Thursday 3 November 2016

Gambian goalkeeper who died in Mediterranean wanted to play for major club

Fatim Jawara,19, drowned while trying to reach Lampedusa, Italy, on one of two ships hit by 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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from Football | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2e5XVCD