by FSL News | 4 Jun, 2018 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone’s National Team Manager, Christian Dauda is joining the country’s Sports Minister and Director of Sports to this year’s United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conference at the Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria.
“Safeguarding Sports and Corruption” is the theme for the two-day conference starting tomorrow. It aims at finding ways to safeguard sports from significant risks posed by corruption and criminality, sources have confirmed to this medium.
Dauda, speaking ahead of the meeting said the convention against corruption is a welcoming strategy to safeguard not only football but sports in general.
He thanked the new Sports Minister, Ibrahim Nyelenkeh and the Director of Sports, Ibrahim Bangura for involving him in what he describes as, “such an important global gathering.”
Issues to be discussed at the conference include; specific challenges associated with the organization of sports events; Public Procurement and Sports Events; Match-fixing and how it can be addressed and, detection of corruption and enforcement among others.
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by FSL News | 17 May, 2018 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone
May 2017 Fifa ranking
The Leone Stars of Sierra Leone have plummeted further down to 103rd in the latest FIFA rankings.
The latest ranking was released on Thursday on FIFA’s official website
Leone Stars last played in March in a warm-up friendly to World Cup-bound Iran.
Iran takes apart a Sierra Leone side largely dominated by local stars 4-0 in an international friendly at the Tehran’s Azadi Stadium March 17.
Also in Africa, Sierra Leone, who will take on Ethiopia in September in the race for Cameroon 2019 static in 22nd position.
Meanwhile, The Leone Stars are still ahead of two of their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Group F qualifying opponents Kenya 111 and Ethiopia 146 in the world respectively.
Kenya’s next opponent in the Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier Ghana moved a place up to 50th in the world and 8th in Africa.
Sierra Leone last victory was against Kenya in the opener of African Nations Cup 2019 qualifiers in Freetown.
CAF Top Ten
Tunisia, Senegal, DR Congo, Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde Islands.
Meanwhile, The world top ten ranked countries, Germany still top of the pile, Brazil in second, Belgium in third, Portugal fourth and Argentina fifth.
Switzerland, France, Spain, Chile ninth and Poland 10th.
The next FIFA ranking will be published on June 7, 2018.
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by FSL News | 29 Apr, 2018 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone
WAFU U20: Liberia and Sierra Leone U20 captains at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia.
Rampant Liberia hammered Sierra Leone 5-1 on Saturday, 28 April 2018, at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia to reach this year’s WAFU U20 semi-finals.
Christopher Wreh’s young Lone Stars will now play Mali on Wednesday, May 2 at the SKD complex in Liberia.
Liberia’s President George Manneh Weah was among the guests at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium and the local Stars were full of motivation.
Unconvincingly Sierra Leone conceded 10 goals against Guinea Bissau, the Ivory Coast and Liberia and scored 4 goals from their Group A matches.
Liberia, who suffered a 3-0 defeat to the young Elephant of Cote d’Ivoire in the opening match on Tuesday, 24 April 2018, in Monrovia, beat Guinea Bissau 2-1 late on Thursday and thrashed Sierra Leone as they impressively finished 2nd behind Ivory Coast.
Musa Kebbeh scored a hat-trick followed by goals from Sheku Sheriff and Chauncey Freeman put the icing on the cake in a game the young Lone Star side dominated.
John T Kamara scored Sierra Leone’s only goal.
President Weah presented Musa Kebbeh with Man of the Match Award.
Elsewhere, Ivory Coast impressively was again at their best thrashing Guinea Bissau 4-0 in the Group A final match at the SKD Sports Complex.
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by FSL News | 25 Apr, 2018 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone opened their 2018 WAFU U20 tournament with a 2-1 win over Guinea Bissau at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Liberia on Tuesday evening.
Alusine Koroma, who was named Man of the Match, fired Shooting Stars of Sierra Leone ahead in the 29th min from a Bankole Cole assist.
The young Stars impressively dominated possession against the team that eliminated them from the Total U20 Africa Cup of Nations U20 qualifiers a week ago.
US-based Rodney Michael Jr made it 2-0 in the 43rd min from Thomas Kamara cross.
Sierra Leone kept on piling the pressure until Thomas Kamara shot hit the woodwork before the break.
After the Break, Guinea Bissau came out stronger putting some pressure on the Stars as they created two one on one situation but was both denied by the Sierra Leone Ghanaian based stopper Sylvanus Parkins.
Shooting Stars NBallie Kamara received a second yellow in the 48min and was sent off for an intentional handball according to the referee from Guinea.
Coach Ken Tabi was forced to make an urgent substitution by sacrificing goal scorer Rodney Michael Jr for defender Mohamed Sesay.
Despite with 10 men, Sierra Leone kept composure.
Guinea Bissau came close in the 68 min when Cissee Diaby shot hit the woodwork, this brought life into the Guineans attack.
