Nuno Assis

Nuno Assis Lopes de Almeida ( born November 25, 1977 in Lousã ) is a Portuguese footballer who stands at Omonia Nicosia under contract.

The attacking midfielder started his career in the youth department of the SC Lourinhanense. 1999 signed him the FC Alverca; only a year later he moved to Gil Vicente FC. 2001 Assis went to Vitória Guimarães, where he played until January 2005. Benfica became aware of the now 27 -year-olds and pulled him even during the season in the capital. With Benfica Assis played in the 2005/06 season in the UEFA Champions League. For the 2008/2009 season Assis returned to Vitória Guimarães and there wrote a contract with a term of three years. End of June 2010, the change at the Al Ittihad in Saudi Arabia, it was announced that he was for the first time in their history in a club outside Portugal. Already in the following year, he moved back to Portugal Vitória Guimarães. But even there it did not keep him long, for the following season he signed for Omonia Nicosia. In the first year he won the Cypriot Super Cup with the club.

His first assignment in the Portuguese national team was a Substitutes in a friendly against Scotland in November 2002., After more than six years of absence he was appointed to the team again in 2009 and played among other things in the World Cup qualifiers against Malta.

On 3 December 2005, Assis had to undergo for a championship game a doping control; A and B samples were positive. In Assis ' sample norandrosterone was found standing on the Prohibited List of FIFA and UEFA. Assis was early February 2006, initially blocked by the Portuguese Football Federation and from February 17, 2006 by UEFA for all competitions until August 2006.

Assis affirms that he was innocent and had not taken any banned substances. The club doctor Benfica wanted to demonstrate that the norandrosterone have formed naturally.