{"id":6050,"date":"2010-02-22T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2010-02-22T12:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:50:27","slug":"sierra-leone-name-caretaker-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=6050","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone name caretaker coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Former Sierra Leone international Christian Cole has been named caretaker coach of the Leone Stars&#8217; African Nations Championship (CHAN) team by the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA). <\/strong><em>(Photo: <\/em><em>Christian Cole &#8211; back at the helm of the Leone Stars)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cole will guide the team of home-based players while remaining at the helm of the local Premier League side Mighty Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the SLFA General Secretary Alimu Bah, Cole will be in charge until a new full-time coach is appointed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 63-year-old replaces his former club and international team-mate Daniel &#8216;Diamond Toes&#8217; Koroma who died last month after long illness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve accepted my appointment and I&#8217;m delighted to serve my country,&#8221; Cole told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to do my best to make sure that I produce good results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His immediate task is to prepare a team to face the Guinea CHAN side in two separate friendly matches in Freetown on 5 and 7 March respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He&#8217;ll use these matches to prepare for next month&#8217;s first round CHAN qualifier against Senegal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cole has named a provisional squad of 40 players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The squad includes former Leone Stars captain Mohamed Kallon who now plays for his own club Kallon FC in the Sierra Leone Premier League.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cole has previously been in charge of the Leone Stars during the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He briefly served in the same capacity for two matches in the qualifiers of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has also coached the national U-17 side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By Mohamed Fajah Barrie, BBC Sport, Freetown <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sierra Leone international Christian Cole has been named caretaker coach of the Leone Stars&#8217; African Nations Championship (CHAN) team by the Sierra Leone Football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[2346,2347,2348,2349,1574],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-christian-cole","tag-mighty-blackpool","tag-mohamed-kallon","tag-sierra-leone-international-media-organisation","tag-slfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}