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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Athletic, a subscription-based sports journalism website and the sports department of The New York Times that focuses on a mix of long-form journalism, original reporting, and in-depth analysis has ranked the Gambia national team\u2019s jersey at the recently concluded Afcon 2023 as among the ugly.<\/b><\/p>\n

In its Afcon kit rating The Athletic gave the Gambian kit 3 over 10 which falls in the category of Ugly. Mali is ranked to be among the \u2018Mad\u2019 while Ghana is considered to be among the \u2018Good\u2019.<\/p>\n

In its review of the kit all 24 sides were wearing, the website said it discovered a mix of the plain and the outlandish, the inspired and the awful, with everything in between. On the Gambian jersey the website said: \u201cAnother one with too much going on. You\u2019ve got your big swoosh across the chest. You\u2019ve got your shoulder detail. You\u2019ve got your sleeve detail. You\u2019ve got your background pattern. Two of those elements would have been fine. Three at a push. But all of them… just pick your favourites and go with that, without trying to overdo it. Plus, for some reason this combination of colours \u2013 red, deep blue, dark green, white \u2013 doesn\u2019t really work as a football kit. It\u2019s difficult to explain why, and the designers were obviously hamstrung by the colours of the national flag, but it just looks a bit odd. Sorry, The Gambia\u201d.<\/p>\n

Reacting to this, the Director of Communications at the Gambia Football Federation Baboucar Camara said whereas he respects the opinion of the website, he totally disagrees with it.\u201d Obviously, our jersey depicts the beautiful colours of our national flag very well designed on it and that is what is important. In fact, many Gambians disagreed with this view in reactions I saw online. Our kit is not the least ugly and I don\u2019t think it will be reasonable to say we have the ugliest. I saw it as a light hearted story meant to add to the excitement of the tournament,\u201d Mr Camara said.<\/p>\n

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