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The Gambia has dropped drastically in the latest FIFA rankings released on Wednesday, a month after making its highest mark on both global and continental level. The Gambia was ranked 65th and 12th in the World and African standings respectively in May ... [Gambia News]

Kenny Mansally and Sainey Nyassi had to improve if they wanted to spend less time on the New England Revolution bench and more time on the field impacting matches. For the first six games of the season, the pair didn't have to worry about ... [Gambia News]

The Steve Biko FC forward, who was prolific for his country’s Under-17 side during the 2009 African Under-17 Championship qualifiers, failed to make the trip to the finals in Algeria after he lost consciousness at a Baby Scorpions training session at the Independence Stadium. Tests ... [Gambia News]

Each member of the Gambian under-17 national team which won the 2009 African nations cup last week will get one million dalasis (approximately US$ 40, 000) from President Yahya Jammeh. Jammeh made the pledge at the victory celebrations for the team which ... [Gambia News]

Tottenham and Inter Milan are understood to be battling it out for the signature of highly-rated Gambian youngster Ebrima Bojang. The teenager has caught the eye of several scouts during the current African Under-17 Championships, where he will play for ... [Gambia News]

Gambia have won the African Under-17 Championship. The Baby Scorpions beat hosts Algeria 3-1 in the final on Thursday. Gambia took the lead with a diving header early in the first half. At half-time the Gambia had doubled their tally, but ... [Gambia News]

Hosts Algeria and Gambia have qualified for the semi-finals of the African U-17 Football Championships. Algeria beat Guinea 1-0, courtesy of a strike from Nadir Bendahmane 14 minutes into the game. Gambia beat Cameroon 2-0 in today's game in Group A. Dawda Ceesay ... [Gambia News]

Toronto FC bolstered its back line on Tuesday by signing Gambian defenders Emmanuel Gomez and Amadou Sanyang. Gomez joins the Major League Soccer club from Samger FC of the Gambian first division, while Sanyang arrives from Real de Banjul FC. "Both these players ... [Gambia News]

Rugby is a relatively unknown sport in The Gambia but that may soon not be the case if a story in Monday’s private daily, The Point newspaper in Banjul, is anything to go by. According to The Point, 38 ... [Gambia News]

The Gambia’ national Under-17 team, the Baby Scorpions on Saturday defeated their Guinean counterparts by two goals to nil in a friendly encounter at the Independence Stadium in Bakau, about 12 kilometres outside Banjul, the capital. The first goal was scored by ... [Gambia News]

As part of efforts to strengthen and build a formidable side for the 2009 African Under-17 tournament scheduled for Algeria in March, the Gambia’s national Under-17 team will on Saturday engage in an international friendly with their ... [Gambia News]

The Gambia national football team, the Scorpions are scheduled to meet Gabon in an international friendly match in Paris on 11 February, 2009, APA learns here Sunday. The President of The Gambia Football Association (GFA), Seedy Kinteh, in confirming this to journalists ... [Gambia News]

The Gambia national team the Scorpions have set another best record in the 2009 January FIFA rankings by moving 13 places up and jumping 33 points in the global listings, APA learns here Thursday. ... [Gambia News]

The Champions of this year’s Gambia Football Association premier league competition, Wallidan have announced their withdrawal from the CAF championship competition. Announcing their withdrawal Tuesday from the competition, the club’s president, Alhagie O.B. Conateh explained that the club needed one million and five ... [Gambia News]

Gambia midfielder Sanna Nyassi has become the third player under contract at the U.S football team Seattle Sounders. Nyassi is currently being loaned to the Seattle Sounders of the USL First Division and will play with the lower-level team for the remainder of ... [Gambia News]

The Gambian national U-17 football team Saturday beat their Ghanaian counterparts 2-0 to qualify for the African youth soccer championship holding in Algeria in 2009. In the match played at the Independence Stadium in Bakau, ... [Gambia News]

The 2008 Commonwealth Games General Assembly has opened in Banjul with a closed-door meeting among the delegates to discuss matters that affect the organisation and allow participating countries seek support for their bids. Deputy executive director of the Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) ... [Gambia News]

GAMBIA midfielder Tijan Jaiteh will get a chance to realise his Premier League dream at Ewood Park after Rovers invited him to Lancashire for a trial. The SK Brann youngster has attracted the interest of several Premier League clubs but Rovers have become ... [Gambia News]

Ghana’s Under 17 national team Black Starlets on Sunday put up an impressive performance to beat their Gambian counterparts, Young Scorpions 3-1 in the first leg of their African Under 17 Championship Qualifier in a match played at the Baba ... [Gambia News]

Senegalese national coach Lamine Ndiaye was sacked Monday after visiting Gambia locked hosts Senegal to a disastrous 1-1 draw in the CAN-World Cup joint qualifiers. As a result, Senegal will stand aloof of international contest for three-year, which sent irate fans in ... [Gambia News]

Gambian senior national team, the Scorpions, Saturday made history, by qualifying, for the first time, for the third round of the World and African Nations cup competitions' next stage. Following their goalless draw in Banjul with the Taranga Lions of Senegal and a ... [Gambia News]

Senegal's failure to make it to the final stage of qualifying for the 2010 World and Africa Cup of Nations was met by a hail of missiles from their fans in Dakar. A 1-1 draw with local rivals Gambia left the Teranga Lions ... [Gambia News]

The captain of the Gambia senior national team, Ebou Sillah has urge the Gambian fans travelling to Dakar, Senegal for the most crucial derby game between the Gambia and Senegal in the World and African cup preliminaries round to stay calm and avoid no ... [Gambia News]

A member of the only Gambian side to ever beat Senegal believes an overdue victory will come in Saturday's winner-takes-all 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Dakar. The victory against their neighbours came way back in 1962, when the ... [Gambia News]

Gambia football authorities have dismissed claims made by the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) that they used over-aged players in their Africa U-17 Championship qualifiers. The Baby Scorpions won the first round, second-leg encounter 3-0 on Saturday to eliminate Sierra Leone 7-1 on ... [Gambia News]

The Gambian Under-17 national football team Sunday defea ted their Sierra Leonean counterparts 4-1 in the African nations' cup championship qualifier here. Saikou Gassama put the hosts on victory path with his 37th minute strike and both teams later squandered penalty chances ... [Gambia News]

The Red Bulls signed Gambian forward Sainey Touray _ nicknamed Ballack _ to a developmental deal. To make room for on the developmental roster, they gave Sinisa Ubiparipovic a much-deserved bump up to the senior roster. Apparently the kid we ... [Gambia News]

Gambia held Senegal to a 0-0 draw in the 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in Banjul. The Scorpions were hoping for their first victory since 1962 over their neighbours but it wasn't to be. Senegal stay top of ... [Gambia News]

The Deputy Inspector General of Gambia's police says that all necessary security measures have been taken to avoid any violence ahead of Sunday's clash with Senegal. The neighbours meet in a joint World Cup and Nations Cup qualifier in Banjul, with the last ... [Gambia News]

Gambia's newly signed coach Paul Put has expressed confi dence the country's national team, Scorpions, will return victorious from Monrovia, Liberia, in their first encounter of World Cup preliminary qualifiers against the Lone Stars of Liberia this weekend. Put is to lead ... [Gambia News]

Indiana University men's basketball coach Tom Crean has announced that Tijan Jobe , a 7-0, 255-lb. center from Olney (Ill.) Central College has signed a national letter of intent to attend IU and play basketball for the Hoosiers ... [Gambia News]

ust weeks away from the start of their 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ qualifying campaign, Gambia have been boosted by a jump into the top 100 on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. It is the first time ... [Gambia News]