The Gambia Football Federation ( GFF ) is winding up round the clock in search of a new technician for the Senior National Team. This came to the fore after the former Head Coach Sang Ndong ended his contract with the Scorpions but been elevated as Technical Director for the GFF and since then has been concerned for the search of a new Scorpions gaffer.
The Gambia will resume its AfCON Qualifier Cameroon 2019 with a game to Algeria at home in September and thus a Head Coach is imminent for the Senior National Team. The Gambia hosted the Central African Republic in March at a friendly international where the Scorpions drew the Wild Beast one all. It was the second time in a year that the two national sides face off each other. The Gambia beat the CAR one nil in Rabat 2017 at a training camp where the Scorpions engaged to hone their skills under then Coach Sang Ndong.
Assistant Coaches Omar Ceesay and Matarr Mboge been designated to their various Junior teams have been engaged over the period. Matarr is in charge of the U-20 and has won the WAFU Championship for the Gambia hosted in Liberia in April before been edged out by Benin in the Africa U-20 Qualifiers. National U-23/Olympic Coach Omar Ceesay also engaged his charges in a friendly international at home to Morocco in May where the Gambia drew goal less on the first day and eventually won one nil on the second outing courtesy of Musa Barrow.
GFF Technical Director Sang Ndong hinted that a Head Coach will be in place before the Scorpions resume business in September. He said as the Gambia takes part in active Qualifiers, the search for a Head Coach is on the cards for the GFF in consultation with its relevant partners.
Meanwhile, the Gambia is bracing up for the forth coming WAFU Zone A U-17 Tournament Senegal 2018 where it will present the Baby Scorpions for the tourney. The tournament would be staged in Dakar and Mbour and would be competed by eight nations which according to CAF would also be used as Qualifiers for the Africa U-17 Tournament in Tanzania, 2019. Head Coach Abdoulie Bojang has returned home after his successful coaching studies in Hungary and had no sooner put up a provisional squad of Sixty players for screening. The players scouted from the domestic front would be trimmed down and thus a one month intensive training be carried out for the final list of players.
