By Le Figaro
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Bad times for Paul Pogba… Andrea Staccioli / Insidefoto / PANORAMIC
According to Italian sources, the Juventus international tricolor tested positive after a match against Udinese on August 20, in the Italian Serie A.
“I had a difficult year, so I have this rage, this desire to play football and enjoy it until the end of my career. It’s like I’m 18 again», says Paul Pogba, in an interview broadcast this Monday by the Qatari channel Al Jazeera. A year marked by injuries and this extortion attempt in which one of his brothers, Mathias, was involved. “Many think that I am done for, dead, that Pogba no longer exists», added the 30-year-old world champion, ensuring that he was not “weak“.
He will once again have the opportunity to show his strength of character with this new test: according to the Corriere Della Sera traces of testosterone were discovered after a doping control carried out after Udinese-Juventus (0-3), on August 20, during the first day of the Italian championship. A match in which the former Manchester United player did not play. Victim of several physical glitches in recent years, the tricolor international (91 caps, 11 goals) comes out of an almost white season (10 matches) in 2022-23, for his return to Turin. After the match against Udine, Pogba played 24 minutes against Bologna (1-1) and 28 against Empoli (2-0), getting injured again. “The examinations carried out showed a slight muscular overload in the right thigh.“, indicated Juve.
We are still waiting for the reaction of the person concerned and of Juventus. According to our information, the press release from the Piedmontese club is being prepared and validated at the time of writing these lines.
More information to follow…