Malik,

True,a foreign coach can be good for national sport but we need to give our
local coaches extra chance and of course financil and noral support.

Our national players are yet to receive their allowance after they return
from Mali. The major problem that our national sport is facing is FULL
SUPPORT from the those concern. Hiring a foreign coach is not the solution.

Why spend such a huge amount on a foreign coach? That amount can be used to
hire a local coach while at the same pay our players their allowances. I
think what our local coaches need is more exposure and further training
abroad.




>From: Malik Jeng <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Local or Foreign Football Coach in the Gambia?
>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:39:53 +0000
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>Pa Samba and Yus,
>If Gambia can lobby a foreign coach through technical assistance or even if
>budget permits, it can only be good for the national sport.  The local
>coaches have managed three Zone 2 finals since Box bar days.  We have not
>qualified for any major football tourney and players leave in their drove
>for the West.  How long more do we have to wait for someone to deliver?
>A good foreign coach would improve technique, which is lacking and the
>reason we dominate matches and fail to win.  Discipline will be better
>instilled and good chances of flogging players abroad owing to wider
>contacts.
>Nigeria, our cousins Senegal and a host of other African countries had done
>so to their betterment.  The Sereign Sahou/Oberman partnership was an
>exciting experience which immediately paved way for trial matches.
>
>Njok Malik
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