Augustine Williams rescues point for Charleston Battery

Augustine Williams rescues point for Charleston Battery

Sierra Leone International Augustine Williams scored sixth of the USL Championship season to help Charleston Battery earn a point against the Tampa Bay Rowdies on Saturday.

Williams, 24, once again was on the scoresheet as they came from behind to share spoils 1-1 at Al Lang Stadium.

Tampa Bay scored through Leonardo Fernandes in the first half, but Charleston drew parity from Williams’ 63rd-minute close-range.

The Battery secured their first point against the Rowdies since 2020 in what was a continuation of strong performances for the Black and Yellow.

Williams was pleased with the result as he commended the squad for their development, as shown in their performance against Tampa Bay on the road.

“To come here against one of the best teams in the league and earn a point – it’s an amazing feeling because of how much we were grinding,” said Williams. “It’s a big step forward and it was excellent collective work.”

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Huddersfield Town has confirmed Sierra Leone native Josh Koroma will stay for another year.

Koroma, 23, who joined the Terriers from Leyton Orient ahead of the 2019/20 campaign, has triggered his option of a further year.

The English Championship side unveiled their retained list for summer 2022, confirming that one-year extensions have been triggered on two key players’ contracts.

“Harry Toffolo and Josh Koroma have had club options for the 2022/23 season exercised on their existing contracts, retaining their registration with Town.

Koroma was Town’s top scorer in the 2020/21 season. Having impressed, he was awarded the number 10 shirt ahead of the 2021/22 season.

The attacker featured in 38 matches in all competitions scoring five goals. Having missed a play-off promotion to the Premier League after their 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest at Wembley, Carlos Corberán’s side will want to use the experience gained in the new season.

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The Confederation of Africa, CAF, have unveiled the schedule for next month’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.

Debutants Burundi and Botswana are in  Group C alongside Nigeria and South Africa.

The competition will commence on Saturday, 02 July 2022 at Prince Moulay Abdellah sports Complex as hosts Morocco lock horns with Burkina Faso. Kickoff at 21h30 local time (21h30 GMT).

The 14th edition of the Women’s AFCON will also serve as qualifiers for next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand starting from July 20.

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This year’s qualifiers will run from August 28 to 10th September and will be the first time Mauritania hosting WAFU Zone A tournament.

Mauritania, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone are the eight nations out of nine that set to know their opponent in two weeks.

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A total of twelve teams qualify to play in the final tournament, including host Egypt.

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Sierra Leone Italy-based attacker Augustus Kargbo was positively bursting with pride after the attacker helped revive their comeback against Guinea Bissau on Monday.

The Crotone player dribbled to create space off his marker to score his first international goal for Sierra Leone in the 77th minute at the General Lansana Conté stadium in Group A matchday two of the African Cup of Nations qualifier.

Musa Nohad Kamara drew parity for Sierra Leone in the 87th minute to rescue a vital point against 9-man Djurtus.

When answering questions from this medium afterwards, Kargbo said: “It was a proud moment for me,  my family. I’m happy to have scored my first Sierra Leone goal donning the Green, White and Blue jersey.”

“I was over the moon, especially in front of my family and the fans at the stadium. One of those feelings I can’t explain.” It was raw emotion, although not the result we wanted, it was a point that kept our hopes alive,” Kargbo told footballsierraleone.net.

The goal was no more than Kargbo deserved for his brilliant efforts as a substitute.

Against Nigeria, he was brought on for Mua Noad Kamara in the 2-1 defeat at the MKO Abiola Stadium on Thursday.

The Leone Stars of Sierra Leone’s next Afcon outing in the qualifiers is against Sao Tome in September this year.

Nigeria secured six points after their opening g two victories, Guinea Bissau on four points, Sierra Leone on one point and Sao Tome with no point after two matches in the race to Ivory Coast.

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Former Chelsea winger and Cote d’Ivoire international Salomon Kalou has signed for AS Arta Solar 7 on a short-term contract. 

Kalou, 36, is set to play CAF inter-club competition with the Djiboutian champions As Arta Solar 7 next season. 

Kalou will now be teammates with ex-Cameroon goalkeeper Idriss Carlos Kameni, Alexandre Song Billong, Dany Nounkeu, Diafra Sakho and Alain Traoré.

AS Arta Solar 7 completed a double at the end of 2021-22 after they clinched the Djiboutian League and Djiboutian Cup titles.

Kalou, who is junior brother to former Cote d’Ivoire player Bonaventure Kalou started his career at ASEC Mimosas before joining Dutch side Feyenoord in 2003.

After two seasons in the Dutch top-flight, Kalou signed for English Premier League side Chelsea FC for a fee of around £9 million.

He won the Premier League, FA Cup (4 times), League Cup, Community Shield and the UEFA Champions League during his time in England from 2006 to 2012.

Kalou was a member of the Cote d’Ivoire team that won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea after beating Ghana in post-match penalty shootouts.

He later joined French Ligue 1 side LOSC Lille and also played for Hertha Berlin in Germany and Brazilian club Botafogo before becoming unattached last year.

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