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With news of confirmed cases of the deadly disease Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, where the Gambia Under-20 team is heading for a weekend qualifier, the GFF yesterday told The Standard they are aware of the latest development and are currently working on taking necessary steps...

In the wake of the outbreak of the deadly disease Ebola in Guinea, and reports of a suspected case in Liberia, there has been muted but genuine concern as to whether the GFF have included preventive health information in their pre-trip briefing of the team and officials or if there is any need for them to raise concern about it to Caf....

The Gambia Under-20 youth team, the Young Scorpions on Saturday beat Casa Sports 1-0 to wrap up their preparations for the first leg of the preliminary round of the 2015 championship, which takes them to Monrovia this weekend. Again, it was talisman Madi Fatty who stole the show, slotting in the winner five minutes into the second half and it could have been more. Fatty had earlier in the week stunned the local Scorpions two goals to nil in the first warm up match.

Kanifing municipality has become the second region to start the first national regional league football championship which will serve as the third division in Gambian football....

The two Gambian international match commissioners Seedy Kinteh and Adama Hala Samba are among 56 African match commissioners heading to Cairo, for a two day seminar, reports gleaned from Caf sources revealed. According to the report,...

Laid-off former staff of the Gambia Football Association, GFF, would have their unpaid social security contributions paid, albeit gradually, said the first vice president of the now modeled Gambia Football federation, Buba 'Star' Janneh. Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Standard, Mr Janneh said the arrears accumulated over the years under the defunct GFA, but since the GFF came to power last August, all the salaries paid were accompanied by social security contributions of the employees....

After seeing off the home-based Scorpions in a friendly Wednesday, the national Under-20 continue their warm-up for Liberia with another tough clash planned for this weekend. ...

The first vice-president of the Gambia Football Federation, Buba 'Star' Janneh, yesterday told a large gathering of Gambian football coaches currently attending a Level 3 course that they must take the training seriously because they form the cream of Gambian football. “You are today the best crop of coaches in this country and therefore must make good use of this important levels of training in coaching,'' Janneh told participants, which included some of The Gambia's best known league club coaches.....

Ten days before The Gambia head to Liberia for the African Under-20 championship qualifiers, officials yesterday told The Standard that the newly-selected squad would be flying off to Liberia on April 3, after arrangements have been completed for The Gambia to take another shot at glory in international youth football. ...

The GFF organising committee yesterday rejected Samger FC's appeal for a replay of their first round fixture against Steve Biko. Samger did not show up for the fixture saying they were waiting for a response from the GFF to a request they sent there for them to first play their rescheduled match against Gamtel, before playing Biko in the last fixture of the round.

Following the decision by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, MOYS, to wrest control of May sports from the Gambia National Olympic Committee, GNOC, in the wake of the NOC saga, people have been wondering whether the event would take place this year. ....

Twenty Level 3 football coaches have been selected to undergo an Olympic Solidarity coaching course organised by the Gambia National Olympic Committee, GNOC, starting today and lasting until April 7 at the Djeliba Hotel on the Senegambia strip....