By Alpha Abu
The Executive of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has appointed Umar Bah as Team Manager of the home based Leone Stars.
Former Leone Stars player unhappy
By Alpha Abu
The former skipper of the Sierra Leone’s male national football team Leone Stars who was dropped from the side after the AfCON in Cameroon this year, has openly expressed his anger at the way he was treated.
Umaru Bangura commonly called Zaingaylay seen in a video being interviewed, clearly criticised the way he felt being stripped of the captaincy and dropped from the squad that is presently competing for a place in AfCON 2023 to be held in Ivory Coast.
Sport Commentary: Leone Stars’ missed opportunity
By Amjata Bayoh
Sierra Leoneans are still struggling to forget Kei Kamara’s penalty miss against Equatorial Guinea which ended Leone Stars journey at the Africa Nations Cup in Cameroon in January 2022 – the country’s first appearance at the tourney in over 25 years. Their only hope is that joy will return in Ivory Coast in 2023. As things stand, that is a very tall order to achieve. Here is why:
Leone stars in home draw against Guinea Bissau
By Alpha Abu
National football side Leone Stars failed to capitalise on 10 man Guinea Bissau side to draw 2-2 in Conakry where Sierra Leone is hosting its matches for the 2023 AfCON qualifying group stage, as the stadium in Freetown undergoes an extensive renovation and some reconstruction.
Leone Stars defeated in Nigeria
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
Sierra Leone’s national football team yesterday suffered defeat away to Nigeria in their opening group A qualifier of the African Cup of Nations.
Jonathan Morsay for Leone stars scored in the 11th minute after receiving a decent assist from inform striker Musa ‘Tombo’ Kamara. The goal of Morsay was short lived when Nigeria’s, Alexander Iwobi equalised in the 16th minute. In the 41st minutes of play, Victor Osimhen who plays for Napoli scored to put Eagles in the lead 2-1.
SLFA President Clocks One Year in Office
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), Thomas Daddy Brima has on the 6th June, 2022 clocked exactly a year in office.
In a radio talk show he highlighted some of the gains he has made before and after assuming office as president of the association.
He spoke of the in-fighting that preceded him and how his coming changed all that.
‘’So it would be ideal to bring in a new person that will bring in everybody onboard for the love of the game,’’ he said.
NSA director dropped from AfCON delegation
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Director of Participation and Sustainable Sports at the National Sports Authority (NSA) has been dropped from Sierra Leone’s delegation to Nigeria and the Republic of Guinea for the start of the country’s AfCON 2023 campaign against Nigeria and Guinea Bissau respectively.
