Pogba's career in danger after receiving four years ban

Paul Pogba

The four-year ban imposed on Paul Pogba - a 2018 World Cup winner with France and once the most expensive player in history - in a doping case that could end his career has shocked the football world.

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It was also entirely in line with bans in similar recent cases in soccer, including two cases prosecuted by FIFA from qualifying games for the 2022 World Cup and a UEFA case detailed on Friday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Four years has been routine since 2015 when the world anti-doping code was updated.

Pogba will be the latest case going to appeal at CAS, to challenge his ban imposed on Thursday by an Italian sports tribunal for a positive test for DHEA, a steroid precursor.

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