{"id":62568,"date":"2025-03-11T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62568"},"modified":"2025-03-11T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:41:33","slug":"pogba-ends-suspension-eyes-return-to-top-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/11\/pogba-ends-suspension-eyes-return-to-top-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogba Ends Suspension, Eyes Return to Top Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>French midfielder Paul Pogba has officially completed his 18-month suspension, paving the way for his return to professional football.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old former Juventus star became a free agent after the Italian club terminated his contract in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Now back in the market, he is reportedly attracting interest from Marseille and Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Pogba was originally hit with a four-year ban on February 29, 2024, for violating anti-doping regulations, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), reduced it to 18 months in October 2024, backdating it to September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>With his suspension ending on March 10, 2025, Pogba is now weighing his next move as he looks to reignite his career in European football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo French midfielder Paul Pogba has officially completed his 18-month suspension, paving the way for his return to professional football. The 31-year-old former Juventus star became a free agent after the Italian club terminated his contract in November 2024. Now back in the market, he is reportedly attracting interest from Marseille and Manchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62568","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62570,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62568\/revisions\/62570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}