A Soccer Star Caught in Poverty, a Risky Trip, and a Sorrowful End
SEREKUNDA, Gambia — The pregame warm-up for the Red Scorpions, Gambia’s top women’s soccer team, used to begin with joyful singing and dancing. But now the players in their yellow shirts and blue shorts begin every match in a somber prayer circle under the shade of a baobab tree. Three months ago, the team’s star goalkeeper, Fatima Jawara, 19,…