in all its sports disciplines.
It’s been an up and down course of progress made till date. What is evident though is that the country is not short of talented athletes as you could see flashes of brilliance exhibited here and there in various sports disciplines both within and outside the country.
One area in sports that the country had started making some significant progress in, was in Football where the national team had been doing so well at one time that their ranking in the world had risen to a very respectable level of 50th but this was back in August of 2014. . However, all that was negated when an epic struggle between the Isha Johansen Football Administration and most of the Football stakeholders around the country engulfed the game and literally sucked the life out of it. Hence the fortunes of Football which is the country’s most popular sport had all but faded. There has not been a functional national league play in the country
Sports in Sierra Leone has been on an uphill struggle to gain the respect and support it needs to build capacity and put the structures in place to develop a solid national program for most of its viable sports disciplines to thrive. We know for over a decade in the 1990’s and the early part of this millennium Sierra Leone suffered the scourge of a civil war which was followed by a number of issues from several health pandemics to natural disasters. These are circumstances that destroyed whatever structures that existed in the past in the form of a foundation to build up on to develop sports in the country. Essentially with the end of the war it was ground zero for the country and the long climb uphill back to respectability started for sports at both the local and the international level in the country.
Sierra Leone has had a couple of political administrations since the end of the war and both governments have tried in their own way to build a system and put the structures in place to build a program that will harness the country’s potential and develop winning teams
Sierra Leone's Minister of Sports Speaks about his term in Office
By Leslie Koroma Snr.
"Sports Management requires a 360-degree management approach"
Minister Ahmed Khanou