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☆ Athletes passed out and 'could have died' when a plane full of pro soccer players lost cabin pressure and oxygen just after takeoff
  + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Read previewA plane carrying a national soccer team had to make an emergency landing Wednesday due to an oxygen shortage on board, The Gambia Football Federation said in a statement. The Gambia team's coach, Tom Saintfiet, told the BBC he believed the squad "could have died." "We all fell asleep because there was a lack of oxygen — some of the players couldn't be woken up," he added. But it couldn't take off again as the crew timed out because the soccer team had arrived four hours late at the airport, according to the airline. The Gambia squad returned to their hotel before flying to the Ivory Coast on a different plane, an Airbus A319, the following day.
Persons: —, Saidy Janko —, BSC Young Boys —, Tom Saintfiet Organizations: Service, Gambia Football Federation, Business, Air Côte d'Ivoire, Africa, Nations, Bombardier Dash, Swiss, BSC Young Boys, BBC, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Airbus, Senegal Locations: Africa, Gambia, Banjul, Ivory Coast
☆ African qualifier to go ahead in Marrakech despite deadly quake
  + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Mark Gleeson | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
However, Saturday's match between Morocco and Liberia in Agadir, some 260km away from the quake epicentre, has been postponed. The Congo and Gambia squads spent the night sleeping beside their respective hotel pools after the magnitude 7.2 quake that struck in Morocco's High Atlas mountains and damaged buildings in nearby Marrakech. The coaches of both teams said their players had been traumatised by the event but had been told they must go ahead with their match. Sunday’s Group G decider between Gambia and Congo is being played in Marrakech because Gambia do not have a suitable stadium for hosting international matches. “We have been told our match on Sunday must go ahead.
Persons: Tom Saintfiet, ”, ” Congo’s, Paul Put Organizations: of Nations, Sunday’s, Sunday, ”, Reuters, CAF, Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Confederation of African, Thomson Locations: CAPE, Congo, Marrakech, Morocco, Liberia, Agadir, Gambia, ” Gambia
☆ Africa’s World Cup: how a continent that usually underperforms finally got it right
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Alasdair Howorth | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +11 min
CNN —After the first round of games at the World Cup, an all too familiar script looked to be playing out for African football fans. Zaire was the first sub-Saharan nation to participate at the World Cup. But not only is this the most affordable World Cup for Africans, it is also the most accessible. It was a very big challenge for Brazil [in 2014].”Mohamed Kudus was the breakout star of Ghana's World Cup, scoring a brace against South Korea. That investment, along with a crop of stellar talent and Africa’s best coach, has catapulted Morocco to the World Cup semifinals.
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