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Former FC Kallon Duo: We miss the team’s playing style but we feel happy joining East End Lions Football Club

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson
Former FC Kallon duo Masalakie Bangura and Kenewa Stevens have revealed that although they are missing their former club’s playing style, they feel very happy joining the 2018-2019 Sierra Leone Premier League Champions East End Lions Football from “the Cavaliers”. “We are missing Kallon FC's style of football, the fans and former teammates of the club that groomed us up but we feel very comfortable in our new home East End Lions, a side that is very ambitious to always win,” the duo told AWE-Media.SL. The duo, Kenewa Stevens and Masalakie Bangura both holding and attacking midfielders expressed they are indeed missing a lot from their former club where they grew up passing through the various youth system of the club owned by the Former Sierra Leone, Monaco and Inter Milan Football Star, Mohamed Kallon. Kenewa Stevens who had skipped “Cavaliers for over ten seasons becoming the longest serving team captain of the club shocked the football family in Sierra Leone after he was unveiled by East End Lions Football Club after a record transfer worth the sum of One hundred million Leones-(Le 100,000,000) a transfer deal that was halted initially by the management of FC Kallon who denied having any transfer dealings for the player and thus eventually sought for redress and later the Stevens was cleared to don the Red and White shirts of “the Killers” starting last February. Steven’s saga followed his former FC Kallon team mate Masalakie Bangura who had earlier abandoned training with his former club to join “the Killers” before the start of this season and later his transfer saga was amicably been resolved between the two managements of both FC Kallon and East End Lions Football Club.
Both Bangura and Stevens are currently excelling for their new club East End Lions Football Club where the officials and fans are celebrating the former FC Kallon duo. They players said: “they are looking forward to winning this season’s national men’s top-tier where they currently sit top with 44 points after 22 matches.”

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