The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has officially announced that it will launch the African Women’s Champions League next year.
The decision comes after months of deliberation about a female club champion’s league across the African continent.
Head of Media Department at the Sierra Leone Football Association, Ibrahim Kamara, informed this medium that Key among the pioneers to endorse this historical change was Madam Isha Johansen- President of the Sierra Leone Football Association who is a CAF Executive Committee Member. Johansen is also Chairperson of African Women’s Football.
“I would like to congratulate the Women’s Department in CAF which stood firmly behind us in the belief that we must not only raise our game, but also change our narrative. These are abnormal times, but we must also strive to preserve the normal,” Johansen said.
Speaking to some female footballers across the capital they registered their happiness at being given an opportunity to finally showcase their God-given talents in the champions’ league.
They added that with this new development they are calling on the President of the Sierra Leone Football Association Madam Johansen to see the need to put better structures in place so that female football would return back to the country in grand style. “Football is our career and without football the world means nothing to us, we want to continue playing football so that our dreams will come true,” they told Premier News.
By Desmond Tunde Coker
07/07/2020. ISSUE NO.: 7860