SLFA Needs To Liaise with The NOC SL For Preparation of Los Angeles Olympic Games
Football is part of the Olympic Games in the whole world. Football apart from Athletics is one of the sports that fans always eager to watch during the Olympic Games.
The game covers both the women and the men football teams. The age limit for the men’s football is 23 years plus three over age players.
The performance of shooting Stars very recently in the Africa U-20 nation’s cup showed that Sierra Leone has the team to qualify for the 2028 Olympic Games.
In the above competition in Egypt, Sierra Leone went onto the semi-final stage but failed to qualify for the U-20 World Cup. Fans are expecting the technical team for SLFA to start earlier preparation as very soon the International Olympic Committee will release fixtures for the Olympic Games qualifiers.
The executive of the National Olympic Committee is also expecting the new SLFA executive to pay a courtesy call on them to discuss about the upcoming Olympic Games and other benefit they will get from the NOC.
It has been a while that the football executive only partakes in congress organized by NOC and they hardly come to the office to update the NOC executive about their activities.
After the elective congress, the NOC executive congratulated Babadi and his executive and extended invitation to them to come to their office and present their executive to them like how the other Olympic sports are doing.
Already, they have visited the Ministry of Sports, National Sports Authority and State House to pay a courtesy call on President Bio but yet to do the same to the NOC executive.
Qualifying for the Olympic Games will increase the number of the delegation for the Games. Olympic football after the world cup is the next tough global football competition.
Two Africa countries have won gold in the football competition. Among the two countries Nigeria won the gold in 1996 after defeating Argentina in the final match, Argentina won the Silver while Brazil won the bronze medals.
Cameroon won the gold in 2000 followed by Spain who won the silver medals and Chile won the Bronze medals. In the last Olympic Games in Paris, Spain won the gold as the host France won the silver another Africa country Morocco won the bronze medals after winning the 3rd place match.
According to history, Great Britain and Hungary are the two nations that have won the most gold medals three times each in the men’s Olympics football.
Great Britain won the first ever men’s gold in 1900. The format of the Men’s Olympic football tournament is played in group stage onto the knock-out stage which includes the quarter-final semi-final and the final in line with the football rules.
