Sports

By Kemoh Sesay  

The Sierra Leone Swimming and Water Polo Association has ended a 10-day level 2 coaching course which brought 52 participants from all over the country together in Freetown.

The Course Director Gerd Notelmann from Germany praised the coaches for "participating fully" in the programme. He said the world governing body of swimming considers the level 2 coaching course as "significant" to the development of the sport.

The man in charge of competitions at the Sierra Leone Football Association has disclosed that the second leg of Sierra Leone's Nation's Cup qualifier against the southern African kingdom of Swaziland will be played at the new Bo stadium.

Ibrahim Sesay said "that after watching all the facilities at the Stadium, which are up to standard the match between Leone Stars and Swaziland will be hosted here instead of the national stadium in Freetown which is usual venue".

By Kemoh Sesay

The Under 20 national football team of Sierra Leone, Shooting Stars will host their  Ghanaian counterparts, Black Satellite at the newly constructed four thousand seater stadium in the southern provincial town of Bo this weekend.

The Leocem FA cup has reached the final stage with East End Lions from the Western Area to clash with Kamboi Eagles of the Eastern Province for the 20 million leone cash prize. To reach the final, EE Lions defeated Bo Rangers 4 -2 on post- game penalties after a goalless draw at the end of 90 minutes.

For their part, Kamboi Eagles eliminated Edmound Michael Foundation also on post - game penalties after 1-1 draw at the Kenema town field.

The founder and manager of non - division side FC Seattle has praised the discipline and commitment of his players. Speaking at a charitable programe organised by the club at the Lumley beach last weekend, Bambay Sawaneh said "as a team they are taking this objective very seriously so that we can build them for the future prospect both locally and internationally". He said every three months "we organise matches for them in all the categories we have just to keep them going... we preach and pray for the players to avert injuries from them before and after matches".

By Kemoh Sesay

The recently-appointed General Secretary of the Sierra Leone Football Association has described the state of the facilities at SLFA headquarters at Kingtom as "a health hazard" and ordered its immediate closure. Christopher Kamara who took sports journalists on an inspection tour of the facilities last weekend said "even dogs cannot sleep here" and suggested that players who've been camping in the hostel for international matches may have contracted malaria and that "could be one of the reasons they lose matches".

A five day training course for forty-four grassroots coaches from across the county has ended In Freetown.

SLFA president, Isha Johansen thanked the participant for taking part "in a wonderful course that will up- grade their skills to develop kids in the country" because, according to her, "these young kids are the future of Sierra Leone football". She also thanked FIFA for "helping to make this course a successful".