{"id":86272,"date":"2025-09-19T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/banjul-united-player-dies"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:49:24","slug":"banjul-united-player-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/banjul-united-player-dies","title":{"rendered":"Banjul United Player Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Gambian football has been plunged into mourning after the death has been announced of Famara Jarju. Famara, who played for Banjul United Football Club, including the most recent season, died.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The striker once played for Immigration Football Club. The president of the Gambia Football Federation (GFF), Lamin Kaba Bajo, said Famara\u2019s demise is a huge loss, not only to Banjul United Football Club, but Gambian football in general.<\/p>\n<p>Bajo mourned the youthful exuberance of the late player who had high ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bajo extended his condolences to the management, staff and players of Banjul United Football Club, his family and friends.<\/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. Gambian football has been plunged into mourning after the death has been announced of Famara Jarju. Famara, who played for Banjul United Football Club, including the most recent season, died. The striker once played for Immigration Football Club. The president of the Gambia Football Federation (GFF), Lamin Kaba Bajo, said Famara\u2019s demise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":86271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-86272","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>Banjul United Player Dies - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gambian football has been plunged into mourning after the death has been announced of Famara Jarju. 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