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Is Gambia ready?
Friday, 02 April 2010 23:29
As WAFU starts on April 8The West African Football Union WAFU has announced its first ever championship in decades will start in the Nigerian city of Abeokuta on April 8, with the final taking place on the 18th April. The Gambia is among seven other teams who have agreed to take part in the eight team tourney, comprising two groups of four teams each.
A release from WAFU also explains that the event will take the format of a league in each group, with the team that emerges with the highest point and the one coming second, proceeding to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, the winner of Group A meets the runners up in Group B in the first semis, and then the other way round in the other semis. If it ever takes place, and there is big IF, considering the history of WAFU; this will be the first ever event to be successfully staged by WAFU in decades. The last one played in September 2002 was abandoned following the outbreak of the Ivorian civil war which split the host country into two, trapping Gambia and other teams in a hotel in Boake.
The Gambian team and those of Senegal and Sierra Leone were airlifted to Banjul on President Jammeh's private jet and treated to a shock recovery rest and lunch at the Kairaba before the foreign teams proceeded to their respective homes on the same jet.
As beak from the past teams are allowed to fill a number of professional players in this tourney which is expected to bring some interest and colour to the event. The Gambia is yet to announce its selection to the event which stars in less than week.
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