Ministry
of Youth and Sports through the National Sports Council (NSC) has felicitated
the Gambia Football Federation (GFF) for their sound football management.
The
regulatory body was at Football House on Monday 27 January as part of their
visit to National Sports Associations in a bid to get first-hand information
regarding the operations of the various sporting bodies.
Executive
Director National Sports Council, Marcel Kevin Mendy said their visit to the
GFF Secretariat is premised on a tour of Associations to abreast the council on
their activities and amongst others acquaint the body with current realities of
Associations’ work plan, engagements, way forward and constraints.
Been
the top most sport Association in the country, Mr. Mendy described the GFF as
pace setters for other Associations to emulate from.
He
expressed the MoYS’s gratitude and happiness through the National Sports
Council for the improvements and successes registered at the Football House and
by extension to the Senior National team for their recent Africa Cup of Nations
qualifiers performance.
He said the NSC will continue to be the
interface between the GFF and the Ministry of Youth and Sports for all matters
regarding their programs.
He assured the Ministry’s unalloyed support to
the development of football and reiterated the Council’s desire to working with
Football House at all times.
GFF
General Secretary Lamin M Jassey in return also hailed the NSC for a laudable
initiative and thanked the NSC Officials for being steadfast in their programs
during the period while renewing the commitment of the GFF to working closely
with the Ministry of Youth and sports through the NSC.
Jassey
further used the occasion to abreast the Council about GFF’s programs
highlighting its upcoming engagements in the months of February and March.
He
singled out the Gambia’s return to the African
Cup of Nations qualifiers in March where the Scorpions will resume their
Group D match away to Gabon in the first-leg and at home in Banjul for the
second-leg in March 2020.
Mr.
Jassey further informed the NSC Officials about Gambia’s invitation to the West
Africa Football Union (WAFU) Women’s tournament to be hosted by Sierra Leone in
February this year.
He said the GFF has worked out plans to
participate in the tournament and informed the Council that a team is already
at hand.
He
also informed the Council about the new player registration system (PRS)
introduced by the GFF meant to track the details of all players online
.
He said it is a new innovation by the GFF Competitions Department which also
incorporates League statistics and according to him will also curb player age
cheating.
He
thanked the NSC for the visit and congratulated the Executive Director for the
laudable initiative to make the Council close to the sporting Associations.
Other members in the NSC tour team include Ebrima Secka and Alhagie Abdoulie
Bojang.
Source-GFF