Sports

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

Fans of Kamboi Eagles football club in Kenema, are celebrating their team's capture of this year's FA cup after defeating favourites East End Lions from Freetown by 3 goals to 2 at the Bo stadium last weekend.

The fans were packed in a fleet of cars and on hundreds of motorbikes about seven miles outside Kenema at a place called Bandama Checkpoint where they received they returning heroes before driving into the town.

By Kemoh Sesay

The former Captain of the national football team Mohamed Kallon has been awarded as the all time African highest goal scorer in Italian football.  Kallon said he felt honoured among fellow players like El-Haji Diouf, KaliluFadigaandAboubacarrTitiCamara, at a ceremony organized by TV 5 and other renowned French Sports journalists in Africa.

By Kemoh Sesay

The Managing Director of the Sport-betting company, Mercury International has said that grassroots football in Sierra Leone generates a lot of "passionate"’ amongst people in the country especially the young.

By Zainab Joaque

Osman Charlie, the winner of the 2014 Sierra Leone Marathon, has said that he ran for his fellow street kids, and that he was able to feed off the crowd’s energy as they chanted his name.

When Information and Communication Minister Alpha Kanu handed him the trophy, Charlie said “I have won for the kids in the street, having also grown up in the street and fending for myself, I want to give back everything I have for them.”

By Kemoh Sesay

Division One (I) side Edmond Michael Foundation says it has withdrawn its "consent as a club" for the SLFA-appointed coach of the national Under-20 team, Shooting Stars, "to carry on as head coach...under such circumstances where we now have two different sets of technical teams for the national Under - 20s, one appointed the ministry and one by the FA".

All roads lead to the southern city of Bo on Sunday 25th May for the final of the Leocem - sponsored FA Cup between East End Lions from the Western Area and Kamboi Eagles from the Eastern headquarter town of Kenema.

The head coach of EE lions Christian Cole remains confident of winning the FA cup for the very first time since he took over the club as head coach last year. Cole said "it is not an easy task to defeat Kamboi Eagles because they have a very strong team with a very good technical staff".

By Kemoh Sesay

The chairman of the textile designer group Emauni Foundation has said that fourteen secondary schools in the Western Area are set to take part in the first edition of the Emauni Athletics meet scheduled for Friday, 23rd May at the national stadium.

Alhaji Hassan Bangura said the idea behind the event is to develop the young athletes from schools so that "they become a national asset for the country". He said they will only compete on the track in events like 100m, 200m, 400m, 1,500m, 4X100m relay 4x400m.