Gambia
Football Federation executive member Bakary K. Jammeh highlighted that the
GFF’s four-year strategic development plan is also premised on improving the
economic and financial capacity of clubs through sound governance and control.
Mr
Jammeh in a marathon Power Point presentation to club managers at CAF Club
Licensing seminar held in The Gambia recently, said one of the fundamental
objectives of the seminar is to ‘promote and improve the quality and level of
football aspects in The Gambia’.
He
said the seminar seeks to go beyond ensuring that clubs have the appropriate
infrastructure knowledge and application in respect of management and
organization.
The
GFF ExCO-member was presenting administrative, financial and legal criteria
instructor as one of the key components of club licensing requirements.
“Certain
things must be done to be able to achieve in this domain and as such our level
of development cannot be compared to the others.”
He
reminded club managers about the 2009 Banjul declaration that, according to
him, demanded some requirements and obligations for the clubs to turn
professional in management.
‘The
Banjul declaration tasked clubs to improve their sporting infrastructure and
ensure the necessary compliance in terms of financial and legal,” Baks reminded
the managers.
He
said the major stakeholders in the CAF Club licensing are the licensor which
according to him is the Gambia Football Federation, CAF, the legal authorities
and the League cubs.
“The
major criterion is that one must be granted a licence and of course there are
two types of licence: normal and extraordinary.”
This
is the second time that the GFF hosted a major CAF engagement in a year
relative to club licensing system.
Other
resource persons included GFF deputy general secretary Abdou Salaam Jammeh, who
delved on infrastructure criteria and GFF technical director Ebrima Manneh on
Club Licensing Criteria.
The
daylong seminar, held at the Independence Stadium Friendship Hostel in Bakau,
was attended by all club managers.
Also
in attendance was GFF ex-co-adviser Alhagie Omar Sey and Sulayman Bun Njie, a
member of the First Instant Board (FIB).
The
programme was presided over by the GFF president Lamin Kabba Bajo.
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