Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | [1] | 29 August 1998||
Place of birth | Banjul, The Gambia [2] | ||
Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward [3] | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Rodez | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–2022 | Red Scorpions | ||
2021–2022 | → Grenoble (loan) | 7 | (1) |
2022–2024 | Cannes | 21 | (19) |
2024– | Rodez | 4 | (2) |
International career | |||
2012 | Gambia U17 | ||
2015– | Gambia | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 October 2024 |
Adama Tamba (born 29 August 1998) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Seconde Ligue club Rodez and the Gambia national team.[ citation needed ]
Adama and her sister Awa were born in Banjul, and grew up at the SOS Children's Village in Bakoteh, outside of Banjul. The sisters lost their mother at a young age, while their father, a farmer, lived in the hinterlands of the Gambia. [2] Adama began playing football with her male counterparts in primary and high school. [2]
In the 2016–17 season, Tamba scored fifty goals in eleven games in the second division, [4] helping Red Scorpions return to the first tier of women's football in the Gambia. [5] In the 2017–18 season, she scored fifty-one goals in ten games to help Red Scorpions move out of the relegation zone in the first division. [2] As of May 2020, she had 165 goals in 114 league games to her name. Tamba has stated that she is "addicted to scoring goals". [2] Her knack for scoring earned her trials with French clubs Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon in 2018. [2] [4]
In September 2021, Tamba signed for Division 2 Féminine club Grenoble on a one-year loan. [6] In the 2022–23 season, she joined Régional 1 Féminine club Cannes. [7]
Tamba made her debut for the Gambia U17 national team in a FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup qualifier against Sierra Leone in 2012. She would help the Gambia eventually qualify for the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Azerbaijan. [2] Tamba played in all three of her nation's matches at the tournament, all of which ended in defeat. [1]
In March 2020, Tamba scored four goals for the Gambia national team in a 5–2 win over Guinea-Bissau in the WAFU Zone A Women's Cup. [8] The Gambia would go on to suffer elimination in the group stage of the competition. [9] As of May 2020, Tamba had eighteen goals in twelve matches for the Scorpions. [2] Mariama Sowe , coach of the Scorpions, stated that Adama scored in "almost every game", while her sister Awa would "assist most of her goals". [2]
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