By Hassan Osman Kargbo
Following the arrival of the home-based delegation of the Sierra Leone National Senior Men’s Team, Leone Stars at Monrovia, Liberia, Sierra Leonean at home and abroad have called on the Leone Stars team to deliver for the people of the country.
The Leone Stars team is geared up for the Total Energies 2025 AFCON Qualifiers match against Chad, scheduled for Friday, September 6, 2024. The team is currently settled at the Boulevard Palace in Monrovia.
Seventeen foreign-based players are expected to join the squad later in Liberia as the team is in readiness for their first full training session at the SK D Stadium.
However, some football loving fans have been speaking about the issue of transparency in the football association. They said why the Sierra Leone football is lacking behind the issue of transparency from the SLFA body and even to some players. They said some players are receiving call-ups for the national team but they themselves knew that they’re not playing active football in their respective clubs but they could still come and failed the nation because they need the match bonuses which is not fair.
Abu Marrah said he had been following the Sierra Leone football for far too long and noted that accountability is totally missing in Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA). He said that there are no tangible things that SLFA can show or point fingers at to the people of Sierra Leone that this is what SLFA has done for the people at the time when we qualified to Africa Cup of Nations.
He noted that the only individual who he thinks can help to develop and improve Sierra Leone football is Mr. Babadi Kamara.
He added that Mr. Babadi Kamara has passion for football that’s one and Secondly he developmentally oriented, he pointed out many things that Mr. Babadi has in football arenas/fields “Sierra Leoneans prefer Mr. Babadi Kamara than any other person to mans the affairs of SLFA as President of SLFA, The plans of Mr. Babadi Kamara towards football are great and we need to give him the mantle of Presidency to transform Sierra Leone football to international standards,” he said.
