Editor,

Please, kindly permit me space in your observer mail column to voice out my disappointment concerning the Gambia foot ball association (GFA).

Indeed to be realistic, the association is not showing any significant progress at all, simply because it isn’t achieving its objectives. The aims and objectives of any FA are to move from good to better and from better to best. For soccer to improve in the Gambia, the GFA should closely look in to the system of their administration. As a soccer lover of the Gambia, I have realized the fact that football improves in the country only in the era of foreign coaches.  It has been quite many decades that Gambian coaches have never won a trophy without the involvement of foreign coaches.

I also realized that the era of foreign coaches, is the period of joy and hope. This is quite a reality.

If Gambian coaches are honest they might have won zone 2 for at least once, this is because they do not select the right player for the right task.

Allah the almighty knows that Gambia has quite a lot of young talented players, but yet it seems as if soccer has just surfaced in Banjul yesterday. Indeed this is quite puzzling. One thing also very disheartening is that the time Gambian people have hope to qualify, becomes the time when our tears run down. This is quite unbearable.

To my personal point of view, Gambian coaches are the best in terms of match analysis, but the irony is that they cannot deliver practically when the task is given to them.

The way and manner they analyze a particular game, shows the dear manifestation that they possess, their skill and ability to handle a team. But, oh dear! They always fail. The problem is that the process of selection is never fair.

On a final note, let me remind you that operation no compromise is aimed at every sector of the society. Thank you.

Nfansu Drammeh

Dampha Kunda (Basse)

Editor’s Note:

Mr. Drammeh, football fans the world over always react exactly as you do! One disappointing match and they want to crucify their coaches and their FA! Don’t forget the FA members and the coaches don’t actually play the game themselves.

It is the players who play - and lose! So, even a fantastic coach can work with only the raw material he has got. How good is that raw material? How dedicated and above all disciplined in training and performance are they? Please let us have a debate by all means, but don’t attack just the FA!

Editor’s Note:

Mr. Drammeh, football fans the world over always react exactly as you do! One disappointing match and they want to crucify their coaches and their FA! Don’t forget the FA members and the coaches don’t actually play the game themselves.

It is the players who play - and lose! So, even a fantastic coach can work with only the raw material he has got. How good is that raw material? How dedicated and above all disciplined in training and performance are they? Please let us have a debate by all means, but don’t attack just the FA!