No Soccer in the Rain

caddisfly · Feb 5, 2003

The full article can be found here- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...573&u=/nm/20030205/od_nm/odd_gambia_soccer_dc

Jammeh, a bird-loving former wrestler who seized power in a 1994 coup, said on a meet-the-people tour that Gambia's young needed to work to make the West African country self-sufficient in food, rather than kicking a soccer ball around.

"Youths in rural areas should not involve themselves with football in the coming rainy season (June to October). Failure to do so and I will send them to jail. I mean it," Jammeh said on his tour of the West African country.

Gambia's 1.25 million people survive on tourism, fishing and groundnuts.
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Ictar · Feb 6, 2003

Oy vey, that sucks. A lot of the guys at my college who I used to play with (haven't in a while) are from Gambia and will probably go home for the summer. Wonder what they will think?