Insurers hoist up trophy |
An assorted football team of
insurance practitioners from various insurance companies on Friday, February
24, defeated Access Bank by 4-3 in a friendly match that ended in penalty
shootout.
An amateur goalkeeper for the
insurers saved two spot kicks to give his side a win over the much fancied
Access Bank side. The match, played at
the Father Gough sports complex in Manjai, saw both sides fail to take the
numerous goal-scoring opportunities created in regular time.
The insurers had mobilized
drummers to add up to their cheering fans but the final touch never brought the
much desired goals. The Access Bank team made intermittently wonderful
inter-change of passes, coming close on a few occasions, but the insurers put
too much fight for them.
Shortly after the match, which was
organized the Insurance Association of the Gambia, IAG as part of the event
marking “Insurance Awareness Week” (19th -25th February),
the insurers coach, Saihou Samba, said the aim of the match was to socialise
with partners to create room for better understanding between insurers, bankers
and the society.
Mr. Samba, who is the coordinator
of the IAG, said they choose to play against Access Bank because “we’ve seen
them won trophies”. But we’ve prove to them that we are stronger, he argued.
He thanked his assorted team for
defeating the bankers, even if it had to be realised only through penalty
shoot-out.
The Access Bank coach, Paul
Kwambana, blamed his team failure to trash the insurance practitioners on lack
of fitness. “We are still getting our
team together, they are yet to fully recover their fitness, when we are really
fit they (the insurers) are not our match,” Mr. Kwambana, Access Bank head of
compliance and internal control said. “I know we are going to meet them again,
very soon when my team is really fit and I am quite sure by that time we will
not go into penalties.”
He added that the banking industry
and the insurance industry have a lot in common “because we are both in the
financial sector” and they are our brothers. We really support their initiative
(insurance awareness week). It’s
something that is very important, so we are very proud to be associated with it
this year, he said.
The
IAG’s insurance awareness week is an annual sensitisation campaign that seeks
to further increase the general public’s understanding of insurance and
insurance policies in order to lay foundation for building a trusting
relationship between insurance providers and the public.
Author: Modou S. Joof
Twitter: (@Msjoof)
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