Alagie Sarr (soccer coach)

Alagie Sarr
Personnel
place of birth	Gambia
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Gambia Ports Authority FC
1985-1986	Viktoria Aschaffenburg	1 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Gambia
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1990-1997	Mass Sosseh FC
1997-1998	Real de Banjul
2000-2005	Wallidan Banjul
2006-2007	Gambia Ports Authority FC
2007	Gambia
2008–	Sea View FC
1 Only league games are given.

Alagie Sarr (* unknown (possibly January 15, 1961 or December 11, 1963 or approx. 1953 ) in Gambia ; other spellings Alhaji, Alagi or Alhagie) is a Gambian football coach and former player. The national player was the first Gambian professional soccer player in Germany and is considered one of the most successful coaches in Gambian club soccer.

Player career

Sarr played in Gambia for Gambia Ports Authority FC and probably won the national championship with the club in 1982 and 1984. In the summer of 1985 he moved from Ports Authority to the German second division club Viktoria Aschaffenburg . For his only appearance in the 2nd Bundesliga , he came on September 28, 1985 as a substitute after 83 minutes in the 4-1 victory over SG Wattenscheid 09 . Nothing is known about his positions in the following years. In 1990 he started as a player-coach at Mass Sosseh FC .

As a national player , Sarr played in the two World Cup qualifiers against Ivory Coast in 1984 . After a 4-0 defeat in Abidjan, the 3-2 win in the second leg was no longer enough to advance to the next round.

Coaching career

At Mass Sosseh, Sarr worked as a coach until 1997, during which time he won the Gambian FA Cup in 1995. He then looked after Real de Banjul in 1997 and 1998 , before leading Wallidan Banjul to numerous successes from 2000 to 2005 . In addition to the championships in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005, the club won the state cup four times in a row between 2001 and 2004 and the national Super Cup three times between 2001 and 2003. From 2006 he was in charge of Gambia Ports Authority FC , which he led to the championship in his first season, followed in 2007 by successes in the Super Cup and the FA Cup. A respectable success also succeeded in the CAF Champions League 2007 , when the Ghanaian representative Asante Kotoko was eliminated in the first round. After his contract expired after the 2007 season, he signed a five-year contract for 2008 with Sea View FC . The club, actually relegated to the GFA League Second Division , benefited from the increase in the league to twelve teams for the 2008 season and remained first class. In 2010 Sarr won the Africell Eda Carr Pre-season Tourney with Sea View at the beginning of the season , but at the end of the season the club was bottom of the table and relegated to the Second Division.

In addition to his work as a club coach, Sarr has also been active in various coaching positions for the Gambian Football Association for many years . Between 1996 and 2000 he was assistant coach of the national team, in 1999 and 2000 he also looked after the three junior teams U-17, U-20 and U-23 in this role. In 2005 he was the main coach of the U-23 team at the preliminary round in the Amílcar Cabral Cup , in 2006 he failed as an interim coach with the Gambian U-17 selection in the first round of the African Championship qualification at Senegal. In 2008 he looked after the U-20s together with Pa Suwareh Faye at the first WAFU U-20 Championship , in which the Gambia failed in the preliminary round.

In 2007, as the successor to Antoine Hey , he was in charge of the Gambian senior national team on an interim basis in the 2-0 home game defeat against Guinea in qualifying for the 2008 African Cup of Nations .

With at least five championships and six cup wins, Sarr is one of the most successful and respected coaches in Gambian football.

successes

as a player

• Gambian master: 1982, 1984 (both presumed)

as a trainer
(presumably incomplete)

• Gambian champion: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
• Gambian Cup Winner: 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007
• Gambian Super Cup winner: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007
• Gambian League Cup Winner: 2003

Web links

• Profile published on March 14, 2008 in “The Point”

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kicker special edition Bundesliga 1985/86, p. 152
2. ↑ ^{a b} fussballdaten.de
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} wow.gm: Profile: Alhagie Sarr (March 14, 2008)
4. ↑ thepoint.gm: The History Of GPA Football Club (July 23, 2008)
5. ↑ fifa.com: Player profile Alagi Sarr  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ observer.gm: GPA in shock Conf Cup exit (March 3, 2008)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ wow.gm: Coach Alhagie Sarr's GPA Contract Nears Expiry (Nov. 19, 2007)
8. ↑ wow.gm: Coach Alhagie Sarr in Five Years Deal with Sea View (December 5, 2007)
9. ↑ thepoint.gm: We deserve to loose - Seaview coach Alagie Sarr (June 8, 2010)
10. ↑ thepoint.gm: U-17 Beat Serekunda East Selection 2-1 (Aug. 9, 2006)
11. ↑ observer.gm: Confusion over Gambia's head coachship (December 2nd, 2008)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ gambianow.com: In CAF 2008 Qualifiers, Guinea Conakry Trash Gambia 2-0 (March 26, 2007) ( Memento from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ observer.gm: Ports Authority name new coach (Dec. 4, 2007) ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
14. ↑ thepoint.gm: Commentary: Ghana 2008 - Our Destiny Is In Our Own Hands (April 10, 2007)