{"id":87309,"date":"2025-10-04T18:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:53:10","slug":"gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament","title":{"rendered":"Gambia U-17 Arrive in Mali Ahead of WAFU-A Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Gambia U-17 team has landed at Modibo Keita International Airport in Mali ahead of their WAFU-A tournament opener against Guinea-Bissau on Sunday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Head coach Yahya Manneh\u2019s squad is in Mali to compete in this year\u2019s edition of the WAFU-A CAF U-17 AFCON qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Gambia Football Federation (GFF), the Baby Scorpions were warmly received upon arrival at Hotel I\u2019Amitie in Bamako, where they will be based for the duration of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s preparations are boosted by the addition of goalkeeping coach and former Gambian international Alagie Modou Jobe, popularly known as Toldo. He joined the squad along with captain Alieu Drammeh of FC Barcelona and Ahmed Njundu Kanyi of Sporting Supreme of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trio arrived last evening and joined the team as trainer Bakary Sanyang led a light session to activate muscles ahead of the first full training session later in the day,\u201d the GFF said.<\/p>\n<p>The squad is expected to be completed with the arrival of Barak Lamin Munhenk Manneh of SV Curslack Neugamme FC of Germany, who will join the team later.<\/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 U-17 team has landed at Modibo Keita International Airport in Mali ahead of their WAFU-A tournament opener against Guinea-Bissau on Sunday. Head coach Yahya Manneh\u2019s squad is in Mali to compete in this year\u2019s edition of the WAFU-A CAF U-17 AFCON qualifiers. According to the Gambia Football Federation (GFF), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":87308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-87309","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>Gambia U-17 Arrive in Mali Ahead of WAFU-A Tournament - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Gambia U-17 team has landed at Modibo Keita International Airport in Mali ahead of their WAFU-A tournament opener ...\" \/>\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\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gambia U-17 Arrive in Mali Ahead of WAFU-A Tournament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Gambia U-17 team has landed at Modibo Keita International Airport in Mali ahead of their WAFU-A tournament opener ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament\" \/>\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=\"2025-10-04T18:43:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-04T19:53:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/sm_1759594962.905095.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\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gambia U-17 Arrive in Mali Ahead of WAFU-A Tournament\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-04T18:43:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-04T19:53:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament\"},\"wordCount\":205,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/sm_1759594962.905095.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-u-17-arrive-in-mali-ahead-of-wafu-a-tournament\",\"name\":\"Gambia U-17 Arrive in Mali Ahead of WAFU-A Tournament - 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