{"id":21708,"date":"2022-09-12T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gambia-u-23-team-beat-league-selection"},"modified":"2022-09-12T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:25:27","slug":"gambia-u-23-team-beat-league-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-23-team-beat-league-selection","title":{"rendered":"Gambia U-23 team beat League Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Arfang M.S Camara<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>As part of their preparations ahead of the African Championship qualifiers, The Gambia U-23 team defeated the League Selection players 4-1 during a game played at the Independence Stadium in Bakau on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Alieu Barry opened the scoring for the national U-23 side before Mustapha Jallow of Real De Banjul leveled matters for the League Selection side in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Abdoulie Kah netted twice before Abdoulie Manneh also added the icing on the cake to give the U-23 a comfortable victory over the League Selection.<\/p>\n<p>The Gambia National U-23 side under the guidance of Coach Abdou Jammeh (T-Boy) are intensifying their preparations ahead of their qualifiers match against Burkina Faso next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Scorpions will first play a double-legged tie against The Stallions between 19 to 27 September 2022, on knockout basis. The winner of the first round will have another double-legged tie in October, before the third and final qualifier game next year in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The U23 Africa Cup of Nations tournament will take place in Morocco in June 2023 and will serve as a qualifying tournament to the Summer Olympics -Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Under-23 tournament was founded in 2011. On 6 August 2015, the CAF Executive Committee decided to change the name of the tournament from the CAF U-23 Championship to the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations, similar to the senior\u2019s version, Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arfang M.S Camara Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. As part of their preparations ahead of the African Championship qualifiers, The Gambia U-23 team defeated the League Selection players 4-1 during a game played at the Independence Stadium in Bakau on Friday. 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