By: Mohamed Abu Conteh
The Manager of the Sierra Leone National home-based team Alhaji Umar Bah on Monday 1st August 2022 at his Hill Station Office, presented the sum of Ten Thousand United States Dollars ($10,000), an equivalent of One Hundred and Thirty-Five Thousand Leones (Le 135,000), to the full squad of players and officials.
The presentation is in fulfilment of a pledge he made with a condition that the team defeats Cape Verde and progresses to the final phase of the 2022 CHAN Qualifiers.
Leone Stars ‘B’ side kept their end of the bargain having successfully progressed to meet Mali in the final phase of the Total Energies African Nations Championship (CHAN) Qualifiers following a 3-2 aggregate win over the Blue sharks of Cape Verde.
In a brief statement after the presentation, TM Alhaji Umar Bah who doubles as the CEO of Sierraminn Bauxite expressed great delight in having the opportunity to contribute to the development of Sierra Leone football. “Please accept this little token of support as we prepare for the final phase of the Qualifiers against Mali,” he added.
TM Bah ended by encouraging the team to “continue working hard in and out of the pitch and never stop putting smiles on the faces of our beloved football-loving Sierra Leoneans”.
Receiving the package on behalf of his teammates, the home-based captain Abu Bakarr Samura thanked the Team Manager for the “awesome gesture” and promised that he and his colleagues shall continue to deliver, stressing that their primary aim is “to qualify the country to the Total Energies African Nations Championship (CHAN) Algeria 2022”.
The Coordinator of Leone Stars Team-B Victor Lewis, who represented the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) at the presentation ceremony, thanked TM Alhaji Umar Bah for such “an altruistic and patriotic venture”. He promised to relay the good news to the President, Executive Committee, and General Secretariat of SLFA.
The Team Manager of the Leone Stars Home base team Alhaji Umar Bah made this promise to the team during a Press Conference before their departure to Morocco for the CHAN qualifiers and now he had to fulfil his promise to the team in other to boost the boys more as on the 28th August 2022 they will face Mali in the final phase of the CHAN qualifiers as the tournament is set to take place in Algeria in January 2023.
