{"id":264769,"date":"2016-11-03T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=264769"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:27:07","slug":"gambia-goalkeeper-dies-trying-to-reach-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=264769","title":{"rendered":"Gambia goalkeeper dies trying to reach Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The 19-year-old goalkeeper of Gambia&#8217;s national women&#8217;s football team has drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Fatim Jawara was on board a boat that ran into trouble last month while crossing from Libya to Europe, the country&#8217;s football association says.<\/p>\n<p>Her family confirmed news of her death, according to association president Lamin Kaba Bajo.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the undocumented migrants who arrive in Italy are Gambians.<\/p>\n<p>Jawara made her debut with the women&#8217;s side a year ago, after playing in the national junior team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She will be remembered for saving a penalty kick in a friendly encounter involving the national soccer team and the Glasgow Girls from Scotland,&#8221; Mr Bajo told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,300 migrants fleeing conflict and poverty have died in the Mediterranean this year, <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iom.int\/news\/mediterranean-migrant-arrivals-2016-172458-deaths-714\">figures from the International Organization for Migration<\/a> (IOM) show.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/16B4C\/production\/_92240039_gambia.jpg\" alt=\"A tweet containing picture of the Gambian goalkeeper who died in the Mediterranean trying to get to Europe.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 19-year-old goalkeeper of Gambia&#8217;s national women&#8217;s football team has drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe. Fatim Jawara was on board a boat that ran into trouble last month while crossing from Libya to Europe, the country&#8217;s football association says. Her family confirmed news of her death, according to association president Lamin Kaba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[13339,396,13340,2749],"class_list":["post-264769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-fatim-jawara","tag-football","tag-gambia-goalkeeper","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}