Thank you for posting the interview.
Every time I´m in The Gambia I go to watch  all football matches, no matter
if it´s the Scorpions, the young Scorpions, the local league, the teams out
in Lamin, Latrikunda, or Makumbaya. And it´s a pleasure and privilege every
time I meet with BIRI. Last year we met first one day at Banjul Market and
exchanged greetings, later when the young scorpions played at Baku Stadium.
This year we attended a match at the 22.july square, when the team from the
guards won, and some days later after elections we met at my hotel one night
watching football on TV.
I´m glad to say that BIRI is still a legend in Denmark. There are so many
football fans who still remember him. The coach Nielsen, who later was
national coach for a short period past away many years back, but we still
remember him as the coach, who brought BIRI to danish football.
And for you football fans out there I can inform you that we have a very
talented young gambian here in Denmark, who has played the national team
under 15 and under 17. We can all see his talent and if he one day becomes
danish nationality he can maybe play the national team. We should like him
here, but maybe you want him into the young Scorpions ?
Thanks for the nice interview. Regards Asbjørn Nordam

on 05/11/01 17:02, Y C Jow at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Well, Alhagi Njie Biri is still the greatest Gambian footballing export ever.
> On a side note, the Zone II tourney just started and we managed to draw 1 -
> 1 with Les Grandes.
> 
> Check this interview out.  it's quite informative.
> 
> 
> Culled From All Africa.com - Independent
> 
> Make no peccadillo about it, Biri has carved a comfortable soccer niche for
> himself, written his name in lights and deservedly stamped his mark into the
> annals of history. What more could be said of a man who was Gambia's first
> professional footballer? A man who set alight the Spanish and Danish leagues
> with Seville and B1901 respectively, sweeping many honours, rubbed shoulders
> with the likes of John Cruyff and Diego Maradona and whose international
> career spanned an unassailable record of twenty four years? Simply put, Biri
> is a soccer icon and as he waxes eloquently here in this interview, finding a
> mould for him will not be an easy task.
> 

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