The coach of Juventus de Turin, Massimiliano Allegrisaid Saturday that football had lost “an exceptional player” to the four-year suspension of Paul Pogba for doping. “From a human point of view, it saddens me a lot, and especially from a football point of view, football is losing an extraordinary player,” Allegri said at the press conference on the eve of the match against Napoli.
“I had the opportunity to work with him, to coach him, players like him, it’s really hard to find (…). Paul is a fantastic boy,” he added, specifying that he had sent him a message on Thursday when announced by Italian anti-doping court imposed a four-year ban on the world champion in 2018. However, Allegri did not want to go back under the matter of Pogba, because “there is a process underway,” he recalled.
The coach of the French team, Didier Deschamps, reacted on Thursday to the suspension of the Juventus player by saying that he “cannot imagine that Paul has the intention, the desire, to take drugs.”
Shortly after the punishment by the Italian anti-doping authorities, he announced that he wanted to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), although he reiterated that he had “never consumed, knowingly or intentionally ,” doping products. Pogba, 30, tested positive for testosterone in August 2023 on the first day of the Italian Championship, although he did not participate in this match.
Source: La Verdad
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