Sports

By Alpha Abu

Sierra Leone football has suffered another setback after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Saturday 27 February 2021, banning the use of the Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown for international matches including the pending African Cup of Nations home tie against Benin.

The Sierra Leone Football Association SLFA has postponed its Elective Congress originally scheduled for the end of this month in the northern headquarter town of Makeni without stating a new date for the long-awaited Congress.

According to a statement issued by the body, the decision to suspend the Congress was taken after reviewing the work of their judicial bodies so far and correspondences from the National Sports Authority (NSA) and the world football governing body, FIFA.

Top Sierra Leone Premier League club Bo Rangers are threatening to institute action against Abu Komeh, formerly of FC Kallon “before the relevant judicial bodies in the event the player continues to be recalcitrant”by not honoring his contract with them.

By Alpha Abu          

The main challenger in the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Presidential race, Rodney Michael has told Politico that having gone through the provisional eligibility scrutiny by the Electoral Committee of the Association he had no reason to be dissatisfied with the electoral process.

By Alpha Abu

Former Leone Stars captain Mohamed Kallon and seven other men have lost their appeal against the rejection of their nominations by the Secretariat of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA).

The Western Area Football Association (WAFA) has announced the postponement of its first and second division leagues. A statement from WAFA says  matches would have started yesterday but have to be put on hold because of the decision by officials of NACOVERC last Thursday that games be played behind closed doors, in a bid to stem the latest spike in covid-19 confirmed cases especially in the Western Area. The Association took the decision to avoid the economic implications that it says clubs were likely to face playing under such a restriction.

By Alpha Abu

For over seven years now football administration in Sierra Leone has been dogged by intrigue and unending rift amongst people who were supposed to ensure that sanity reigns in the game. People who much was expected of  whether by omission or commission stifled the progress of the game by inventing counter-productive measures or resorting to sometimes crude destructive tactics to bury the ambitions of perceived opponents just to maintain the status quo.