Gambia national football team

The Gambian national football team is organized by the Gambia Football Association. The team of The Gambia, which is also called The Scorpions had never before participated in a World Cup or European Championship. The team is coached by Luciano Mancini.

In the Football World Cup 2006, the team was defeated in the first qualifying round against the team from Liberia just with a score of 2:3 and could not qualify it.

5.1 U-17 national football team
5.2 U-20 national football team

Coach

Sang Ndong was over ten years coach of the national team until he was released by the Association in 2003. The office remained vacant until mid-September 2006, when the former German Bundesliga player Antoine " Tony" Hey was (68 Bundesliga appearances for Fortuna Dusseldorf and Schalke 04) coach of the team. He remained until April 2007 and they separated, because there were differences about the payment. Shortly coached the Spaniard José Martínez the team. Now, since May 2008, the Belgian Paul Put coach of the national team, he is assisted by Peter Bonu Johnson. The contract with the put was dissolved on 31 August 2011, as a fundamental failure in the African Cup of 2012 was given. The former assistant coach Bonu Johnson coached the team.

In May 2012, Bonu was replaced by the former assistant coach, the Italian Luciano Mancini. Bonu is now an assistant coach. Mancini will now accompany in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2014 Gambia.

Current squad

The current squad for the African Cup Qualification 2012 ( updated September 5, 2011 ):

Known player

A list of all National players can be found at List of Gambian national football team. Currently playing seven players of the Gambian football team in Germany. These are:

Mohammed Camara (FC Wartburg Eisenach, Thuringia Landesklasse )
Kemo Ceesay ( 1.FC Lok Stendal, Association League )
Pa Malick Joof (SV Wilhelmshaven, Regionalliga North)
Abdou Njie -Rahman ( SpVgg Bayern Hof, Association League )
Matthew Mendy (KFC Uerdingen 05, Association League )
Timo Examination ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, 2nd Bundesliga)
Pa Saikou Kujabi ( FSV Frankfurt, Bundesliga 2 )

Timo Uster is a native of Berlin and German citizens. His parents are German. However, Uster Gambian grandparents, which allows him to play for Gambia.

14 other Gambian national team are currently active in European leagues:

Jatto Ceesay ( Omniworld Almere, The Netherlands)
Kebba Ceesay ( Djurgårdens IF, Sweden)
Aziz Corr Nyang ( Tyresö FF, Sweden)
Modou Jagne (SC Rheindorf Altach, Austria )
Latiff Janneh (SC Wielsbeke, Belgium)
Mustapha Jarju ( Lierse SK, Belgium)
Assan Jatta ( Lierse SK, Belgium)
Ebrahim Savaneh ( Unia Janikowo, Poland)
Ebou Sillah ( MVV Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Seyfo Soley ( Preston North End, England)
Edrissa Sonko ( Skoda Xanthi, Greece)
Pa Ousman Sonko ( SV Austria Salzburg, Austria )
Pa Dembo Touray ( Djurgårdens IF, Sweden)

Other Gambian players with European experience are:

Simon Badjie (currently without a club, formerly among others, AC Pro Sesto, Italy)
Dawda Bah (USM Blida, Algeria; earlier films KPV Kokkola, Finland)
Arthur Gómez (Henan Jianye, China; formerly among others, FC Antwerp, Belgium and Manchester United Reserves, England)
Momodou Loum (currently without a club, formerly among others Högaborgs BK, Sweden)

The Senegalese professional footballer Babacar N'Diaye, currently in Preußen Münster under contract, received in early January 2007 by the Gambian Association a request for a friendly against Saudi Arabia, but called off.

Achievements

World Cup Soccer Championships

In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil Gambia could not prevail against the Ivory Coast, Morocco and Tanzania, and had no chance to qualify already on 8 June 2013 following a 0-3 home defeat against Ivory Coast.

African Cup of Nations

African Nations Cup

2009: not qualified
2011: did not participate
2014: did not participate

Offspring

U-17 national football team

The men's team had no tournament successes, this is the youth team, the U -17 - called the Baby Scorpions - successful. You could make a tournament victory when she won in May 2005 at the African Cup against the selection from Ghana 1-0 and thus Africa champion. Thus they could to the U-17 World Cup, which was held in Peru in September 2005. There they defeated in a dramatic entrance by the reigning world champion, the Brazilian U -17 team and also won the second game. But in the third game she succumbed and was thus at the end excreted unhappy.

Gambia's government and also the people were thrilled with the success and celebrated the young talent that is surely to be found now on the notepad even with international talent scouts.

U-20 national football team

The U -20 was able to qualify for the U-20 football World Cup 2007 in Canada, where one came with a victory against Portugal in the first knockout round, but there failed to Austria.

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