{"id":83191,"date":"2025-08-01T17:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:22:26","slug":"gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united","title":{"rendered":"GFF Dismisses Ali Sowe Fc\u2019S Protest against Sibanor United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Organising Committee of the Gambia Football Federation (GFF) has dismissed a protest by Ali Sowe Football Club, which alleged that Sibanor United fielded ineligible players during their second division promotion playoff last week.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn its protest, Ali Sowe FC alleged that Omar Nyassi, Alagie Modou Jarju, Ousman Camara, and Modou Lamin Jarju weren\u2019t eligible to represent Sibanor United in the said match. The OC deliberated the matter in its latest meeting held this week, and following thorough investigations, as well as based on the evidence provided before it, the Committee noted that the matter was an administrative error that emanated from the West Coast Regional Football Association, which led to the omission of the aforementioned quartet from the first master list. However, the second master list rectified the errors and included the players in that list,\u201d GFF clarified.<\/p>\n<p>In its recommendations, the country\u2019s football body stated that after reviewing both master lists and several match forms from the WCR third division league, the Committee concluded that the players are legally registered players of Sibanor United.<\/p>\n<p>According to GFF, based on the evidence it had reviewed, the protest by Ali Sowe FC is \u201cdismissed, declared null and void,\u201d and Sibanor United\u2019s promotion to the second division has been upheld.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The Organising Committee of the Gambia Football Federation (GFF) has dismissed a protest by Ali Sowe Football Club, which alleged that Sibanor United fielded ineligible players during their second division promotion playoff last week. \u201cIn its protest, Ali Sowe FC alleged that Omar Nyassi, Alagie Modou Jarju, Ousman Camara, and Modou Lamin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":83190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-83191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","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>GFF Dismisses Ali Sowe Fc\u2019S Protest against Sibanor United - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Organising Committee of the Gambia Football Federation (GFF) has dismissed a protest by Ali Sowe Football Club, w ...\" \/>\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\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GFF Dismisses Ali Sowe Fc\u2019S Protest against Sibanor United\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Organising Committee of the Gambia Football Federation (GFF) has dismissed a protest by Ali Sowe Football Club, w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united\" \/>\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=\"2025-08-01T17:25:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-01T18:22:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1754059367.685098.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"GFF Dismisses Ali Sowe Fc\u2019S Protest against Sibanor United\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-01T17:25:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-01T18:22:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united\"},\"wordCount\":234,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1754059367.685098.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gff-dismisses-ali-sowe-fcs-protest-against-sibanor-united\",\"name\":\"GFF Dismisses Ali Sowe Fc\u2019S Protest against Sibanor United - 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