Pogba with the River Plate jacket
The French footballer Paul Pogba made the news this Monday because his sentence for positive doping was reduced, which went from four years to 18 months and he will be able to play professionally again in March 2025, at 32 years old. The world champion midfielder with his team in Russia 2018 works to stay in physical shape and be in the best condition for his return, which would not be at Juventus, where he still has a contract until June 2026. That is why today it was also a trend in X (ex Twitter) because they linked him to River Plate.
Pogba was sanctioned in February of this year for ingesting the substance for which he tested positive for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reported that the penalty was reduced and the former Manchester United player will be able to return to the fields. With this novelty and with the hatdag “PogbaARiver” the Frenchman was all the rage on said social network in which photos of Paul appeared with an alternative Juan Fernando Quintero shirt and the images gave rise to all kinds of conjectures.
The Frenchman indicating the number of Juanfer Quintero
The fans of the millionaire team were excited about a hypothetical presence of the French midfielder in the 2025 Club World Cup to be played in the United States, and they did their thing with memes and reactions. For example, user Frabigol posted in French: “What is better for a world champion than revitalizing his career with three other world champions? Cheer up, Pablo. Your best option is to come to River and feel the affection of 90 thousand people every week? Then he showed a screenshot in which Pogba himself would have “liked” the trend on said social network.
The montages of Pogba with the Núñez club house and the photos of the Frenchman with some of David Trezeguet or one prior to the final of the 1996 Intercontinental Cup between River Plate and Juventus, with Enzo Francescoli and Zinedine Zidane, who is He was a confessed admirer of the Uruguayan idol and named his eldest son Enzo.
With the Colombian’s 10 at a training stop
Indeed, Juanfer Quintero had already made a post with the Frenchman in 2017. He then shared part of his vacation in Miami in 2022 together with Pogba. And they not only enjoyed moments of leisure: they also trained together under the tutelage of physical trainer César Murillo. The players were never teammates, but they forged a relationship when they were face to face, wearing different jerseys.
“They told me that they met in Italy. They were not companions, but they did confront each other. And Pogba told Juanfer: ‘you play well, you have to come play with me,’” Murillo told La Página Millonaria. The chemistry of the duo was revealed after a publication by Juanfer on his Instagram account. “With my brother Paul Pogba,” the Colombian wrote, accompanying a snapshot of the two with a casual look.
One of the meeting with Juanfer in Miami in 2022
The news of Pogba’s early return was well received by the coach of the French national team, Didier Deschamps, who indicated: “There is a light that has been turned on again.” In testimonies published on the website of the French Football Federation (FFF), he maintained that “he will have steps to overcome, but it is excellent news, he will be able to play again starting in March.”
Pogba, who has made 91 appearances and scored 11 goals for Les Bleus, hopes to rejoin the national team in 2025, with whom he won the World Cup in 2018. “I spoke to him at length on the phone, as I did during this very period. difficult for him,” Deschamps continued, referring “to the injuries, the personal problems he has faced (including a blackmail case involving one of his brothers), along with this suspension.”
The relationship between the two dates back to 2017. That post Quintero wrote “with my French brother Pogba”
“It is still a strong sanction, although less severe,” Deschamps concluded, adding that Pogba “knows that in March 2025, he will be a player again, and since he loves football and playing so much, it is excellent news for him.”
Pogba is preparing for his return to the playing fields, while Quintero today plays for Racing, which has just qualified for the semifinal of the Copa Sudamericana in which it will face Corinthians of Brazil.
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