Babou Sowe
| Babou Sowe | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | 1935 or 1936 | |
| date of death | January 29, 2015 | |
| Place of death | Banjul , | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1955-1956 | Rainbow Bathurst | ? (?) |
| 1956-1958 | Blackpool Kanifing | ? (?) |
| 1958-1959 | Starling Bathurst | ? (?) |
| 1959-1973 | Augustian's Bathurst | ? (?) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1966-1973 | Gambia | ? (?) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Alh. Babou Sowe (* 1935 or 1936 ; † January 29, 2015 in Banjul ) was a Gambian football player and artist.
Life
Babou Sowe was the third son of Alh. Sulay Sowe, a well-known and respected businessman from Hagan Street in Bathurst (now Banjul ), a peanut trader from Fatoto in the Upper River Division .
Athletic career
He began club soccer when he played as a center-forward on the St. Mary's School team in 1953. Until the end of 1954 he was the captain of the school team. In the 1950s he played at the Rainbow Bathurst, Blackpool Kanifing and Starling Bathurst clubs. From 1959 he was with the Augustians Bathurst (or Augustinians ) in the squad and was there until 1973. He is also said to have played in the Walidan Football Club , which he gave the name Walidan in 1969. He also played for the Gambian national soccer team for several years from 1966 . In 1965 he was selected in this team for his first international match against Guinea-Bissau . When he retired from active football, he became the coach of the junior national team, which won the gold cup and gold medals for perseverance and discipline at the regional football championships that year; making him the first team manager / coach to bring gold medals to the country.
Sowe was a member of the Association of Football Veterans and has been a member of the Association's Executive Committee for several years. He was consecutively zone master in boxing for BANJUL CENTRAL in 1957 and 1958, finalist in 1960 and served as treasurer on the first executive committee of the National Boxing Federation when it was founded in 1993. This sporty all-rounder also had something to do with cycling: from 1960 to 1963 he was club champion in cycling and competed for the Banjul Roxy Vous Club. He was also on his club's 4 x 100 meter athletics relay, which won several trophies at the MacCarthy Square event .
As President of Roxy Vous, the first organized beauty pageant was held in Gambia in 1963. Miss Banjul was the first organized beauty pageant in The Gambia in 1963 when Sowe was President of Roxy Vous, and that competition was won by Miss Joanna Jahumpa of what was then Hagan Street.
Artistic career
Sowe was a soccer player and artist and represented Gambia on many occasions in cultural activities abroad. He was a member of the Banjul Drama club, then the National Drama. He contributed to the development of the culture and was the host of the famous weekly program "Banjul Demba" which aired every Wednesday afternoon at 4pm on West Coast Radio . Ref name = "thepoint20150130" />
Sowe died at the age of 79 in the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul. Hundreds of people attended his funeral and burial at Old Jeshwang cemetery.
Awards and honors
- 2001: Induction into the Sports Hall of Fame
- 2015: Award of the Sports Journalists' Association of The Gambia (SJAG) (posthumous)
Web links
- Babou Sowe in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d George F. Gomez : Tribute to the Late Alhaji BABOU SOWE. In: thepoint.gm. The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia, February 2, 2015, archived from the original on March 15, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Halimatou Ceesay: Alhaji Babou Sowe passes away. In: thepoint.gm. The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia, January 30, 2015, archived from the original on June 29, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ TGG Senghore: Tribute to the Late Alhaji Babou Sowe. In: thepoint.gm. The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia, February 9, 2015, archived from the original on March 15, 2015 ; accessed on August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Adama K. Jallow: SJAG stages 6th annual award ceremony. In: thepoint.gm. The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia, April 13, 2015, archived from the original on September 4, 2019 ; accessed on August 3, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sowe, Babou |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Gambian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 or 1936 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2015 |
| Place of death | Banjul |