The National U-20 will return to action today at the Stade Alphonse Masamba Debat in Brazzaville at 15.30GMT, against Congo. The team was able to pit its conquering talents against Burkina Faso in its opening task by 2-0.

The Gambia now face its next opponent Congo, host of the 2007 African Youth Championship. The national team prepare for the bigger task in its campaign sounding very conscious of the assignment as in the words of Coach Peter Bonu Johnson; “My first priority is to qualify for the semi-finals which enables us an automatic qualification for the World Youth Championship, then set the goal for the trophy”. Coach Peter Bonu Johnson was speaking to the Pointsport yesterday at his Le Meridien Hotel in the outskirts of Brazzaville.

Bonu called for the support and prayers that have accorded the team the merits of going to Congo. “We will do the hard work in the field and make sure that we give our best, but the luck that is in football needs to be seeked for and here I ask for all the prayers and support that will enable us reach where we want”.

The national team will not however be left alone. President Jammeh has airlifted over one hundred supporters to cheer the national team at the Brazzaville venue. The members of the Scorpions fans club and the Kabakel cultural troop are already in high spirit to demonstrate the performance of their lives.

Although the traveling fans missed the Gambia’s curtain raiser, they were substituted by the good number of Gambians resident at the Democratic Republic of Congo, who only had to cross a river to the cheer the team and also the few Gambians resident at Congo Brazzaville.

The ambiance is expected to be much greater and colorful citing the fact that the fans already bagged their masks, drums to make noise equaling the host and paints their bodies with the Gambian colors to fashion out the unique way of Gambian supporting.

The team travel would travel on Wednesday by air to Pointe Noire five hundred kilometers away from Brazzaville where they will rest for a day and take on their last group opponent Ivory Coast on Friday.

Bottom sides of group A Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso meet today. The Ivorian coach Michel Troin already found another tactic from his shelves. “I will go out at all cost to win this game, it’s an important match for us”, he concluded. Ivory Coast suffered in the hands of host Congo whiles the other beating was done by Gambia to Burkina Faso on the same day.