Yamba Asha
Yamba Asha (born July 31, 1976 in Luanda ) is an Angolan football player . The defender was an Angolan international .
He played for AS Aviação from 2000 to 2006 , with whom he became Angolan champions in 2002, 2003 and 2004 . He also won the Angolan Cup with the club in 2005 and the Angolan Supercup in 2003, 2004 and 2005 . In 2006 he was under contract with Östers IF in Sweden. In 2007 he returned to Angola to join Petro Atlético . With Petro Atlético he became Angolan champions in 2008 and 2009. In 2012 he moved back to AS Aviação.
He was appointed to the Angolan national team for the first time in 2000. In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , he was the only Angolan player to play all twelve games. In the last qualifying game against Rwanda in October 2005, however, his doping test was positive. He was banned by FIFA for nine months, so he missed both the 2006 African Cup in Egypt and the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the first World Cup for which Angola had ever qualified. By 2009, he played a total of 66 international matches and scored one goal.
Web links
- Yamba Asha in the database of weltfussball.de
- Profile on national-football-teams.com
- Profile on soccerway.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ YAMBA ASHA GETS LONG BAN cosafa.com January 24, 2006 ( Memento of October 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Asha, Yamba |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Angolan soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luanda |