Sports

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

East End Lions were stunned on Thursday afternoon by league minnows Anti-Drugs, when they were beaten 1-0 in Freetown.

Mohamed Koroma’s 33-minute goal was enough to win the match for Anti-Drugs.

This is their second win of the season; the win has now given them 8 points after 6 games.

The match was played at the Approved school.

The Lions will go back, lick their wounds and prepare to face Bo Rangers next week at the Siaka Steven Stadium.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

FC Kallon have set sight on winning ahead of a crucial encounter with FC Johansen. The two clubs will face each other in Wednesday in what has been described as beautiful exhibition for football.

FC Kallon and FC Johansen are both known for flair and attacking football. This season the two sides are a sharp contrast to each other. Whiles FC Kallon is chasing the pack at the top, FC Johansen is still struggling to get their first win and establish a distance between them and the bottom.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

 Kamboi Eagles defeated Mighty Blackpool 1-0 in Kenema to go five games in the league without conceding a goal. This means they have now played (7hrs 30 minutes (450 minutes) of football without conceding a goal.

Eagles are flying high on top of the table with 13 points. Head Coach of the team, Alhaji Foray told Politico that their rigidity at the back is a result of a long-term work that he has put in to training and personnel recruitment.

By Francis H. Murray

Seven Sierra Leonean referees have been given badges of accreditation by football’s world governing body, FIFA. The badges were presented to the seven men in Freetown at a ceremony by the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA).

The accreditation process is an annual process that involves reviewing the performance and capacity of referees globally. Six of the seven men were accredited last year.

East End Lions v Freetown City FC

East End Lions have won their last two games. They won against Old Edwardians and Central Parade. For a team like Lions’ caliber you will feel that they are now picking up momentum to launch their title run.

On paper this game should be an easy one for them, but FCFC will have a lot to say about that. They themselves secured their first win of the season against FC Johansen last week.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The Sierra Leone female Beach Volleyball team has left for Guinea on Tuesday to launch their 2020 Tokyo Olympics campaign.

The nine-man delegation are set to participate in the Zone 2 Olympic qualifiers. The country will compete against Mali, Gambia, Guinea, Cape Verde.

Sierra Leone will need to finish at least second to qualify to the next phase of qualifiers. Maria G. Fofana and Francess Lansana have been named in team one and Fatmata Binta Bah and Bernadette Fofanah have been named in team two.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

FC Johansen, Mighty Blackpool and Central Parade are the only teams in the Sierra Leone Premier League that have failed to register a win this season. This failure has led to more pressure on the coaches in charge of these teams.

Last season some teams in this league sacked up to a dozen coaches. This shows you that this is a league where club executives are known to be impatient. Teams like Bo Rangers, Old Edwardians and Mighty Blackpool fired a total of six coaches - two each.