{"id":84124,"date":"2025-08-15T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria"},"modified":"2025-08-15T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:45:36","slug":"deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Gambia Deaf Sports Association is frantically working to raise money to buy air tickets for its 25- man national football team to Nigeria, to participate in the West African Deaf football championship starting on the 18 August. The championship will start with athletics and proceeds with football which is where The Gambia is expected to feature.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lamin Ceesay president of the Deaf Sports Association said his team has received D1 million from the Ministry of Sports but is only enough to cater for their stay in tournament and not airfares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appealing to good Gambian people, companies and businesses to come to air assistance to be able to play in the tournament,\u201d Ceesay, who is also the vice president of the West African Deaf football body, appealed.<\/p>\n<p>The association can be contacted on 772 8092.<\/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 Gambia Deaf Sports Association is frantically working to raise money to buy air tickets for its 25- man national football team to Nigeria, to participate in the West African Deaf football championship starting on the 18 August. The championship will start with athletics and proceeds with football which is where The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":84123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-84124","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>Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Gambia Deaf Sports Association is frantically working to raise money to buy air tickets for its 25- man national ...\" \/>\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\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Gambia Deaf Sports Association is frantically working to raise money to buy air tickets for its 25- man national ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria\" \/>\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=\"2025-08-15T18:18:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T18:45:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.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=\"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\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-15T18:18:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-15T18:45:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria\"},\"wordCount\":155,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria\",\"name\":\"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria - Gambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-15T18:18:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-15T18:45:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Gambia Deaf Sports Association is frantically working to raise money to buy air tickets for its 25- man national ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\",\"name\":\"Gambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria - Gambia","description":"The Gambia Deaf Sports Association is frantically working to raise money to buy air tickets for its 25- man national ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria","og_description":"The Gambia Deaf Sports Association is frantically working to raise money to buy air tickets for its 25- man national ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria","og_site_name":"Gambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2025-08-15T18:18:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-08-15T18:45:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria","datePublished":"2025-08-15T18:18:07+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-15T18:45:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria"},"wordCount":155,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg","keywords":["Gambia"],"articleSection":["all news","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria","name":"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria - Gambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg","datePublished":"2025-08-15T18:18:07+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-15T18:45:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Gambia Deaf Sports Association is frantically working to raise money to buy air tickets for its 25- man national ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/sm_1755270686.106501.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/deaf-football-team-appeals-for-air-tickets-to-nigeria#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Deaf Football Team Appeals for Air Tickets to Nigeria"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/","name":"Gambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}