WHAT NEXT FOR U-20 IN THE RETURNING LEG? AFTER HEAVE DEFEAT IN MOROCCO

The Gambia U-20 who recently suffered from a heavy 4-0 defeat in the hands of their North African power house in Casablanca, Morocco in the first leg of the Africa U-20 youth championship qualifier. What is next for the team as they will host their opponent in Banjul in fourth night time at the Independence Stadium?

Musa Fatty the author and publisher of this sports news blog

The team embarrassedly arrived in Banjul on over the weekend with officials with no sign of Gambia qualifying for U-20 in the African youth championship to be held in Libya in 2013. The young Scorpions need to turn down the result by comfortable securing five or six goals to zero in Banjul in other to pave their way through to the next stage of the qualifying campaign.

 The 4-0 win over the Gambia U-20 has registered the second heavy defeat for the country’s football record in all the categories in the over sixteen years in both qualifying rounds and in the competition proper. It means the FA and the Ministry should put in place a possible ways and means to overcome Morocco.

The head coach and his assistant Lamin Sarr and Alagie Sarr together with his technical staff from the Gambia Football Association selected their nineteen man squared those empress them, but unfortunately they may not be the ones that empresses every Gambian hence they fail to produce any positive result for the nation.

The selection of this team since the preliminary stage has be described by many football lovers in the county as unfair and biasness, that selection was base on whom you know and what some one can do.  The officials of our country’s football structures should stop biasness and personal grievance against certain teams or team players from that community during selection and put national interest first before personal interest on the expense of the nation.

Many talented players were sideline by the selection committee during the final selection day and the most affected ones were the players in the teams of Bakau’s Steve Biko FC and Bakau United, the only registered Bakau born player was the former U-17 player Pateh Nyang.

Meanwhile, there is a growing ramous that the defeated U-20 are planning to boycott the returning leg against Morocco in fourth nights time if the GFA Normalization Committee still remains in office and their match allowances still remain  unpaid.

This said normalization committee are yet to secure any single victory since coming in to office to replace the former executive headed by Seedy  M.B Kinteh, whose tenure of office has registered tremendous success in Gambia football in all the categories of our football.