Adama Tamba
{{Short description|Gambian footballer (born 1998)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Adama Tamba
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1998|8|29|df=y}}{{Soccerway|267880}}
| birth_place = Banjul, The Gambia
| position = Forward{{Cite web|url=https://www.statsfootofeminin.fr/joueur.php?joueur=13649|website=Footofeminin.fr|title=Adama Tamba|language=fr-fr|accessdate=24 October 2024}}
| currentclub = Rodez
| clubnumber = 9
| years1 = 2009–2022
| clubs1 = {{Interlanguage link|Red Scorpions FC|lt=Red Scorpions|de|Red Scorpions FC}}
| caps1 = 35
| goals1 = 83
|years2 = 2017-2018
|clubs2 = Supersport Academy
|caps2 = 12
|goals2 = 20
| years3 = 2021–2022
| clubs3 = → Grenoble (loan)
| caps3 = 7
| goals3 = 1
| years4 = 2022–2024
| clubs4 = Cannes
| caps4 = 21
| goals4 = 19
| years5 = 2024–
| clubs5 = Rodez
| caps5 = 15
| goals5 = 5
| nationalyears1 = 2012
| nationalteam1 = Gambia U17
| nationalyears2 = 2015–
| nationalteam2 = Gambia
| nationalcaps2 = 1
| nationalgoals2 = 2
| pcupdate = 11 May 2025
| nationalteam-update =
}}
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.
Early life
Adama and her sister {{Interlanguage link|Awa Tamba|lt=Awa|de|Awa Tamba}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2 May 2020|title=Tamba twins brightening the Scorpions corner|url=https://www.cafonline.com/news-center/news/tamba-twins-brightening-the-scorpions-corner|url-status=live|access-date=24 October 2021|publisher=Confederation of African Football|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508053735/https://www.cafonline.com/news-center/news/tamba-twins-brightening-the-scorpions-corner |archive-date=2020-05-08 }} Adama began playing football with her male counterparts in primary and high school.
Club career
In the 2016–17 season, Tamba scored fifty goals in eleven games in the second division,{{Cite web|last=Bah|first=Sulayman|date=16 January 2018|title=PSG Trialist Tamba 4-goal shy of matching top scorer Darboe|url=https://foroyaa.net/psg-trialist-tamba-4-goal-shy-of-matching-top-scorer-darboe/|url-status=live|access-date=25 October 2021|website=Foroyaa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024182136/https://foroyaa.net/psg-trialist-tamba-4-goal-shy-of-matching-top-scorer-darboe/ |archive-date=2021-10-24 }} helping {{Interlanguage link|Red Scorpions FC|lt=Red Scorpions|de|Red Scorpions FC}} return to the first tier of women's football in the Gambia.{{Cite web|last=Jallow Falloboweh|first=Buba|date=5 May 2017|title=Gambia: Sports News: Adama Tamba; the state of Gambian women's football hasn't changed|url=https://www.freedomnewspaper.com/2017/05/05/gambia-sports-news-adama-tamba-the-state-of-gambian-womens-football-hasnt-changed/|url-status=usurped|access-date=24 October 2021|website=Freedom Newspaper|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024182135/https://www.freedomnewspaper.com/2017/05/05/gambia-sports-news-adama-tamba-the-state-of-gambian-womens-football-hasnt-changed/ |archive-date=2021-10-24 }} 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. 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". Her knack for scoring earned her trials with French clubs Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon in 2018.
In September 2021, Tamba signed for Division 2 Féminine club Grenoble on a one-year loan.{{Cite web|date=2 September 2021|title=Adama Tamba secures loan deal with Grenoble|url=https://www.gambia.com/adama-tamba-secures-loan-deal-with-grenoble-2/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320131527/https://www.gambia.com/adama-tamba-secures-loan-deal-with-grenoble-2/|archive-date=20 March 2024|url-status=dead|access-date=24 October 2021|website=Gambia.com}} In the 2022–23 season, she joined Régional 1 Féminine club Cannes.{{Cite web |date=28 January 2023 |title=" Pourquoi pas un petit tour de plus ! " |url=https://www.fff.fr/article/9381--pourquoi-pas-un-petit-tour-de-plus-.html |access-date=23 June 2023 |publisher=French Football Federation |language=Fr}}
International career
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. Tamba played in all three of her nation's matches at the tournament, all of which ended in defeat.
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.{{Cite web|last=Jarju|first=Omar|date=2 March 2020|title=Striker Adama Tamba Nets Four As Gambia Makes Triumphant Comeback|url=https://www.chronicle.gm/striker-adama-tamba-nets-four-as-gambia-makes-triumphant-comeback/|url-status=live|access-date=25 October 2021|website=The Chronicle|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229054603/https://www.chronicle.gm/striker-adama-tamba-nets-four-as-gambia-makes-triumphant-comeback/ |archive-date=2020-02-29 }} The Gambia would go on to suffer elimination in the group stage of the competition.{{Cite web|last=Jarju|first=Omar|date=3 March 2020|title=WAFU ZONE A: Gambia Falls To Liberia, Failed To Qualify To the Semis|url=https://www.chronicle.gm/wafu-zone-a-gambia-fall-to-liberia-failed-to-qualify-to-the-semis/|url-status=live|access-date=25 October 2021|website=The Chronicle|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303043427/https://www.chronicle.gm/wafu-zone-a-gambia-fall-to-liberia-failed-to-qualify-to-the-semis/ |archive-date=2020-03-03 }} As of May 2020, Tamba had eighteen goals in twelve matches for the Scorpions. {{Interlanguage link|Mariama Sowe|lt=Mariama Sowe|de|Mariama Sowe (Fußballtrainerin)}}, coach of the Scorpions, stated that Adama scored in "almost every game", while her sister Awa would "assist most of her goals".
Honours
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.gf38.fr/effectif/adama-tamba/ Grenoble Foot 38 profile]
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Category:Footballers from Banjul
Category:Gambian women's footballers
Category:21st-century Gambian people
Category:Women's association football forwards
Category:Grenoble Foot 38 (women) players
Category:Seconde Ligue players
Category:The Gambia women's international footballers
Category:Gambian expatriate women's footballers