FIFA Trio bring “Goodies” to Gambian Football Three FIFA development officers, who arrived in the Gambia on Monday, wrapped up their three day visit with a media briefing on Wednesday at the GFF secretariat in Kanifing. The trio are Francesco Bruscoli, head of FIFA development Programme for Africa, Sampong J Kablan, FIFA development officer for West Africa and Francis Adu an expert in FIFA Transfer Management System (TMS). Speaking at the press briefing, Mr Francesco Bruscoli said FIFA supports its member associations in development of football by developing their capacity and building of infrastructures because without these it will be difficult to run Football. “The technical supports we are talking about is how to develop grassroots football and women football particularly , and lately we are working on capacity building meaning to support Associations in the administration so that they can have a functional admin officers on the ground that can carry out the task of the member association. The reason why I have never come to The Gambia before is that Gambia has been going through unstable situation and trouble within the federation, and I believe lot of work has been done during the past 18 months of the crisis which I followed at a distant” he said. He added that his Coming to The Gambia is to see how they can help to develop Gambian football. He pointed out that he had a fruitful discussion with the GFF President Mustapha Kebbeh when he came to Zurich couple of weeks ago on how they can work together, and he had a very good meeting with FIFA President and other executive members and also had a interview with FIFA TV . “ We told FiFa that the new face of development has come to Gambian football, but we all agree that ,with the executive committee of FIFA that there is a lot to do in Gambian football and the challenges are numerous starting from infrastructure within the country and also in the administrative aspect they need to fill in with competent people. We know some people are there but we know some positions need to be filed and we will try to support the federation to fill them .Our visit was purposely to see and hear from the new executive, and see some of the FIFA Projects like the Win In Africa, For Africa Project in Brikama, the FIFA Goal Project and the technical Center in Yundum” he said. On the issue of the technical Training center, Mr Francesco acknowledged that it is in a poor condition and need maintenance too. “This are some of the things which are going to be our priorities when we go back to present our proposal to the FIFA development committee for support during their next meeting in February” he revealed. In terms of infrastructure FIFA envoy revealed that he visited some football pitches in the greater Banjul area, but was quick to said that they are in poor condition and are not up to standard to play Football except the pitch at Brikama Mini Stadium which was built by FIFA. Also addressing the press Mr Sampon J KABLAN said they came with Francis Adu from Ghana who is an IT Experts working with FIFA on TMS. Mr Kablan challenged Gambian journalists to be more productive in their reports. “You should criticize but it should be productive criticisms as you and the Federation are partners in development. But that should not stop you of challenging the Federation if you see something is not going right” he advised. Mr Borry Darboe, member of GFF Executive committee also spoke at the media briefing.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:11:21 +0000
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