FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS EXPRESS DISAPPOINTMENT WITH U-20 AND OFFICIALS

When Gambia U-20 lost to Morocco by emphatic 4-0 last Friday in the first league of the CAF U-20 qualifying round campaign, the publisher of this sports blog who also double the sports reporter of Marketplace Business Newspaper  went in to the streets to sound the opinions of football supporters about the poor performance of the team in Morocco.

Baba Saidykhan of Bakau Kachikally expresses his disappointment with both players and officials for their underperformance.  According to him “Gambia need to have a very good structure in place for our football to graduate from this disappointing stage. To be honest, I was not surprise with that the U-20 will lose to their opponent Morocco in Casablanca, because our team was not good enough to play with Morocco who were training together for a long time , not only two week before their  game”.

He continue that “for me in person I was disappointed with the process to the game from the preliminary selection day to the final day of the selection, because I attended almost all their training and show some players who were left out and they a good enough to be part of the team. All that is gone, what they should do now ahead of the returning leg is to put their house in order. It may be very difficult for Gambia to make their way to the nest stage, if only they can turn down the four defecate with a five zero win at home”.

Muhammed Touray of Cape Point for his part shear similar sentiment with Baba Saidykhan adding that the demonstrated no sign of qualifying for 2013 U-20 Africa youth championship to be play in Libya.

The problems affecting our football in all levels are late preparation, lack of test matches, wrong people in the wrong places and biasness of coaches during selections of national teams special in the junior level. If these problems I pointed out are considered and corrected in due time, our football will move from the current limbo. I have no personal grievance against any player or coach, but what is good for the nation is what real concern me”.