Tag: sports
FIFA official attacked in Freetown over decision to create interim SLFA body
On Saturday rowdy football fans unhappy with the decision that an interim normalization committee may be set up to run Sierra Leone’s Football Association attacked a FIFA Official. Primo Corvaro was ...Exclusive: Sierra Leone minister of sports Paul Kamara speaks on politics and football
Sierra Leone’s minister of Youth Employment and Sports, Paul Mohamed Kamara, has intimated to this medium that officials from FIFA and CAF will be arriving in Sierra Leone on Friday to address ...Liberia beats Black Stars 2-0: Thank God We’re not a Ghanaians
It is possible that you didn’t hear that Lone Stars of Liberia beat Ghana’s Black Stars 2-0 earlier this week in Monrovia for the 2nd annual President’s Cup but you should definitely know. ...Sierra Leone Football Association back on, Minister lifts ban
The Minister of Sports Paul Kamara has changed his mind after he wrote a letter to FIFA two days ago banning Sierra Leone’s Football Association. If this decision had not been reversed, ...Dis Na Rubbish: Lars Olof Mattsson invites an ineligible Nigerian to play for Leone Stars
We are coopting Anderson Cooper’s Ridiculist to shine a spot light on all things ridiculous from Sierra Leone and the rest of West Africa. But because this is Swit Salone we have ...The Olympic Smile that beat them all
What I will remember from Sierra Leone at the London 2012 Olympic Ceremony most of all is Ola Sesay’s smile. White, broad, and confident her smile beamed out to me from where ...K1x batik sneakers designed by jobless youth in Sierra Leone on sale in Paris
In 2005 European sports brand K1x launched “you cant teach heart”, the Freetown Collection. It featured Sierra Leone’s national basketball team who until then were pretty much unknown. They even dubbed a ...Sierra Leone’s national football team now better than Nigeria’s
FIFA has just released its recent country rankings and Sierra Leone has for the first time topped the Super Eagles of Nigeria. Team Leone Stars now stand at 61st, two places ahead ...Bengals love Sierra Leone, Williams, Wilson, now Mohamed Sanu
22-year-old Mohamed Sanu is the third Sierra Leonean American to play professional football for the Cincinnati Bengals. Madieu Williams and Gibril Wilson both had contracts with the Bengals. Sanu a wide receiver was the first third-rounder picked ...Blackpool FC may survive relegation with 1 – 0 win over Kissy Allstars
Might Black Pool won a crucial 1-0 over Kissy All Stars In a match that kept them out of relegation. Even though Kissy All Stars tried to pull back a one goal ...