Sports

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2018: France has just won the FIFA World Cup for the second time in their history, twenty years after they played host and won it for the first time in 1998. The FIFA World Cup trophy, which was initially called the Jules Rimet trophy, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 November 2017 The first prosecution witness in the matter between the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Isha Johansen (first accused) and the Secretary General Chris Kamara (second accused) – Kiny-Ali Brima Walker gave evidence in court today. He [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2017 Anti-Corruption Commission indictee and President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA has on Monday made her first appearance before a Freetown High Court, presided over by Justice Reginald Fynn Jnr. Isha Johansen made her appearance together with the Secretary General of the SLFA, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 July 2017 Football may be a beautiful game to many across the world, but there is nothing beautiful about football in Sierra Leone. It ceased to be a beautiful game in Sierra Leone, after the politicisation of its management by the ruling APC in the 1980s, [Read More]

Daniel Koroma Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2017 Isha Johansen – is popularly known as the “Iron Lady”; and CAF referred to her as a “Champion”; the former FIFA President hailed her as a “Warrior”, whilst Forbes Magazine named Isha Johansen as one of the twelve women to “watch out [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2016 When Roger Milla of Cameroon danced the samba at the 1991 FIFA World Cup matches after scoring delightful goals, the whole world cheered – even the referees tolerated his shenanigans. (Photo: The twerking dance that got the Sierra Leonean footballer in trouble with the [Read More]

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2013 As twenty-one countries qualified last night for next year’s World Cup football competition in Brazil, Sierra Leone’s national football team – Leone Stars is now facing the agony once again, of failing to make the mark. (Photo: Ghana celebrates last night’s 6-0 defeat [Read More]

Austin Thomas  The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2013 “We are not going to play, no matter the threat,’’ says Siraji Rollings Kamara, who is the spokesman for the aggrieved party of football stakeholders, and also chairman of premier League club – Central Parade. Kamara said that they will meet [Read More]