Portsmouth defender Mustapha Dumbuya (in photo) has been commended for putting up a good performance for Leone Stars against Tunisia\u2019s Carthage Eagles in a 2013 Nations Cup last round qualifying match last Saturday in Monastir, Tunisia.<\/p>\n
It was Dumbuya\u2019s first appearance for Sierra Leone after he had watched Leone Stars playing twice from the bench against Sao Tome & Principe and Tunisia in Freetown respectively.<\/p>\n
Leone Stars Coach Lars Olof Mattsson said Dumbuya played well and he was happy with his performance adding that \u201cI\u2019m proud of him and the other players who fought hard in Monastir.\u201d<\/p>\n
Veteran star striker Mohamed Kallon who didn\u2019t play but was on the bench said: \u201cDumbuya surprised me because he worked very hard on the pitch and he played his role well.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy with his performance and it was a good debut for him. He has speed and is difficult to beat on the ball. He reminds me of Frances \u2018Zarpa\u2019 Koroma.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dumbuya himself was pleased with his debut as he is looking forward to playing more matches for Leone Stars.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pleased with my performance on my debut despite I didn\u2019t play the best of my game. I was nervous at the beginning but as the game went on I was growing stronger and stronger,\u201d the 25-year old told SWASAL.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI worked very hard as I tried to give everything I had. I always wanted to play for Sierra Leone and I\u2019m looking forward to play more matches.\u00a0 Hopefully we can do well in the next round of World Cup matches and we can revenge on Carthage Eagles because you always want to go to places where you were beaten wrongly as in the case Tunisia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dumbuya was born in Sierra Leone but grew up in the United Kingdom and carries dual nationality.<\/p>\n
By Mohamed Fajah Barrie in Monastir (Credit: SWASAL, Sponsors: Mercury International)<\/em><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Portsmouth defender Mustapha Dumbuya (in photo) has been commended for putting up a good performance for Leone Stars against Tunisia\u2019s Carthage Eagles in a 2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[1476,6161,13277],"class_list":["post-48806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-leone-stars","tag-mustapha-dumbuya","tag-sierra-leone-vs-tunisia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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