{"id":5944,"date":"2017-10-21T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5944"},"modified":"2017-10-21T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T16:06:03","slug":"the-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-gambia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Gambia &#8211; Home &#8211; 2017<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4609-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4609-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4609.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nAn enclave of Senegal, The Gambia has never qualified for a major tournament. It has withdrawn from qualification for AFCON on three separate occasions, and from World Cup qualification once. They also been banned twice (for withdrawing in 1996, and later for falsifying players&#8217; ages).<br \/>\nThis is a match worn Gambia shirt which was worn in a friendly against Ghana in June 2017. Later in the year they met in the WAFU tournament where Ghana won 1-0 with a penalty in the 10th minute of stoppage time. It&#8217;s safe to say the the Gambians weren&#8217;t too happy with the referee.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4610-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4610-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4610.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4612-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4612-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4612.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4611-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4611-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF4611.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambia &#8211; Home &#8211; 2017 An enclave of Senegal, The Gambia has never qualified for a major tournament. It has withdrawn from qualification for AFCON on three separate occasions, and from World Cup qualification once. They also been banned twice (for withdrawing in 1996,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-gambia\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  The Gambia<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballshirtworld.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}