Uefa has suspended Andre Onana from all competitions for 12 months.
Ajax announced it on its official website: the goalkeeper tested positive for an anti-doping test, which he was subjected to on October 30th, carried out outside sports competitions.
The disqualification, which takes place today, refers to all national and international tournaments.
To reconstruct the story was the same Dutch club with a note on their social networks: it is true that Onana took a prohibited drug, but he did it by mistake by taking it among those prescribed to his wife.
"In the morning of October 30, Onana was not feeling well - Ajax said - and he ingested a pill to relieve the malaise. However, he unwittingly took Lasimac, a drug that had previously been prescribed to his wife. 'Uefa believes that Onana had no intention of cheating. However, Uefa believes, based on the anti-doping rules that an athlete always has the duty to ensure that no prohibited substances enter his body. "
The substance is Furosemide, a diuretic also present in Lasimac.
Ajax announces that it will appeal to Tas, the Sports Arbitration Tribunal.
"We explicitly renounce drugs that improve performance - explained the director of the Amsterdam club, Edwin Van der Sar -. We are for a clean sport. This is a terrible blow, for Andre but certainly also for us as a club. Onana is a high-level goalkeeper, who over the years has proven his worth and is much loved by the fans. We were hoping for a suspended sentence or a much shorter stop than these 12 months, because that drug was not taken for strengthen his body or improve its performance ".
If Ajax's appeal is not accepted, Onana will see its 2021 end early and will return to the field at the beginning of 2022, thus skipping not only the Eredivisie matches, but also those of the Europa League and the African Cup. , competition scheduled between January and February 2022.
