Choro Mbenga
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | The Gambia | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| ? | Red Scorpions FC | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| ?–present | Red Scorpions FC | ||
| ? | Gambia U-17 (assistant coach) | ||
| ?–present | Gambia (assistant coach) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Choro Mbenga is a Gambian football coach and former player, who is the current manager of Gambian team Red Scorpions FC, and assistant coach of the Gambia women's national football team.
Personal
[edit]Choro Mbenga's brother Des Samba was a coach and manager at Red Scorpions FC, and was later head of women's football for the Gambia Football Association (now the Gambia Football Federation) for two non-consecutive terms.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Mbenga played for Gambian team Red Scorpions FC as a goalkeeper.[3] In 2011, Mbenga hosted a Confederation of African Football women's football coaching course in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[4] From 2014–15, she was the Gambia Football Federation's women's football co-ordinator.[5][6] Whilst in the role, she organised Gambia's first women's football festival, for girls aged between 6 and 12 in Yundum.[7]
Mbenga has worked as head coach of Red Scorpions FC,[8] and as an assistant coach of the Gambia women's national football team,[3] and the Gambia women's national under-17 football team.[9] She is the only Gambian woman with a FIFA B grade licence.[3] She led the Red Scorpians to second place in the 2009 Division One League Championship.[10] In 2016, Mbenga and her assistant Dodou Faye were suspended for attacking a referee.[11] She was a coach of Gambian and Red Scorpians footballer Fatim Jawara, who died in 2016 after trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.[8] Mbenga also guided Red Scorpions to the 2019 Division One League Championship.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "GFA Female Football Gets New Chairman". Africa.gm. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "GFF Regional Elections Update". Standard.gm. 2 May 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "Eine deutsche Trainerin auf Mission in Gambia" (in German). Deutschlandfunk Kultur. 12 July 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Gambian football coach set for CAF coaching course in Addis Ababa". The Point. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Choro Mbenga Resigns". Standard.gm. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Gambia: Choro Mbenga Dismisses GFF Presidential Aspirations". The Daily Observer. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2021 – via AllAfrica.
- ^ "Gambia FA leads initiative to promote girls' participation in football". Fare Net. 30 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ a b "After soccer star risked all for Europe, Gambia still wrestles with why she left". The Christian Science Monitor. 27 December 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Gambia: Choro Mbenga Thanks Fans for Their Support". The Daily Observer. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2021 – via AllAfrica.
- ^ "Choro Mbenga: Crouch's Departure a Big Loss". The Point. 20 January 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "GFF suspends players and officials". The Point. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Red Scorpions Take Female Title". Standard.gm. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
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