As
part of preparations for the 2018 CHAN qualifiers, which gets underway in July,
The Gambia’s local-based National Team will play two friendly international
matches with their counterparts from Morocco in Banjul.
The
matches will be played at the Independence Stadium on Friday 24 March and
Sunday 26 March.
The
Gambian team will be led by Foday Bah of Wallidan and Abdoulie Bojang of Steve
Biko in the absence of the CHAN Team Coach Alhagie Sarr, who is currently
preparing his Gambia Ports Authority team in the second and deciding leg of
their CAF Champions League qualifiers.
As
part of preparations for the games, both Bah and Bojang today met with
officials of the Gambia Football Federation at Football House in Kanifing.
The
tacticians have already drawn up a provisional squad of 30 players who will
begin training at the National Technical Training Centre in Yundum tomorrow,
Thursday, March 16, 2017. They will again train on Friday after which they will
take a break to return to respective clubs for the weekend’s league matches.
The
team will then resume training on Monday at the Independence Stadium where they
will continue to train for the remaining days of their preparations. The team
is expected to go to camp on Thursday 23 March.
It
would be recalled that The Gambia has been drawn against Mali in the first
round of the CHAN qualifiers.
The
first game will be played in Banjul at the weekend of 14, 15 and 16 of July,
with the return leg a week later in Bamako.
The
winner over the two legs will face either Mauritania or Liberia for a place in
Kenya in 2018.
Source:
GFF
