Former East End Lions player has boost an inter-community football competition

The US-based  chief executive officer of Thunder Bolt football academy in Sierra Leone who is a   former defender of Eastern Lions Dede Abu, has supported friends of Attouga mini stadium football competition  with a giant gold trophy worth  hundreds of dollars as a way of promoting local   football in Sierra Leone.

Dede Abu is a Sierra Leone based soccer coach in USA working for thunder soccer association in Maryland. Under this association, coach Dede is in charge of two youth soccer teams, under-ten Celtics boys and under-fourteen Boca junior youth boys.

According to the former Defender Dede Abu, his good gesture to the FAMS0 organization is part of his work to see football gain life again in Sierra Leone.

He continued that he bought the trophy because he had access to trophies, and when he was approached by the chief Organizer Alimamy Sheriff, he felt obliged to give back to his discipline.

“It is my desire to see football play as there are a lot of opportunities for Sierra Leonean players across the globe, and with the right people manning football activities in the country, players and football stakeholders will enjoy the beauty of football” said Coach, Dede Abu.

He furthered that because he wants to see football at its peak in the country, he will give his best support through donations and contribution to football discipline.

Dede Abu called on football stakeholders to put Sierra Leone first and look at the bigger picture which is the future of the players and allow the game to play.

He also disclosed that he will be coming to Sierra Leone on November with three foreign coaches who will work with the locally based club coaches of Thunder Bolt FC to conduct clinic training in Freetown, Bo, Makeni, Kenema, Kono and Moyamba across the country.

“I want to encourage coaches and football administrators to raise the level of games played in Sierra Leone citing others countries in West Africa that have raised their game with long-term programs despite the politics evident in football”.

The friends of Attouga mini stadium inter community football competition will kick start on Sunday 2nd September 2018, in Freetown between Susan bay community and Kiss community.  Twenty-four communities are going to battle for the trophy, and the winning team will have a prize of twenty-five million Leones, and the second winning team will have a prize of fifteen-million Leones.

He concluded by wishing Sierra Leone’s national football team best wishes as they prepare to play its second match in the 2019 AFCON qualifier against Walliyas antelopes of Ethiopia, encouraging them to stay focused and return home victorious.

By Muctar Koroma

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