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Gambia News : Gambian national football team to play a friendly against Gabon in Paris

The President of The Gambia Football Association (GFA), Seedy Kinteh, in confirming this to journalists on Sunday, said they had secured the international friendly against Gabon’s national team as part of the overall effort to build a formidable side for the 2012 London Olympic Games and the next African Nations Cup qualifiers.

According to Kinteh, the Gambian players will travel to France from their different locations across the world for the February 11 encounter.

Earlier on, the Gambia national team participated in the first round of the 2010 combined World Cup and African Nations Cup qualifiers, in which it failed to qualify despite finishing second in Group 6 behind Algeria, due to a technicality arising from a Confederation of African Football (CAF) formula.

It was after that performance that the GFA decided to keep the team for the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2012 African Nations Cup qualifiers.

Therefore, Kinteh said the coming encounter with Gabon is in line with that decision.