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Posted - 14 Nov 2007 : 18:53:44
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Banjul: Bringing Back the Glory Days By Modou Nyang and Sulayman Bah
Banjul are bent on reviving the old days when they reigned supreme in the Zonal/Super Nawettan competition.
The City Boys has in the past enjoyed much of the glory in the history of the Super Nawettan competition winning it most until Serrekunda East outdone them in the last few years. And this is what the new look Banjul Sports Committee BAC, want to see a change to and have has made winning this years title their target. With the likes of Ebou Dubois, Amara Sarjo (Oga), Dodou Jaw, Bai Omar Samba and Saul Faye, Banjul cruised over opponents with relative ease in the Zonal/Super Nawettan competition. Serrekunda East led by Jatto and Co were the only side that some times stood in front of proud city dwellers. “The problem of Banjul over [recent] years is that we had players who either play in the 2nd division or no divisional [football at all]. But this year the backbone of the team is made of 1st division players. So we are hopeful that we will have a good side, it is just a question of the team doing well in [our] first match which will determine the course of [our progress], said Ebou Faye Secretary General of the BSC. “This year Alagie Sillah is the coach [and] supported by kebba Njie (Bacher) together with Omar Joof and Luke and our target is to win the trophy, because we were challenged by the SoS for Youth and Sports (Mass Axi Gai) that we should bring back the glory days”, faye added. “Alagie Sillah is a senior coach, one of the most senior in the country, he is a Banjulian and he loves Banjul that is why he decided to come out and take over the team because most of the coaches we selected [earlier] are those coaching the Nawettan teams. He is very passionate about his job”.
Banjul crashed out of the Super Nawettan in the group stage last year failing to win a single game against supposed minnows Brikama, Sukuta and Gunjur. They conceding 9 goals scoring only once against Gunjur and that poor showing by the hitherto invincible Banjul was blamed on the failure turn to up by many of the senior players selected to represent them at the competition. And to avoid any such humiliation, the BSC this time ensured that they get all their big guns together and even faced a tough task to trim the squad to the required 25 players as a result of high turnout of players. Faye continued: “We Struggled last year because of that (lack of player turnout) but this year is different it is a rule that any player who is selected must report to training [and] if you don’t you will be suspended from playing in the Banjul Nawettan. The objective is to have one Banjul team that will compete for Banjul, so any player who wants to play in the Banjul Nawettan must be prepared to play for the Banjul team. “All of them [of those invited] reported to training, [now] we have few senior players who are going to lead the team this year so the challenge is bigger this year than last and we see Banjul doing well looking at it from a technical point of view. [So] we are going all out to win”.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues Issue No. 134/2007, 14 - 15 November, 2007
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