The Third Vice President of The Gambia Football Federation (GFF) Rtd. General Langtombong Tamba has told participants at the ongoing national football jamboree that the future of Gambian football lies in them.
General Tamba, who is the Head of Grassroots Football at Football House, was addressing boys and girls aged between 12 and 15 selected from various schools within the Greater Banjul, who are currently participating at the ongoing national football jamboree at the National Technical Training Centre at Old Yundum on Saturday morning.
“I congratulate you for your selection into the programme. Many are called but few are chosen. The Gambia Football Federation is giving grassroots football development prominence cognizance of its importance, thus I’m advising you to make good use of the programme,” he said.
“We want all of you to represent The Gambia at national level as professionals. Football is a big industry and the GFF is very serious about it. I want to thank the Technical Department for the efforts exerted into the programme and let me reassure you of the Executive Committee’s support to your cause.
The event was also attended by the General Secretary of the GFF Mr. Lamin M. Jassey who also made similar remarks. Mr. Sadibu Kamaso, an Exco Member, Mr. Baboucarr Camara, the Director of Marketing & Communications at Football House, his assistant Bakary B. Baldeh as well as Mr. Baboucarr Sowe, alias Laos, Gambia’s longest serving national team captain was also present at the gathering.
The programme is aimed at unearthing new talents that would represent the country at local and international competitions in the future. It is done in the form of a national football jamboree that is organised in two folds with the first bringing together boys and girls aged between 12 and 15 in the Greater Banjul Area for a two-day camp at the National Technical Training Center (NTTC) in Old Yundum with the second phase eye-marking the same age category for those in the four provincial regions of the country to converge at Jarra Soma next weekend.
This is part of the Federation’s four-year national football development strategic plan that is in the implementing stage of a devised mechanism to identify young talents at the schools and train them to becoming future global stars in an effort to bridge the current talent drain at the schools level.
