464981"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}