{"id":40745,"date":"2023-08-13T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/cafs-disapproval-of-gambia-stadium-surprises-minister-badjie"},"modified":"2023-08-13T20:14:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:14:56","slug":"cafs-disapproval-of-gambia-stadium-surprises-minister-badjie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/cafs-disapproval-of-gambia-stadium-surprises-minister-badjie","title":{"rendered":"CAF\u2019s disapproval of Gambia Stadium surprises Minister Badjie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Bakary Y. Badjie, minister for Youth and Sports, has stated that he is surprised at the decision of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to disapprove the Independence Stadium hosting Gambia-Congo game after a preliminary inspection.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understood that inviting him (Muhammed Sidat, CAF inspector) was not for him to come and give approval. The idea was to invite an inspector to come and look at what we are doing and advise us on what to improve on as experts,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged the fact that a lot of things have changed in terms of stadia construction but noted that that they were not doing a complete rehabilitation of the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were doing what can be done to gain temporal approval for the September Gambia-Congo match,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that they took note of what the CAF inspector shared with them to improve on which includes media tribune, scoreboard, change the footlights, the outside perimeter fence, painting of the outside stadium and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur surprise was not what he said. Rather, we were expecting him to come back for a final inspection to give us a temporary approval. But four days after he left, they wrote and said \u2018Gambia Stadium cannot be used for the upcoming match\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minister Badjie pointed out that they had taken the advice of the inspector and CAF and would work on what is required for the stadium to gain approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry has taken the decision to invite the CAF inspector again after we finish working on the recommendation,\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the stadium has always been on a ban that was never lifted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were looking for temporary approval to play at home. However, when we are done with the work, we will call them (CAF) for a final inspection,\u201d he said.<\/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>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Bakary Y. Badjie, minister for Youth and Sports, has stated that he is surprised at the decision of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to disapprove the Independence Stadium hosting Gambia-Congo game after a preliminary inspection. \u201cWe understood that inviting him (Muhammed Sidat, CAF inspector) was not for him to come and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-40745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CAF\u2019s disapproval of Gambia Stadium surprises Minister Badjie - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bakary Y. 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