Gambia: Why Tom Deserves Being Retained As Gambia's Coach

The debate is on and sides have been taken. The topic boils around the future of Tom Saintfiet, a certain Belgian coach who'd just been tested by Gambia. So much was said in the lead up to his unveiling once it became public knowledge that he'd gotten picked for the managerial job and that terms have been finalised. Pundits ruminated about his statistics, his nomadic demeanour, globetrotting and selling his services even to countries that are rarely any footballing hotbeds, Malta for example. But with all his journeyman adventure, he sure gained experience from it especially in the Africa having stayed on the continent for over a decade -the more reason suggesting why he got a straight nod for the Scorpions job.

Coaches have timelines to meet and his was to qualify Gambia. He was assigned to effect task of spurring a Gambian team that has never, in its history, neared the corridors of the Total Africa Cup of Nations despite being to two youth World Cups.

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