OlympAfrica Centre, a sports project which is been implemented under the National Olympic Committee, which aims at developing the potential of kids in sports within Sierra Leone, is presently engaged in a one-month sports training activities titled FutbolNet at their centre in Goderich. The training commenced on December 29, 2020 and will end on January...Read More
Head Coach of the senior male national football team, Leone Stars, John Keister, has invited 41 local footballers to commence training in readiness of the country’s upcoming crucial AFCON qualifiers against Lesotho and Benin in March 2021. Sierra Leone had a back to back draw with Nigeria’s Super eagles. Leone Stars are buzzing with confidence...Read More
After football was put on hold for eleven months (11), the Sierra Leone Premier League Board has in a press statement issued on Thursday January 14th, 2021 informed the public that the Sierra Leone Premier League 2020/2021 season will continue on February 19th, 2021. According to the statement, the decision to restart the League had...Read More
Precious Amara, a local referee, has been appointed to officiate in FIFA international matches in 2021. Amara is a former short-distance runner. She is the NSA’S Regional Sports Development Officer North-West. Precious is now the first female Sierra Leonean to be appointed as FIFA referee in recent time since the last batch in the year...Read More
Sierra Stars, the under 17 national football team of Sierra Leone, continue to prepare for the West African Football Union football tournament although the tournament has been postponed. Presently, 27 boys are camped in Makeni City as intensive training continues ahead of the upcoming WAFU Zone Total U-17 AFCON Qualifiers for Morocco 2021. Raymond Samuel...Read More
East End Tigers Football Club have on Wednesday, January 6, 2020, unveiled a 42-seater Bus at the forecourt of the Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown. Speaking during the unveiling ceremony, the Chairman and Owner of the Yellow Submarines Victor Lewis said: “We are not a rich club; we are just trying in our little way...Read More
The National Amputee Football of Sierra Leone will play an international football friendly with their Liberian counterparts today as a way of recognizing the untold human suffering which destruction of lives and property which ensued in Freetown following the invasion of Freetown in January 6, 1999 by rebel forces. Albert Manley Mustapha, the Public Relations...Read More
The Ministry of Sports and the National Sports Authority have on Monday January 4, 2021, announced the lifting of the ban on sporting activities. The Joint press statement was put out following constructive engagements with the National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre (NaCOVERC). The release emphasized that sports activities will take place behind closed doors for...Read More
The Project Director of Edelgrass, Mark Van Spiel, has told sportsmen that the FIFA funded SLFA-Artificial Turf Project at the Kenema City field will be in full readiness by February, as work is in full progress. Mark Van Spriel said he was happy with the rate of progress on the work that is being done...Read More
The Chairman of the Central One Football Association (COFA), Pa Sama Sesay, who died on Thursday November 19, 2020, was laid to rest at the Kingtom Cemetery on Sunday November 22 . He had been accepted as a member of the Order of the Rokel by former President Ernest Bai Koroma. He was 71 years...Read More
