Paul Pogba's comeback is becoming clearer. And as has been scheduled for several weeks, it was in Monaco that the tricolor world champion is preparing to take over the thread of his career after almost two years far from the field due to positive control at the dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), a synthetic hormone in September 2023.
And if the former Le Havre finally saw his suspension reduced to 18 months by the Arbitral Tribunal of Sport, he had initially received four years, which was more or less the end of his career. Questioned in front of the cameras from seven to eight, the native of Lagny-sur-Marne told the ordeal lived in the past two years.
“I don't understand anything. It was very hard. It was something that I was removed when I was not ready. The sentence and the way … it was a shock. Four years at a time for doping, without explanation and without being listened to ”he entrusted to the announcement of his suspension.
Paul Pogba forced to leave Italy
“I also had to leave Italy because my children were right next to the training center, he continued. I was going to accompany them and I spent every day in front of the stadium. I couldn't do that anymore. I couldn't train. It was too hard for me. Do not play football, accompany my children, pass in front of the stadium … My children ask me: 'Dad, when are you going to play? When can we go to the stadium? ' I was telling them soon when I knew it was going to be complicated. »»
And this period was all the more complicated for the French midfielder since Juventus Turin was not very great support, the old lady refusing to make her available “A physical trainer” or to provide him “Care”. “I was not allowed to. They weren't too much with me. Feel it, it put me on a blow. I didn't understand why. I told myself that I was at war with anti-doping but not with Juve ”, he said again.
