by FSL News | 5 Jan, 2019 | Players Abroad News
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The Major League Soccer’s sixth all-time leading goalscorer Kei Kamara has opened up for the first time after leaving Canadian side Vancouver Whitecaps.
He scored 14 goals for the Whitecaps last season and six assists but was not enough to convince new manager and was told his services were no longer needed at the club.
Kamara, 34, who joined Colorado Rapids was awaiting news from his agent about where he’d be playing in 2019, his ninth professional club.
However, the former Middlesbrough attacker was instead picked by Cincinnati and traded to the Rapids for an international roster spot, on a two-year deal last month.
He told MLS soccer website, “All the energy I spent playing, trying to help the team grow, help the younger players around me, I felt good that I was going to stay in Vancouver for a little longer.”
The attacker added, “Even after the head coach was let go, even though he was the head coach that brought me there. Maybe I was reading the energy wrong.”
“When I got the news that they weren’t interested in keeping me and I was being traded, I was shocked,” Kamara explained.
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by FSL News | 5 Jan, 2019 | African News
Former AC Milan player Kevin Constant, 31, has joined the Tabriz-based club on a three-and-half-year deal, the club has announced.
The Guinean international has signed his ninth professional contract since 2006 and is expected to play as a defensive midfielder in Tractor Sazi.
Constant career started with the Toulouse’s first-team squad in 2006 before joining Ligue 2 side Châteauroux in 2008.
In September 2010, he was signed by Italian club Chievo on a loan deal, ultimately made permanent in June 2011.
On 20 June 2012, Constant moved to AC Milan on a loan deal and was on 27 July 2013, Milan bought Constant out-right for another €6 million also selling Sierra Leone’s Rodney Strasser to Genoa for €3.5 million on the same day.
In 2014, he joined Turkey’s Trabzonspor, and two years later he returned to Italy to play for Bologna.
On the international stage, Constant made his debut on 14 October 2007, in a 1–3 friendly loss against Senegal.
He scored against Nigeria on 10 October 2010 in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification against Nigeria and, has gone to play over 25 matches for Guinea.
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by FSL News | 5 Jan, 2019 | African News
Paul Pogba’s mother has been appointed an ambassador for women’s football by the Guinea Football Federation (Feguifoot).
Yeo Moriba, who was a former international herself with the Guinea women’s team delighted with her new role following a meeting with Feguifoot President Mamadou Antonio Souare.
The Feguifoot president is hoping that Paul and his twin brothers, Florentin and Mathias, will support their mother in her new role.
“I am proud of what the Guinea Football Federation and its president have done,” she told Feguifoot’s website.
Florentin and Mathias, who have both played for the Syli Nationale, were born in Guinea before Moriba moved to France where Paul was born.
Defender Florentin last played in Turkey with Genclerbirligi. while striker Mathias is currently with French club Tours.
The hope is that the family will be able to rejuvenate women’s football in Guinea.
Unlike their male counterparts, the women’s team has never qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations let alone the World Cup or Olympics.
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by FSL News | 3 Jan, 2019 | Players Abroad News
Mustapha Dumbuya departs Scottish club Falkirk
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Sierra Leone international defender Mustapha Dumbuya has left Scottish club Falkirk, the club has confirmed.
The former Partick Thistle defender agreed on a short-term deal in November 2018 with Scottish Championship club Falkirk until January.
The right-back was a backup signing by Ray McKinnon. He failed to make a first-team appearance.
Dumbuya spent the 2017-18 season with relegated Partick Thistle in the Scottish top-flight before he departed the club.
“We can confirm that Marcus Haber and Mustapha Dumbuya have left the club, ” the club said in a statement.
Dumbuya, 31, has had spells with Doncaster Rovers, Crystal Palace (Loan), Portsmouth, Crawley Town, Notts County, and Partick Thistle.
by FSL News | 1 Jan, 2019 | African News
Reigning Player of the Year Mohamed Salah, team-mate Sadio Mane and 2015 winner Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, have made the top three on final shortlist.
This year’s ceremony will be held at an awards gala on 8 January in Dakar, Senegal.
A repeat of last year, the three players will be hoping to begin the year with the crown of Player of the Year for their exploits in 2018.
The women’s shortlist has also been revealed with Nigeria duo Asisat Oshoala and Francisca Ordega, and South Africa’s Thembi Kgatlana making the final three.
Oshoala has won the last two Caf awards and three in total, and along with Ordega helped the Super Falcons win the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in 2018.
Kgatlana was the Most Valuable Player and top-scorer at the Nations Cup as Banyana Banyana narrowly lost out to Nigeria on penalties in the final.
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by FSL News | 30 Dec, 2018 | Players Abroad News
Sierra Leone international Alfred Sankoh has left Saudi Arabian club Al-Jabalain FC, five months after penning a one year contract.
The 30-year-old, who joined the club in July this year, is in talks with one Omanis football club, Football Sierra Leone understands.
The former Denizlispor midfielder, presently in Freetown has struggled for a regular place in the team and has confirmed opted out of his contract.
Sankoh is amongst a list of Sierra Leone natives that have signed and played for Saudi Arabian clubs.
Sankoh professional career started with Norwegian Strømsgodset in 2008.
He has had spells with Ullern, Khazar Lankaran, Balikesirspor and Denizlispor.
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