G-Bissau scored in the 73min from a rebound free kick. However, Coach Ken Tabi side held on for their first win in three matches under the Cameroonian.
Sierra Leone Alusine Koroma won the Man of the Match Award after an impressive performance from the young lad from Lunsar.
Sierra Leone Coach post-match:
“The team is a young and has been together for a month now we have gone through the bad times, now we came out with the results.
“I believed in my boys and the performance has shown we are here for business.”
“We want to thank WAFU for given us the opportunity to showcase our talents as for four years no Domestic league in our country but with such tournament, we can see more stars emerging in Africa Football.”
Today matches we will see an all-French affair as Senegal will lock horn with Mali at 4:00 pm, whiles Gambia will take on Guinea, Conakry at 7 pm.
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by FSL News | 21 Apr, 2018 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone
Guinea Bissau will battle Nigeria’s Flying Eagles in the next stage of the Total U20 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers after eliminating Sierra Leone 1-0 on aggregate at the Bo Stadium on Saturday.
Host Shooting Stars failed to win at home, giving Coach Emiliano Te’s men the chance to face Nigeria’s Flying Eagles in May this year in the Race to Niger 2019.
Italy’s Sampdoria striker João Cláudio Gomes Ricciulli scored the only goal for the visitors in the first leg in Bissau at the 24 de Setembro Stadium.
The skipper was not available today but they managed to hold on to a goalless in Sierra Leone.
This is the fifth defeat in recent years for Shooting Stars and has been eliminated from this competition mostly at the preliminary stage.
The Gambia was the last to eliminated Sierra Leon after the young Scorpions recorded a convincing 4-0 aggregate over Shooting Stars in the two legs in the race to Rwanda in 2017.
The young Djurtinhos will host the Flying Eagles in the next round clash on May 11, 12 or 13 with the return leg in Nigeria a week later.
The final tournament will be hosted by Niger in 2019 with the four semi-finalists qualifying for the 2019 FIFA U20 World Cup
Shooting Stars Latest Results
21.04.2018 CAFÂ U20QÂ Sierra Leone 0-0 Guinea Bissau
01.04.2018 CAF U20QÂ Guinea-Bissau 1-0 Sierra Leone
23.04.2016 CAF U20QÂ Gambia 2-0 Sierra Leone
02.04.2016 CAF U20QÂ Sierra Leone 0-2 Gambia
24.05.2014 CAF U20QÂ Ghana U20 2-1 Sierra Leone
10.05.2014 CAF U20QÂ Sierra Leone 0-2 Ghana
25.04.2014 CAF U20QÂ Guinea Bissau 0-1 Sierra Leone
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by FSL News | 17 Apr, 2018 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone
Shooting Stars were defeated in Guinea Bissau in the first leg of the Niger 2019 preliminary qualifier.
Sierra Leone Shootings Stars will be facing their Guinea Bissau counterpart in the hunt for a place in the next stage on the road to Niger 2019.
Sierra Leone Cameroonian technician, Ken Tabi has expressed optimism of overturning a 1-0 deficit loss to Guinea Bissau two weeks ago at the Estadio Nacional 24 de Setembro in the capital city of Bissau.
The two sides go head to head again in the return leg of the 21st edition Total U20 Africa Cup of Nations preliminary qualifiers on Saturday 21st April at the Bo Coronation Ground, South of Sierra Leone.
The technician noted, it is possible for his team to overturn the 1-0 deficit because as he puts it “They now know the Bissau Guineans better than before”.
“I am optimistic because, before we did not know our opponents, we did not know their strength but now we know their strength and weaknesses and even how they play.
“We train twice a day-morning and evening to keep the boys fit and prepare to do our final assessments before choosing the appropriate squad for the match”, Tabi said.
“We must understand that our players do not have the required fitness for a match considering the long absence of national leagues across the country but we are working on that ahead of the tie this weekend”, Coach Ken added.
He pointed out that they have the full support of the SLFA administration for the match. The U-20 Head Coach said they lost the first leg in Guinea Bissau due to a technical mistake by the goalkeeper, after giving a pass to the opponent striker to score in an open goal.
Ken Tabi called on Sierra Leoneans to give their unflinching support to the team as they continue preparation for Saturday’s encounter. He assured the nation of qualifying the team to the next stage of the competition.
Sierra Leone U20 side has lost five of their last six international fixtures since April 2014 including their recent defeat to the Young Djurtinhos on 1st April 2018.
The winner between the two countries will face Nigeria’s Flying Eagles of Nigeria.
The Flying Eagles will then play away to the overall winners of this first round clash on May 11, 12 or 13 with the return leg in Nigeria a week later.
Match Referees: Afful Isaka Ayensu – 1st assistant: Ibrahim Adams Badiu – 2nd assistant: Paul Kodzo Atimaka
Stadium: Bo Stadium, Bo City Date: 21/04/2018 – 16:30
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