By: Omar Jatta
The Gambian defender, Omar Colley is in brilliant form, having got off the mark for the second successive game in the Swedish First Tier League: Allsvenskan (which translates – The All Swedish) with the Stockholm based club Djurgåden on Thursday evening.
The 5 – 0 victory over bottom club Fakenberg is their second in the opening two games, following last weekend’s 2 – 0 victory over Örebro, which leaves them on top of the Swedish League table, level on points with JFK Goteborg and H-Södra.
Colley who was in the starting line-up for the second game, got off the mark in the 71st minute with a superb flick header from two yards out, after escaping his marker to make his near post run, and got off brilliantly to meet the corner from his team captain Kevin Walker. The goal put him to only three goals away from his all season tally of five goals last term.
The 23 year old Gambian is in a rich vein of form defensively in recent games for both club and country. Yesterday’s game with Djurgåden was his third clean sheet in row, having steered the Scorpions through a goalless draw against Mauritania last month, where he was also handed the captain arm band by the new Gambian coach, Sang Ndong.
Djurgården has a history of taking Gambian players and Colley is following in the footsteps of a host of former players including Aziz Corr Nyang and former Scorpions goalkeeper, Pa Dembo Touray who is held as a folk hero at the club, a club Legend short to say.
The Swedish football season has a different starting time to the other European nations due to the uncompromising winter weathers between November and March, thus the Allsvenskan season runs from late March or early April to the beginning of November, involving sixteen top tier clubs, all meeting each other twice, resulting in a 30-match season, for a total of 240 matches league-wide.
