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Gambia U-17 In Do Or Die Game Tomorrow

Our Darling U-17 scorpions are entangled in a do or diematch on Saturday 22ndat the Independencestadium with Ghana U-17 in the second leg of the CAF U-17 Youths ChampionshipQualifiers. The baby Scorpions lost to Ghana U-17 by 3-1 in the firstleg a fortnight ago. Playing at their home ground our boys need to score twogoals to advance to the tournament proper in Algiersin 2009. Speaking to Pointsports,the Assistant Coach of the U-17, Mr. Lamin Sambou, said, “we need support fromthe Gambians on...

Knee scan cheers Mustapha Carayol

Torquay United's injured winger Mustapha Carayol is hoping to be back in action for his side in time for next Tuesday night's Blue Square Premier home game against struggling Lewes. In-form Carayol, who passed up the chance to star for the Gambia Under 20 team in the qualifiers for the 2009 Rwanda Under 20 finals, was not with the Torquay United squad for last Saturday’s 2-1 win against York City. And there was concern that the 19-year-old pace forward could be sidelined for some time because...

Gambia U17 to Take on Ghana U17 in CAF Qualifiers On Sunday

The Gambia National U 17 team will lock horns with Ghana U17team in the first leg of the final round of the 2009 CAF U17 youth championshipqualifiers this Sunday the 9thofNovember 2008 in Accra.The Gambia U 17 team are the hope of Gambians in allcompetitions after the recent elimination the senior national team from the2010 World and African Cup of Nations qualifiers. The Ghana U 20 team also eliminated the U 20 team lastmonth. Speaking to Pointsports,the Head Coach of The Gambia National U 17...

Ghana prepare for Gambia clash

The Ghana Under-17 team, known as Black Starlets have started training since October 1, in preparations towards the final round qualifiers of the 8th African Under-17 Championship in Algeria next year. The Starlets are scheduled to play their Gambian counterparts in the first leg of the qualifiers on November 9, in Accra, with the second leg fixed for November 23, in Banjul. Head coach Emmanuel Akwesi Afranie has therefore extended invitation to 30 players for camping at the Ghanaman Soccer...

GFA SG Comments on GFA Protest Letter to CAF and Others

The Secretary General of The Gambia Football Association, Jammeh EK Bojang, has spoken to Pointsports about the protest letter which the GFA has sent to CAF. The letter relates to the “damaging regulation” which caused The Gambia’s exit from the World and African Cup of nations qualifiers. The GFA SG wrote to show their dissatisfaction at the regulation as a bad rule. “After spending Millions of Dalasi’s to go to Liberia, all that spending comes to be zero. After scoring 9 points you have to...

2010 qualifiers, Gambia took 9th position. 18-10-2008

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your widely read newspaper to thank The Gambia football team and its officers for their effort in the just ended football tournament in Africa. The Gambia took 9th position on the just ended African and World cup qualifiers, and runners-up in group 6. The Gambia and Uganda were best losers of the group stages, Guinea Conakry took 8th position best loser at the expense of Gambia’s effort to end Senegal’s dream. Indeed Cameroon, Guinea, Benin, Kenya, Nigeria,...

How comes?

Editor, Greetings and best wishes to you all at the Daily Observer. It has been a few days since The Gambia played against Senegal, which ended in a one all draw, earning The Gambia nine points. After the match, I browsed through the F.I.F.A website and took a closer look at the table of qualifiers, and, to my surprise, The Gambia had been ruled out, leaving Mozambique, with eight points, and Sudan, to join the next round of qualifiers. I therefore would like to know how this draw was made for...

An explanation needed from Fifa and CAF

Editor, I am a Gambian, and I will like an explanation on the final chosen team for the CAN and WC qualifiers. The Gambia finished a point better than Mozambique on their group. How could they have qualified before the Gambia? This is really confusing for me. Please, let me know how it was evaluated. We all expected a draw was enough, and now the news is that this is not the case.

Gambia Out Of World and African Cup Qualifiers

Despite a brilliant performance against Senegallast Saturday in Dakar,The Gambia’s hope of reaching the next stage of the World Cup/Nations Cupqualifiers was dashed when they drew 1-1.Ordinarily, the draw should have been enough for The Gambiato qualify for the second round of both tournaments, but the new CAF rulesaborted The Gambia’s dream. The game kicked off at 4pmat the Leopold Sedat Senghore Stadium. Barely two minutes into the game,Gambian striker Ngogu Demba got a chance after a poor...

Ghana Eliminates Gambia U20 in African Youth Championship

The Gambia U-20 Scorpion team were last Sunday eliminated by Ghana’s U-20 team in the African Youth Championship qualifiers after a 1-0 defeat at the Independence Stadium in Bakau on Sunday. It could be recalled that during the first leg in Accra, Ghana won by 2-1. All what the darling Scorpions needed was to win the match but during the first half of the match Gambian strikers missed lot of golden opportunities. Several attempts were made to win the game but the Ghanaian players prevented them...