by FSL News | 14 Feb, 2018 | Players Abroad News
Viborg FF new striker Christian Moses says that the Greens squad are all looking forward to their week-long training camp in Turkey.
The Viborg-based club will be swapping their regular artificial turf and Danish winter cold to warmer temperature when Viborg FF travels to Turkey on Friday for a week training camp.
The training will include two friendly tests against FC Kaysar from Kazakhstan and Balkany Zorya from Ukraine between 16th and 23 of this month.
“We are all looking forward to the training camp in Turkey, Moses told footballsierraleone.net
“Everything is in place right now, we’re all are just waiting, these test matches will be a way of getting fitter ahead of the second phase of the league.”
Moses, who signed from Vendsyssel FF to Viborg FF as a free agent until the end of 2018 also lauds his teammates.
“I’m happy with my teammates, they all very friendly and any-time we’re together there is a sense of good team spirit, so the training camp will be worthwhile for the next half of the season.
The second half of the Danish NordicBet Liga will kick off on the 4th of March with Moses expected to make his Viborg league debut against Nykøbing FC at home.
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by FSL News | 14 Feb, 2018 | Players Abroad News
Five straight defeats in their last six Austrian top-flight games have plunge Sierra Leone international, George Davies side SKN Pölten into a deeper relegation mire.
Davies, 21, who joined from German second division SpVgg Greuther Fürth on a three-year contract until the summer of 2020, has only made seven appearances for the Pölten this season amassing 188 minutes on the pitch of play.
A brace from SV Mattersburg’s attacker Smail Prevljak in the 49th and 63rd minutes and another for defender Alois Höller on Saturday sank the home side further into the Austrian Bundesliga relegation quicksand.
A sequence of consecutive defeats has seen them first from the bottom with only seven points losing 17 matches.
St. Pölten, who achieved promotion into the Austrian Bundesliga by winning the First League in 2015–16, have only won once in 22 league matches this season.
Their next outing is away to league leaders Red Bull Salzburg on Sunday – a very tough away tie for the league’s bottom club. They were defeated 3-1 by Salzburg at home in November 2017.
St. Pölten will be desperate for a win against the leaders Salzburg to end a run of 5 Austrian top-tier games without a victory.
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by FSL News | 11 Feb, 2018 | Players Abroad News
Sheka Fofanah new club, Sudanese giant Al-Merrikh, suffered a 3-0 defeat in Botswana on Saturday in the first leg of this year’s CAF Champions League preliminary round at the National Stadium in Botswana.
The result means Al-Merrikh the fifth best team in Africa will face a difficult task next week against Township Rollers in Khartoum, Sudan in the reverse fixture.
Before the contest, Al Merreikh were the favourites over the two-legged tie.
Fofanah, 20, who recently signed on a two-year deal with Al-Merrikh Sporting Club, was an unused substitute in the squad that was defeated in Botswana.
He last played for Czech_Republic second-tier side MFK Frýdek-Místek.
Goals from Mosha Gaolaolwe, Edwin Moalosi and Segolame Boy gave Township Rollers a 3-0 advantage against the Sudanese giants Al-Merrikh
The Botswana top-tier side was brilliant against one of Africa’s top-seeded sides.
Gaolaolwe and Moalosi gave the Blues a deserved lead at the break with second-half substitute Boy adding a third in the second stanza.
The two sides meet again in the second leg in Sudan next week, with Rollers taking the three-goal advantage to East Africa.
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by FSL News | 11 Feb, 2018 | African News
Sierra Leone international, Prince Barrie and his Guinean top-flight club Hafia FC suffered a 1-0 defeat in Benin, at the Mathieu Kérékou stadium on Saturday.
The only goal of the day was scored by match-winner Jean Marie Guerra in the first leg preliminary of the CAF Confederation Cup.
Former Inter Allies attacking midfielder, Barrie made his continental debut but was not able to rescue a defeat for his side.
Hafia will have to overturn their first defeat on the continental stage after 15 years of absence if they are to make the next stage of the competition.
The two sides meet again in the second leg in Guinea next week, with Energie taking a 1 nil narrow advantage to their West African counterpart.
The winner after two legs will have a cracking double date with Enyimba (Nigeria) in the second round.
Elsewhere, Egyptian club Al Masry dominated and registered a resounding victory over Green Buffaloes of Zambia.
The Zambians now face an uphill battle in the reverse fixture next week.
