Fatim Jawara, 19, drowned while trying to reach Lampedusa in Italy on one of two ships hit by a sudden storm
The teenage goalkeeper of the Gambia’s national women’s football team who drowned in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Italy told her family shortly before she died that she wanted to “follow her destiny” and play for a major European club “whatever the risks”.
Fatim Jawara, 19, was on board a boat that sank late last week when hit by a sudden storm during the crossing from Libya to Italy.
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