Fatim Jawara

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Fatim Jawara
Personnel
birthday March 10, 1997
place of birth Dippa Kunda ,  Gambia
date of death October 27, 2016
Place of death Mediterranean Sea ,  Libya
position Goalkeeper
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2011-2016 Red Scorpions 0
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2009 Gambia U-17
2015-2016 Gambia
1 Only league games are given.

Fatim Jawara (born March 10, 1997 in Dippa Kunda , Kanifing Municipal ; † October 27, 2016 in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy ) was a Gambian national soccer player .

family

She was born the youngest of 20 children. Her father was an imam and had three wives. Her mother was the third wife.

Career

society

Jawara started playing soccer with the boys when she was a little girl. She started her career in Gambia with the Red Scorpions , where she was promoted to the senior team in 2011. She was in goal for the Red Scorpions club from Kanifing Municipal until autumn 2016. At times she was loaned to teams in Senegal and Morocco .

National team

Jawara took part with the Gambian U-17 national team in the U-17 Women's World Cup in 2012 , but was not used during the tournament. For participating in the U-17 soccer world championship, she received 100,000 Dalasi , around 2,300 euros , from then President Yahya Jammeh . She uses the money to build a small three-room house. Around three years later in 2015, Jawara made his debut in the Gambian senior women's team , in a friendly in Glasgow, Scotland .

death

At the end of September 2016, Jawara fled her homeland, Gambia. She was a fan of Bayern Munich and wanted to go to Germany . Her path led through the Sahara and then to Libya . End of October continued Jawara as boat people fleeing from Tripoli to Lampedusa away and drowned 2016. October 27 About her death reported numerous international media such as The Mirror , BBC , El Mundo , The Guardian and Washington Post .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gambian goalie Jawara dies while crossing to Europe by boat in: Naij.com on November 2, 2016, accessed on November 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Fatim Jawara from Gambia drowned while fleeing in the Mediterranean. Spiegel, November 2, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Dialik Neufeld, Ricci Shryock: Fatim Traum . Der Spiegel 9/2017, pp. 128–131
  4. ↑ Gambia Goalkeeper Fatim Jawara Dies Crossing the Mediterranean Sea
  5. ↑ Gambia national player dies traveling to Europe by boat
  6. ↑ Fatim Jawara in the database of FIFA (English)
  7. ^ Jawara made her debut for the national team, known as the Scorpions, a year ago in a friendly against a team from Glasgow.
  8. ↑ Migrants: la gardienne de l'équipe de foot de Gambie meurt en Méditerranée
  9. ↑ Gambian national goalkeeper drowned in the Mediterranean
personal data
SURNAME Jawara, Fatim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Dippa Kunda
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2016
Place of death Mediterranean Sea