By: Alusine Rehme Wilson
Highly rated football
youngster Suffian Kalokoh, who scored ten goals in the 2018/2019 Sierra Leone
Premier League and ended 3rd in the league behind Eastern Tigers and Eastern Lions
Bambay with 12 and Musa Tombo with
15 goals, is currently proving well at the SLFA football pitch in Kingtom in
Freetown, where himself and 50 other invited home based players are undergoing
training to catapults into the national Leone Stars squad, which is
expected soonest in September to face the Lone Stars of Liberia in the 2022
World Cup preliminaries Qualifiers.
Suffian 16, has scored (8)
eight goals in just five days of training with the national home base side all
against three of the five invited goalkeepers from top football clubs in
country, ranging from the League Champions E.E Lions 3, Runners up Kallon 2, Johansen
Goalkeeper 2, with the exception of E.E Tigers and Bo Rangers Goalkeepers who
are yet to conceive goals from the top striker.
This historic performance
of Suffian Kalokoh has not only memorized Sierra Leoneans watching the training
sessions but has also made him one of the favorite striker amongst team mates
in the team presently.
While in the north some
years ago, Kalokoh played for some big FCs including the Bombali District
football team Wusum Stars and later their rivals Bombali Shebora, where he
became the only player in the football history of the north and the entire
country to have scored 14 goals in a single match that was against Gborbana FC,
and 23 goals in six competitive games played in the 2018 Royal Friends football
Tournament.
He is also the only player
to have scored hat-trick in recent times against the National league defending
Eastern Lions in a pre-season friendly match that saw Coach Keister’s Boys
suffered a 4-2 defeat to Makeni United.
Kalokoh has been one of the
finest players from the northern region that is currently plying his football
trade in the country’s capital city Freetown, following his transfer from
Bombali Shebora to AIK United in Freetown in January this year on mutual
consent with his former club.
The front-line skipper
scored 10 goals for Old Edwardians in the just concluded national league which
prevented them from relegation spot, and immediately after the completion of
the league he was invited by the country’s football body (SLFA) to start
training with the National home base senior side.
His loan deal from AIK
United to Old Edwardians has not only help to market the lad the more but has
also motivated him to keep pursuing his long term dream to do more of his best
than before and for the country this time.
“I am known for raining
goal scoring and this accolade, I always want to keep and display for not only
top football clubs in my country but as well for our national senior side Leone
Stars. I want to accelerate my goal scoring potential with Leone Stars, which
is why I am doing my best with the National home base team presently to
catapults into the starting 11 of Leone Stars in the matches ahead of us in
both the 2021 and 2022 CAF, FIFA Nations and World Cup qualifiers and preliminaries
respectively to indelibly make my mark alongside senior colleagues to prove to
the world that our country got soccer idols too” Kalokoh said to Northern
Times.
A huge expectation is
coming home from fans, followers and other sports pundits that Suffian
Kalokoh’s brighter future in football is whooping and that his presence in the
national team will help end the age long problem of lack of goals scoring
deficiency in Leone Stars.
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