{{short description|Angolan footballer (born 1976)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Yamba Asha | image = | full_name = João Osvaldo Yamba Asha | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1976|7|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Luanda, Angola | height = 1.77 m | position = Left back | currentclub = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1995–1996 | clubs1 = 1º de Maio | years2 = 2000–2006 | clubs2 = AS Aviação | years3 = 2006 | clubs3 = Östers | caps3 = 4 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 2007–2011 | clubs4 = Petro Atlético | years5 = 2012–2013 | clubs5 = AS Aviação | caps5 = 19 | goals5 = 0 | years6 = 2015 | clubs6 = Domant | caps6 = 2 | goals6 = 0 | years7 = 2015–2016 | clubs7 = Rec da Caála | caps7 = 21 | goals7 = 0 | nationalyears1 = 2000–2009 | nationalteam1 = Angola | nationalcaps1 = 77 | nationalgoals1 = 1 }} '''Yamba Asha João''' (born 31 July 1976) is an Angolan retired footballer who played as a defender.
==Career== Asha played for AS Aviação in his homeland and is a member of the Angola national team, collecting 58 caps by the end of 2009.
However, the left-back was excluded from their 2006 FIFA World Cup party, since he was banned by FIFA for nine months for failing a drugs test following a World Cup qualifier against Rwanda in October 2005.<ref>[http://www.cosafa.com/stories/STORY_395.html YAMBA ASHA GETS LONG BAN] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029234213/http://www.cosafa.com/stories/STORY_395.html |date=29 October 2006 }} - COSAFA.com</ref>
He was recalled for an African Nations Cup qualifier against Swaziland in September 2006.
==Career statistics== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+ Appearances and goals by national team and year |- !National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals |- |rowspan="10"|Angola |2000||4||0 |- |2001||10||0 |- |2002||2||0 |- |2003||4||0 |- |2004||10||0 |- |2005||6||0 |- |2006||1||0 |- |2007||6||0 |- |2008||10||1 |- |2009||5||0 |- !colspan="2"|Total!!58!!1 |}
==See also== *List of doping cases in sport
==External links== * {{NFT player|pid=194}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Angola Squad 2008 Africa Cup of Nations}}
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