Ajax goalkeeper Andre Onana ban for a year because of this..

Ajax young talent goalkeeper Andre Onana is banned from football for a year after failing a drugs test last October. 

UEFA’s disciplinary body has suspended Onana for one-year over doping, the Dutch club confirmed on Friday. 

Ajax on a statement: "On the morning of October 30, Onana was feeling unwell. He wanted to take a pill to ease the discomfort. 

"Unknowingly, however, he took Lasimac, a drug that his wife had previously been prescribed."  

"Onana’s confusion resulted in him mistakenly taking his wife’s medicine, ultimately causing this measure to be taken by UEFA against the goalkeeper."

Onana did not have any intention of cheating but added that: "the European Football Association believes, on the basis of the applicable anti-doping rules, that an athlete has a duty at all times to ensure that no banned substances enter the body."

Ajax and the player will be pushing for a reversal at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), the statement further noted. 

"We explicitly renounce performance-enhancing drugs, we obviously stand for a clean sport. 

"This is a terrible setback, for Andre himself but certainly also for us as a club,” the team’s Managing Director, Edwin van der Sar added. 

"Andre is a top goalkeeper, who has proven his worth for Ajax for years and is very popular with the fans. 

"We had hoped for a conditional suspension or for a suspension much shorter than these twelve months, because it was arguably not intended to strengthen his body and thus improve his performance."