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Gambian football player and manager

Choro Mbenga
Personal information
Place of birth The Gambia
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
? Red Scorpions FC [de]
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 [de], and assistant coach of the Gambia women's national football team.

Personal

Choro Mbenga's brother Des Samba was a coach and manager at Red Scorpions FC [de], and was later head of women's football for the Gambia Football Association (now the Gambia Football Federation) for two non-consecutive terms.

Career

Mbenga played for Gambian team Red Scorpions FC as a goalkeeper. In 2011, Mbenga hosted a Confederation of African Football women's football coaching course in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From 2014–15, she was the Gambia Football Federation's women's football co-ordinator. Whilst in the role, she organised Gambia's first women's football festival, for girls aged between 6 and 12 in Yundum.

Mbenga has worked as head coach of Red Scorpions FC, and as an assistant coach of the Gambia women's national football team, and the Gambia women's national under-17 football team. She is the only Gambian woman with a FIFA B grade licence. She led the Red Scorpians to second place in the 2009 Division One League Championship. In 2016, Mbenga and her assistant Dodou Faye were suspended for attacking a referee. She was a coach of Gambian and Red Scorpians footballer Fatim Jawara, who died in 2016 after trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Mbenga also guided Red Scorpions to the 2019 Division One League Championship.

References

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  2. "GFF Regional Elections Update". Standard.gm. 2 May 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
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  4. "Gambian football coach set for CAF coaching course in Addis Ababa". The Point. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  5. "Choro Mbenga Resigns". Standard.gm. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  6. "Gambia: Choro Mbenga Dismisses GFF Presidential Aspirations". The Daily Observer. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2021 – via AllAfrica.
  7. "Gambia FA leads initiative to promote girls' participation in football". Fare Net. 30 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. "Gambia: Choro Mbenga Thanks Fans for Their Support". The Daily Observer. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2021 – via AllAfrica.
  10. "Choro Mbenga: Crouch's Departure a Big Loss". The Point. 20 January 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  11. "GFF suspends players and officials". The Point. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  12. "Red Scorpions Take Female Title". Standard.gm. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2021.


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