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The Most Famous

SOCCER PLAYERS from The Gambia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Gambian Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 16,880 Soccer Players, 4 of which were born in The Gambia. This makes The Gambia the birth place of the 125th most number of Soccer Players behind Liechtenstein and Malta.

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Gambian Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Gambian Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Musa Barrow (1998 - )

With an HPI of 30.86, Musa Barrow is the most famous Gambian Soccer Player.  Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.

Musa Barrow (born 14 November 1998) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Pro League club Al Taawoun and the Gambia national team.

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2. Omar Colley (1992 - )

With an HPI of 29.83, Omar Colley is the 2nd most famous Gambian Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Omar Colley (born 24 October 1992) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş and captains the Gambia national team.

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3. Momodou Ceesay (1988 - )

With an HPI of 27.09, Momodou Ceesay is the 3rd most famous Gambian Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Momodou Ceesay (born 24 December 1988) is a Gambian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Gambia national team internationally.

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4. Modou Barrow (1992 - )

With an HPI of 20.21, Modou Barrow is the 4th most famous Gambian Soccer Player.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Modou Barrow (born 13 October 1992) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays for Sivasspor on loan from Al-Ahli and the Gambia national team. He is a winger but can also play as a forward. He grew up in Sweden where he played for several senior clubs. In 2014, he signed for Swansea City of the Premier League. After loans to three Championship clubs, he transferred to Reading in 2017. Barrow made his international debut for the Gambia national team in 2015.

Pantheon has 4 people classified as soccer players born between 1988 and 1998. Of these 4, 4 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living soccer players include Musa Barrow, Omar Colley, and Momodou Ceesay. As of April 2022, 1 new soccer players have been added to Pantheon including Omar Colley.

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