Sports

By Kemoh Sesay

The Craig Bellamy Foundation CBF Will launch the girls U- 19 league on Friday 21^st February 2014 at the parade grounds with six female teams are expected to take part High Tension Queen, Amazon, Soccer Queen, Fan Kroobay, Mamoud FC, and Victory girls from Dwarzak.

League Manager Mohamed Sowe  said "this will be the first time we are coming up with a Girls' League since the inception of CBF league as it's part of the sponsorship package presented to Mercury International.

By Kemoh Sesay

The Sierra Leone football Association will organize a two day football Referee’s refresher course at the SLFA Academy from Saturday 23 and Sunday 24th February 2014. The purpose of this course is to help Referees across the country improve their performance ahead of up-coming competitions.

According to Anabi Yusuf Kamara, a member of the Western Area Football Referees Association WAFRA, the two-day course will develop the Referees' mental ability to handle matches.

33 Referees are expected to take part in the course.

Sahr Morris, Sports reporter with Concord Times newspaper has had his accreditation to cover the 2014 World Cup in Brazil cancelled by the SLFA. According to a letter addressed to his newspaper, the SLFA accused him of publishing "defamatory statements" about its president, Isha Johansen.

The letter, signed by General Secretary Abdul Rahman Swaray reads in part, "let me draw your attention to the fact that you dragged the name of FIFA, CAF and Government of Sierra Leone of having been involved in an electoral fraud in SLFA elections during the last congress".

By Kemoh Sesay

Magazine and Soja Tong communities will fight it out in the finals of the Central One Football Association (COFA) inter area league on Sunday 16^th February at Parade Grounds.

Magazine Community were unbeaten on the road to the final. They eliminated Wellington Community in the quarter finals and Mount Aureol in the semifinals.

By Kemoh Sesay

The Sierra Leone Volleyball Association (SLVBA) begins its annual inter-regional indoor and beach volleyball championship in Koidu city on the 20^th of February.

By Kemoh Sesay

Former president of the Single leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA) Michael Sillah has donated a second hand Honda car for the use of the SLASA administration and boxes of used clothing and sports jersey, reading books, mattresses, shoes and back packs for amputees and their families.

Brima Mazola and Arne Johansen

By Kemoh Sesay

FC Matino have won the opening match of the re-launched FA Cup which kicked off last weekend in the Southern city of Bo. They defeated FC Kuyateh 7-6 on post game penalties.