by FSL News | 31 Jan, 2021 | Players Abroad News, Sport News
Danish top-tier side Randers have turned down an offer from AaB Aalborg for striker Alhaji Kamara.
Ekstra Bladet reported that Randers rejected AaB’s bid of around five million kroner for their Sierra Leonean poacher.
26-year-old Alhaji Kamara has a contract until 2022 with Randers, where he has scored six goals in 13 Danish Superliga matches this season.
Furthermore, they also refused to let Tom van Weert or Magnus Christensen be included as part of the payment for Kamara.
The second phase of the season will Kick-off 2 February with Randers taking on Horsens at their Cepheus Part stadium.
The East Jutland-based side currently in fourth and they will be hoping to continue pushing to go further up the table.
In-form Alhaji Kamara nets Randers fourth in a row
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by FSL News | 30 Jan, 2021 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone, Sport News
- Sierra Leone will no longer host the much-awaited Zone-A U-17 men’s youth tournament due to COVID-19, the local federation (SLFA) confirmed on Friday
- The men’s youth tournament which will serve as the regional qualifiers for the 2021 CAF U-17 Africa Cup of Nations, will be hosted in Senegal from 5th-13th February 2021
The West African Football Union (WAFU) earlier granted the tournament’s hosting rights to Sierra Leone and the tournament was previously scheduled to commence in December last year but was rescheduled for the second time to a later date, due to the outbreak of Coronavirus in Sierra Leone and logistical constraints faced by WAFU.
The SLFA says: they regret to announce to the general public that despite all efforts with all reasonable means possible, the COVID-19 situation has made it virtually impossible to host the proposed WAFU U-17 AFCON Qualifiers in Sierra Leone, bearing in mind that the country is currently under a 10 pm-5 am curfew and a national lockdown to and from the country’s capital, Freetown.
Host Senegal, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea are tipped to compete in this year’s tourney.
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by FSL News | 30 Jan, 2021 | African News, Sport News
- Madagascar’s Ahmad has been dramatically restored as Confederation of African Football (Caf) president following a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), BBC Sports reports
- Ahmad was banned by Fifa in November for five years after football’s world governing body found him to have breached several of its ethics codes
The Malagasy – who will now resume his role as a Fifa vice-president – appealed his decision at Cas, which issued a preliminary ruling on Friday.
Ahmad is still ineligible to contest Caf’s presidential elections in March however since the Cas decision came after both the Caf’s Governance Committee and Fifa’s Review Committee met earlier this week to discuss the eligibility of candidates.
Cas says it will hear Ahmad’s appeal in full on 2 March, with a decision issued before the Caf presidential elections on 12 March.
“Due to a risk of irreparable harm for Mr Ahmad, if the disciplinary sanction is maintained during the period prior to the Caf elections, the Cas panel has upheld the request to temporarily stay the effects of the [Fifa ban],” Cas, sport’s highest legal body, said in a statement.
This effective suspension of the Fifa ruling will be in place ‘until the day that the final Cas award is issued’.Since he was banned when Fifa met on Tuesday and Caf on Thursday to vet presidential aspirants, Ahmad was deemed ineligible to run.
He will now need to overturn the decisions ruling him ineligible to run since his appeal at Cas was not against the decision barring him from contesting the elections but against his Fifa ban.
Should Cas find against him when its hearing takes place in early March, Ahmad – who proclaimed the backing of over 46 federations, out of 54, shortly before his ban – will be ruled out of the race once and for all.
As of this week, four candidates were cleared to run for the Caf elections on 12 March: Jacques Anouma (Ivory Coast), Patrice Motsepe (South Africa), Augustin Senghor (Senegal), Ahmed Yahya (Mauritania).
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by FSL News | 28 Jan, 2021 | Players Abroad News, Sport News
- John Thomas Kamara has signed his first professional deal with USL Championship side Louisville City.
The club says they have added youth to its ranks with their new midfield acquisition.
Kamara, 18, joined from Florida powerhouse Montverde Academy.
“A deal with Kamara, who goes by “Jay Tee,” is pending league and federation approval. He is reporting immediately to begin preseason training with the boys in purple on Monday,” they confirmed on their website.
“Jay Tee is an exciting and creative young player,” said LouCity’s Head Coach and Sporting Director John Hackworth.
He added, “Kamara trialled with us last summer, impressing our staff and players with his skill, imagination and explosiveness. We know he comes from an excellent academy background and looks forward to watching him develop at the professional level.”
Last season Kamara was one of eight athletes to sign professional contracts out of his academy for the 2020-21 school year.
Before Louisville City FC he played for local club Alaska FC.
Kamara was part of Sierra Leone U20 side participated in the tournament in Liberia, where he made his first big splash.
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by FSL News | 27 Jan, 2021 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone, Sport News
- The President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), Madam Isha Johansen, has been declared eligible to vie for membership of the FIFA Council, which is the highest decision-making body in world football
- As a result, Johansen will be hoping to rise to the top of Fifa’s decision body when elections are held at the Congress of the Confederation of African Football scheduled on 12 March 2021 in Rabat, Morocco
- The 37-member FIFA Council will include seven members from the Confederation of African Football
Johansen, who was elected as the SLFA’s boss unopposed on the 3rd August 2013, is a member of Fifa’s member Association Committee since 2017.
The CAF Executive Committee member declared her intention over a few years ago to run for SLFA second term despite rival members calling her seven years in office as overdue.
Furthermore, FIFA also approved the candidacies of the four aspirants to the CAF presidency.
The new council will be made up of the following individuals:
- The President
- CONMEBOL: one vice-president and four members
- AFC: one vice-president and six members
- UEFA: three vice-presidents and six members
- CAF: one vice-president and six members
- CONCACAF: one vice-president and four members
- OFC: one vice-president and two members
The FIFA Council replaced the largely discredited Executive Committee as FIFA’s decision-making body under reforms instituted in the wake of the 2015 corruption scandal in soccer’s world governing body.
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by FSL News | 26 Jan, 2021 | African News, Sport News
- Total African Nations Championship (CHAN) holders Morocco defeat Uganda 5-2 in Douala to advanced to the quarter-finals of this year’s competition on Tuesday.
- A resilient second-half display by the Atlas Lions secured their emphatic victory at the Stade de la Réunification to secure top spot in Group C.
Soufiane Rahimi bagged a brace. As a result, Jonathan Mckinstry’s Cranes are out of the competition as they finish bottom of the group after defeat to Togo and Morocco.
Morocco top of the group with seven points and keep alive their hopes of retaining the title they won on home soil of the competition designed exclusively for home-based players.
Meanwhile, Rwanda secured a 3-2 triumph over Togo to reached the quarterfinals on Tuesday night.
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