Sports

By Kemoh Sesay

The national Under 20 team, Shooting Stars are undergoing intensive training ahead of the African Youth Championship to be held in Dakar, Senegal. They host their Guinean counterparts in the first leg in the preliminary round on the 5^th April at Wusum Field in Makeni.

Thirty two (32) home-based players from different football clubs across the country are in the squad now training at the SLFA football academy in Freetown.

Aureole Insurance Company has presented a giant trophy to the Western Area Volley Ball Association, WAVA for their Inter Club championships.

According to a member of the organizing committee, Florence Amara, the arrival of the trophy has "increased the energy of the participating teams in the Western Region". She disclosed that the company also donated three million Leones as part of their sponsorship package to the tournament. She said "It was an enormous boost and a very timely one indeed".

By Kemoh Sesay

The Sierra Leone women's national cricket team is expecting a tough challenge in the East, North West African [ENWAC] Cricket competition to be held in Banjul, the Gambia in May, 2014. The event will feature women’s cricket team from the three zones in Africa with the aim of exposing women cricketers and expanding the game in the African region.

By Kemoh Sesay

The draw for the next round of the FA Cup has been held at the SLFA Secretariat in Freetown over the weekend. Thirty- two teams qualified for this knock out stage of the competition which will involve sixteen ties at home and away basis. The draw  was  witnessed by football stake holders, club officials, coaches and Sports Journalists.

By Kemoh Sesay

Real Mack FC will take on Ibrahim FC in the Western Area Football Association (WAFA) FA Cup grand finals at the national stadium today.

Both teams qualified to the round of 32 teams joining the likes Nottingham Forest, Dollarosa, B-Strikers, and others from the western region. Both teams eliminated sides that were tipped to reach the finals.

Real Mack scored ten goals in four matches conceding two goal while Ibrahim FC scored eight goals and conceded three from the same number of matches.

The long awaited Salone Premier League (SPL) is said to start this weekend Saturday 22^nd March in various venues across the country, according to a member of the media committee of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA).

Asked about the sponsors of the league, he said only Sierra Leone Brewery limited has provided one hundred million Leones of sponsorship money

A member of the Premier League Board (PLB) Idrissa Mago Tarawallie confirmed the commencement of the league and hoped that more sponsors will come on board.