By Essa Bah
The Gambian international Assan Ceesay, who scored the nation’s qualifying goal against Angola said ‘I wonder what I would have been if I was not a footballer’ as he shared his footballing career with The Voice Sports.
Striker Ceesay who also plays for Zurich football club said: “’I started playing football during my school days, playing in the streets and Sokor Academy in Banjul is what helped me the most when I was rising,”
He stated that he has played in Nawetan and Zonal after that he went to Gamtel, while in Gamtel he was selected by the U-17 and that’s where the journey started for him.
He said he always believe in himself and believe in the quality, too, while heaped praises on all those who helped him grow as it is always tough coming from the Gambia to be an elite footballer.
“Many football fans when growing up mostly have an elite club they support and since I was a child, I have been a Liverpool fan and still I am,” he said,
He said it would be a dream come true if he were to sign for the Reds but said he is as well happy at Zurich because they are helping him growing.
On the name of Torres, he said: “Torres name came from one of my friend call Ousman Touray he is the one who give me the Torres name, because when Liverpool signed Torres he said to me, now I will call you Torres because you play like him and you are a striker like him.”
“Now his Torres name is famous both in The Gambia and the outside world, as he is notching goals both at club and country level,” he continued.
Assan Ceesay one of The Gambia’s most lethal striker and top scorer with six goals advised his national team mates saying: “now we have qualified we should show the people that we are a team that believe in our dreams and will always keep going.”
“We will work hard and we believe at AFCON we will do something surprising because we have a talented squad,” he said, while hoping to win many individual and collective awards and score many goals to break records.”
He said he is yet to win a trophy but with hope he will win some trophies both at national and club levels.