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SLASA demolish Makeni Amputee on their home turf

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson 

 

On their home turf, the Makeni Single Leg and Amputee Sports Association Football team was demonized 2-0 by the National side on Friday evening at the Wusum Stadium.

Both goals were scored in the second half following a goalless first half and Gbassay Koroma, one of the two Sierra Leone Single Leg and Amputee Professional Footballers plying his in Turkey who scored the second goal for the Single Leg and Amputee Sports Association of Sierra Leone -(SLASA) Football Team said “it feels good to play against my former teammates after a while.”


Koroma adds that he’s impressed by the good show put up by his former Makeni teammates despite the number of challenges they are faced with to play Single Leg and Amputee Football locally. 

“What I’ve felt and saw during the match is a good signal that our nation is gifted with a number of talented players at local level and if they are given the much needed support our national team can be more competitive at all levels in world Amputee and Single Leg Football, and we will bring Laurels home,” said SLASA Skipper and Turkish based International Foday James Lumeh who made history a year as the first-ever SLASA football to earn a professional contact and he has been honored as the Sierra Leone Ambassador for Single Leg and Amputee Football.


On their part, the SLASA  Regional Branch Manger In Makeni Mr. Timbo blamed their Head Coach’s wrong substitution made in the second half as the reason for the team’s defeat but expressed confidence in his team, says they will do more when they support beseeching for public financial and material support to be accorded to the team.

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