Botswana start Women’s AFCON preparations 

Botswana start Women’s AFCON preparations 

The Botswana women’s team have started their preparations ahead of their maiden TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.

The Mares knocked out Zimbabwe in the last round of the qualifiers to book a spot in the competition scheduled for 2-23 July in Morocco.

Togo, Burkina Faso and Burundi are the other debutants in this year’s tournament.

Zambia and South Africa make it three COSAFA nations that have qualified for the Women’s AFCON.

Coach Gaoletlhoo Nkutlwisang’s charges are currently in camp where she has called up new players in order to create a bigger pool and competition in her squad.

Nkutlwisang will host a series of camps in the build-up to the competition before she announces her final squad.

“I have called a few more players to create competition, no one should be comfortable, we all need to work hard to be ready for WAFCON. We need all players to know the philosophy and what we expect of them, hence why we will have three players to six players in a position. WAFCON is not far so we also need to closely observe our fitness,” she told Cosafa.com.

The Mares will be in camp until 15 April.

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Wright makes IK Sirius debut as Kamara, Williams on target

Wright makes IK Sirius debut as Kamara, Williams on target

Sierra Leone left-back Kevin Wright made his Swedish Allsvenskan debut with IK Sirius on Sunday in their 2-1 win over GIF Sundsvall.

Wright, 26, who was part of the Sierra Leone Medeterean trip in Turkey last month during the Fifa window, played for 15-minute when he was introduced to replace Aron Bjarnason.

It was his pass in the 85th minute that Onil Christian Kouakou converted to help IK Sirius to a 2-1 victory at the Studenternas IP, Uppsala arena.

“Always happy to assist the winning goal and most importantly get the three points, time to push on,” Wright told FSL News.

In the MLS, veteran striker Kei Kamara opened his account with the Canadian on Saturday as CF Montréal defeated FC Cincinnati 4-3 at TQL Stadium.

Kamara’s goal in first-half stoppage time was his first in the league since Oct. 3, 2020, with Minnesota United FC and gave him 131 total against 24 different MLS clubs.

He’s now two goals away from tying Jaime Moreno at 133 MLS goals for the fourth-most in league history.

In the USL championship, striker Augustine Williams scored his second of the season as Charleston Battery fell 1-2 to Las Vegas Lights FC on Friday in the first meeting between the two clubs.

Williams opened the scoring for Charleston Battery in the 8th but was not enough for his side as Daniel Trejo Del Rio’s brace saw the visitors take home maximum points.

The Charleston will return to action at home Wednesday, April 6, when they host South Georgia Tormenta FC in the Second Round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.

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Attacker Idris Kanu has confirmed his return to Northampton first-team training on Friday for the first time since February.

The Sierra Leone international suffered a fractured jaw against Walsall on February 5th and he underwent surgery on the 11 of February.

“I am back in training for the first time on Friday expected to be part of the team for my first game next week,” Kanu, 22, told FSL News.

The Cobblers are hoping to have ‘nearly everyone back from injury in the coming days as manager Jady Brady looking forward to a full squad his the race for promotion.

“It has been a big month for us in terms of the number of games we have played,” said manager Jon Brady.

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Speaking for the first time since his headline brace, he told Football Sierra Leone UK that his focus now is to keep developing in the process will enable him to play more games for the country. 

“I want to focus on my development at Tottehmham, which will help me move forward. At the same time, I am 100% looking forward to playing more games for Sierra Leone. International experience will be good for my development, ” Cesay told FSL News UK.

Kallum Cesay was one of the new names in coach John Keister’s new looks Leone Stars. He was named on the bench in the Leone Stars’ previous two fixtures in the 3-0 defeat to Togo on Thursday and Liberia’s 1-0 win on Sunday over Liberia. He was then selected to make his debut against Congo Brazaville before he became the star man of the day. 

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The Leone Stars moved from 107 to 108 in the World Ranking but maintained 24h on the Africa podium.

The West African nation set up its Mediterranean training camp in Turkey during last month’s Fifa international window in readiness for the 2023 Ivory coast African Cup of Nations qualifiers starting in June.

At the Mardan multi-purpose stadium in Aksu, Antalya, the Leone Stars suffered A 3-0 opening defeat to Togo on March 24th before winning their remaining two matches against Liberia on the 27th 1-0 and Congo Brazaville 2-1 on the 29th.

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