{"id":55453,"date":"2024-03-26T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?p=55453"},"modified":"2024-03-26T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:07:00","slug":"brikama-buzzing-with-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football","title":{"rendered":"Brikama buzzing with night football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Football has moved even further into the veins of the people of Brikama where night football has been introduced with enthralling response.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The town\u2019s football authorities spontaneously designed a ward or Kabilo tournament-perhaps more out of easing the boredom of the Ramadan- and dedicated it to the memory of the late legendary coach Sulayman Kuyateh.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament becomes a huge success with thousands flocking to the Box Bar every night to cheer teams from their wards. \u201dThere is lot to learn from this by way of administration and popularisation of the game. The passion at these matches are unprecedented and a good omen for football development,\u201d a seasoned football administrator said.<\/p>\n<p>The Gambia Football Federation GFF tweeted about one of the matches: \u201cThe GFF media was at the Box Bar yesterday to watch Darou vs New Town played under the floodlights provided through the GFF\u2019s stadium projects.\u2019\u2019<\/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. Football has moved even further into the veins of the people of Brikama where night football has been introduced with enthralling response. The town\u2019s football authorities spontaneously designed a ward or Kabilo tournament-perhaps more out of easing the boredom of the Ramadan- and dedicated it to the memory of the late legendary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-55453","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>Brikama buzzing with night football - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Football has moved even further into the veins of the people of Brikama where night football has been introduced with ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brikama buzzing with night football\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Football has moved even further into the veins of the people of Brikama where night football has been introduced with ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-26T15:06:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-26T15:07:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/03\/sm_1711452555.968757.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"798\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Brikama buzzing with night football\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-26T15:06:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-26T15:07:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football\"},\"wordCount\":166,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/03\/sm_1711452555.968757.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/brikama-buzzing-with-night-football\",\"name\":\"Brikama buzzing with night football - 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