Gambia: Amos Scores in First Start of Season

The Daily Observer (Banjul)

Babucarr Camara

27 June 2011

Hawks football club will return to the top flight of Gambian football for the 2012 campaign exactly a year after suffering a heartbreaking relegation to the second tier.

Gambian striker Amadou Jawo could be set to stay with his Swedish league Allsvenskan side Elfsborg after all following his impressive performance in his first start of the season for the club. The younger sibling of Gambian international defender Omar Jawo scored his side’s only goal as the club missed the chance to go joint top of the Allsvenskan table when they were held to a 1-1 draw at IFK Goteborg.

The former leaders took the lead through Amadou Jawo better known as Amos in Sweden just before the half-hour but Hannes Stiller equalised with 20 minutes to go for a share of the spoils. Jawo is been linked with several of Sweden’s top tier clubs and also out of the Scandinavian country after he got frustrated with his lack of playing time at the Boras Arena this season.

But despite the game between his side and Goteborg been surrounded by a lot of hype due to the nature of the clubs and with their recent history of being Allsvenskan powerhouses, Jawo was trusted by the Elfsborg coach to give him his first start of the season and even though it wasn’t a perfect ending on a collective basis, it was nonetheless a happy moment for the Gambian to score on a debut start for a season.

Unfortunately for the fans, this amounted to what we had before the game and nothing more: namely hype. In his first game from start this season, Amadou Jawo scored the opening goal in a back and forth midfield battle that IFK was able to tie up at one a piece through an equalizing header from Hannes Stiller in the seventieth minute. It was a disappointing showing from both clubs given what their real potential always is or should be.

Elsewhere in the top flight of Swedish football, Omar Jawo was suspended following his sending off at Djurgarden last weekend but his club Syrianska finally won a game as they beat Mjällby 3-1 at home. After the game a somewhat ill-tempered (but isn’t he always?) Tobias Grahn said that they were going to need at least three or four new players.

And finally, the resurgence for defender Kebba Ceesay and goalkeeper Pa Dembo Touray’s Djurgarden IF continues following a third successive win with a 2-1 triumph at Orebro to move completely out of the relegation zone. The Gambian duo both played the whole game.

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