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		</div><p>Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been provisionally suspended by Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal after returning an adverse sample.</p>
<p>The France international tested positive for testosterone in a random drugs test following Juventus’ Serie A game against Udinese on August 20th, when he was an unused substitute.</p>
<p>After the Italian anti-doping body issued a statement on Monday evening confirming Pogba’s suspension, Juventus said the club would now consider “the next procedural steps”.</p>
<p>If found guilty of doping, a suspension of between two and four years could be handed out to Pogba.</p>
<p>Juventus Football Club announces that today, September 11, 2023, the footballer Paul Labile Pogba received a precautionary suspension order from the National Anti-Doping Tribunal following the results of tests carried out on August 20, 2023,” a statement from the Serie A side read.</p>
<p>“The club reserves the right to consider the next procedural steps.”</p>
<p>Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal confirmed Pogba’s positive sample for testosterone.</p>
<p>A statement from the anti-doping body read: “The National Antidoping Tribunal informs that, in acceptance of the instance proposed by the National Antidoping Prosecutor, it has provided for the provisional suspension of the athlete: Paul Labile Pogba (FIGC) for the violation of articles 2.1, 2.2; prohibited substance detected: Non-endogenous testosterone metabolites (The GC/c/IRMS results are consistent with the exogenous origin of the target compounds).”</p>
<p>Earlier on Monday, former Manchester United midfielder Pogba said he was almost driven to walk away from football after allegedly being blackmailed by an organised crime gang.</p>
<p>The 30-year-old’s brother Mathias was detained in September 2022 on suspicion of involvement in the alleged plot, which Paul Pogba claimed amounted to a bid to extort £11.1million from him.</p>
<p>Mathias Pogba was released in December and denies the charges.</p>
<figure id="attachment_180387" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-180387" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FAE23154-2995-4419-9EC3-D6827DDA6EF4.webp" alt="" width="640" height="431" class="size-full wp-image-180387" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-180387" class="wp-caption-text">Paul Pogba left Manchester United in order to rejoin Juventus in 2022. Photo: Martin Ricketts</figcaption></figure>
<p>Paul Pogba reported the incident to Turin prosecutors in July of last year, shortly after leaving Manchester United on a free transfer in order to rejoin Juventus.</p>
<p>Speaking to Al Jazeera, Paul Pogba said: “When there is money you have to be careful. Money changes people. It can break up a family. It can create a war.</p>
<p>“Sometimes I was just by myself thinking: ‘I don’t want to have money anymore. I just don’t want to play anymore. I just want to be with normal people, so they will love me for me – not for the fame, not for the money.’</p>
<p>“Sometimes it’s tough. This life, you have to go through it. It will only make me stronger.”</p>
<p>Laure Beccuau, a Paris prosecutor, said the investigation was looking into allegations of “blackmail by an armed gang, kidnapping and membership of a criminal conspiracy”.</p>
<p>Mathias Pogba is himself a professional footballer, with the 33-year-old having represented Crewe, Crawley, Wrexham and Partick Thistle, as well as the national team of Guinea.</p>
<p>He is currently without a club after leaving French lower-league side Belfort in 2022.</p>
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