2018 CAF Con fed Preliminary Round (1st Leg) Results – Names of Scorers in bracket
Friday: AS Onze Createurs 1-1 CR Belouizdad [Lassana Samake (pen) || (Youcef Bechou)
Saturday: Ngazi Sport 1-1 AS Port Louis 2000 – [Adele Fanomezantsoa || Jonathan Ernest]
Olympique Star 0-0 Etoile Filante – Young Buffaloes 0-1 Cape Town City – [Nana Akosah-Bempah]
Costa do Sol 1-0 Jwaneng Galaxy [Terrance Tisdell] – Mangasport 0-1 AS Maniema [Basiala Agee]
Petro Atletico 5-0 Masters Security [Tiago Azulao, Tony Rosa Ribeiro 3X, Diney Costa dos Santos]
Energie Sports 1-0 Hafia FC – [Jean Marie Guerra]
Al Ittihad Tripoli 1-0 Sahel SC – [Muad Issa] – AS Tanda 0-0 La Mancha
New Stars FC 2-1 Deportivo Niefang [Junior Ngongang 2X || Salif Diarra]
Al Masry 4-0 Green Buffaloes – [Islam Salah, Aristide Bance, Mohammed Koffi, Islam Eissa]
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by FSL News | 10 Feb, 2018 | Players Abroad News
The Jags will take on Brendan Rodgers’s Celtic at Celtic Park in the fifth round of the Scottish Cup on Saturday afternoon.
Sierra Leone international, Mustapha Dumbuya, who recently returned from a long injury lay-off, has been named on the bench for the Jags in this lunchtime contest.
Partick Thistle also welcome back Callum Booth.
Sources close to the former Portsmouth defender have confirmed the player was glad to be back on the pitch helping the team after returning from his latest spell on the sidelines.
The pacy right and wingback made his return to the pitch from the start in the Jags 2-1 defeat away to Celtic in the league on January 23.
He has gone on to play in three Scottish top-flight matches since his return.
The 30-year-old has suffered some serious injury trauma in the last two seasons, with Achilles injury he suffered just prior to pre-season 2015/2016 and another serious injury ahead of the 2017/18 season that has seen him miss six months of action.
He had won the club’s McCrea Financial Services Player of the Month for September 2015, after his remarkable start to life with the Scottish side.
SAT 10 FEB 2018 Scottish Cup – Fifth-round 2:15 Venue: Celtic Park
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by FSL News | 9 Feb, 2018 | African News
Hafia FC attacking midfielder Prince Barrie is looking forward to his CAF Confederation Cup debut in Benin at the Stade de l’Amitié de Kouhounou, Cotonou.
Seven points adrift of Horoya AC in second place, Hafia going into this weekend continental tie highly motivated after winning three of their last five League matches.
Barrie, 20, with No 17 jersey in the photo, who joined the Guinean top-flight club on a two-year deal is expected to play a key role against Energie Sports of Benin in the first leg tie of the CAF Confederation Cup preliminary round this weekend.
“I think I’m ready is going to be a totally different experience for me, Barrie told footballsierraleone.net.
“I’ve never played in a CAF Cup tie, so I hope it will go well.”
“I’m determined to showcase my talent and help the team and make my country Sierra Leone proud as well.
The three-time African Champions new acquisition added: “As a team, we are all motivated and determine to win tomorrow match.”
“We want to do well in this competition.”
Meanwhile, Hafia arrived in Benin and according to our sources after the usual formalities upon arrival at the International airport Cardinal Bernardin Gantin the delegation refused to take the bus reserved for them.
The Guineans have made a fun of Energie FC hospitality. While the leaders of Energy were there, a police vehicle for their security, the Guinean delegation boycotted before heading towards the own buses that they prepared parallel, Football Sierra Leone understands.
The winner after two legs will have a cracking double date with Enyimba (Nigeria) in the second round.
CAF Confederation Cup fixtures – Friday, 9 February 2018 – Djoliba (Mali) vs ELWA United (Liberia) – Onze Createurs (Mali) vs CR Belouizdad (Algeria)
Saturday, 10 February 2018
Petro Atletico (Angola) vs Masters Security (Malawi) – Young Buffaloes (Swaziland) vs Cape Town City (South Africa) – Costa do Sol (Mozambique) vs Jwaneng (Botswana)
Energie (Benin) vs Hafia (Guinea) – Ngazi Sport (Comoros) vs Port Louis (Mauritius) – Mangasport (Gabon) vs Maniema Union (DR Congo)
Olympic Star (Burundi) vs Etoile Filante (Burkina Faso) – New Stars (Cameroon) vs Deportivo Niefang (Equatorial Guinea) – Tanda (Cote d’Ivoire) vs CS la Mancha (Congo)
Al Ittihad (Libya) vs Sahel (Niger) – US Ben Guerdane (Tunisia) vs Hilal Juba (South Sudan) – El Masry (Egypt) vs Green Buffaloes (Zambia)
Sunday, 11 February 2018
APR (Rwanda) vs Anse Reunion (Seychelles) – Akwa United (Nigeria) vs Hawks (Gambia) – Asante Kotoko (Ghana) vs CARA (Congo)
AFC Leopards (Kenya) vs FOSA Juniors (Madagascar) – Simba (Tanzania) vs Gendarmerie (Djibouti)- RS Berkane (Morocco) vs Mbour Petite Cote (Senegal)
Africa Sports (Cote d’Ivoire) vs FC Nouadhibou (Mauritania) – Zimamoto (Zanzibar) vs Wolaitta Dicha (Ethiopia)
*ELWA United withdrew
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