Against all odds including a denial of access to the stadium for training The Gambia Under 17 national team made the country proud Saturday unleashing a 3-0 emphatic away victory on the host Sierra Leone in the first leg of the preliminaries that will end here on October 28 with the return leg.
Catherine Jatta opened the scores in the first quarter of the match before captain Aminata Camara stepped into score from a free kick. Ola Buaro made it 3-0 within the same half and tried as they, the host could not come up with a reply. The results means the Gambian girls are almost certainly through to the First Round even though they will first have to finish the job on Sierra Leone on October 28 in Banjul.
Reactions to the teams’ victory reechoed sentiments that where current Gambian men’s football is in total disgrace women’s football has always proven to be worthy of praise.
Coach Aboulie Bojang and his girls are due back Tuesday to prepare for the return leg.
The winner of the tie will meet Ghana in the first round also of two legs from December 1 and 14.
The winner of that round goes to the final around of qualifiers in February 2018.
