What is next for Paul Pogba?

On September 11 last year, news resounded in Europe that Paul Pogba was threatened with a draconian punishment and a suspension that could practically end his career due to his use of illegal substances.

Unfortunately for him, the Frenchman has been banned from playing football for a maximum of four years! 

As he is already in his 30s, it is hard to believe that a return to elite football is possible when the sanction expires when Paul is already in the second half of his fourth decade. If there were assumptions that he could get away with a lighter sentence of two years, the anti-doping prosecutor’s request was nevertheless granted. 

Even with a minor penalty, the eventual return to the field was questioned, and that currently seems like an impossible mission. 

The Italian media wrote that Pogba was severely affected by his decision with the lawyers to avoid a possible settlement and try to prove his innocence, that is, that he ingested the substance unintentionally. At the same time, there was no appeal to the Court of Sports Arbitration in Lausanne.

After news like this, the first and main impression is that a potentially brilliant career has been wasted. 

Since 2018, when he was one of the key players of France on the way to the world throne, it seemed that he could sew himself the status of a football legend until his late football years. Although he had good seasons at Old Trafford, he was a failure for Manchester United. Then, after returning to the place of success, Juventus, he was limited by a meniscus injury during the 2022/23 competition, and his doping test at the beginning of the next season seems to have finished his career. It turned out he tested positive for synthetic testosterone.

He was tested for doping on August 20, 2023, after the first round of Serie A played away to Udinese. 

It was a game in which the former reinforcement of United, worth 105,000,000 euros, sat on the bench. Meanwhile, Pogba came off the bench against Bologna and Empoli in the second and third rounds, and the 28^th minute at the Carlo Castellani stadium could be remembered as the last in the professional career of one of the greatest talents on the planet.

Pogba played 190 games for Juventus, scoring 34 and setting up 41 goals, and Italy already remembers his long-range beauties against Sampdoria, Torino, Napoli, and Udinese. 

In August 2016, when United paid a nine-figure compensation for him, he threw everyone in ecstasy in England, especially the red part of Manchester, with whom he won two trophies, the League Cup and the Europa League in 2017. 

He made 233 appearances for the Red Devils with 39 goals and 51 assists. He played 91 games for the French national team, and the crowning glory of his career is, without a doubt, the World Cup in Russia and the goal in the final against Croatia (4:2).

Paul Pogba’s football career is probably over after a four-year suspension due to doping, but the Frenchman is preparing for another profession – acting.

The Juventus player will make his debut on the big screen. According to some French media, Pogba has joined the cast of director Fabien Onteniente’s “4 Zeros”, a sequel to the successful 2002 feature film “3 Zeros”. The former French national team player is an educator of young footballers. Local sources highlighted the naturalness and simplicity with which the player participated in the filming.

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