{"id":40631,"date":"2024-07-26T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=40631"},"modified":"2024-07-26T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:17:54","slug":"paul-pogba-breaks-silence-on-doping-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/26\/paul-pogba-breaks-silence-on-doping-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Pogba Breaks Silence On Doping Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba says it has not been easy coping with life after he was banned for doping, <strong>Abuja City Journal <\/strong>reports.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the 31-year-old French international has been sidelined since September 2023 after failing a doping test, resulting in a suspension from both his club and professional football.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Forbes, Pogba opened up about his struggles with a four-year doping ban and his determination to stay fit while awaiting his appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to be honest. Football has been part of my life for as long as I can remember.<br \/>\n\u201cHowever, I have my family, my faith, my friends, and my fans who have supported me, which makes things easier. All will be well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a playing return, Pogba added: \u201cAlthough I can\u2019t speak so much about this, all roads lead to the appeal date.<br \/>\n\u201cUntil then, my focus is on staying fit and looking forward to the appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba says it has not been easy coping with life after he was banned for doping, Abuja City Journal reports. Recall that the 31-year-old French international has been sidelined since September 2023 after failing a doping test, resulting in a suspension from both his club and professional football. In an interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":40632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1270,1269],"class_list":["post-40631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-doping","tag-pogba"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40633,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631\/revisions\/40633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}