With just two days to go before Sierra Leone take on Ivory Coast in the country’s most important match for over two decades at the Bouake stadium this Saturday, the controversy surrounding Sellas Tetteh’s side is ever growing.
According to Osasu Obayiuwana, who is a qualified lawyer but functioning, mostly, as a journalist, broadcaster and blogger for nearly 25 years now, Sierra Leone Ghanaian technician Sellas Tetteh…has had enough. “He is fed up and did not want Kei Kamara in the team that will face the African Champions, he revealed.
Osasu also stated, “Officials of the SLFA say @keikamara been imposed on Coach Sellas Tetteh, who emphatically DOES NOT want him for the match.”
When asked about this development, the Sierra Leone Sports Minister Ahmed Khanou in his response to the news stated, “I am not aware of this and you may be aware of the fact that Kei is en route to Abidjan, arriving this evening.”
The minister did not go any further.
Here are the ten strong points tweeted by producer/programme maker for SuperSport.
1.”There is a big fire raging in the Sierra Leone team, ahead of their qualifier against Cote D’Ivoire.
2.”Officials of the SLFA say @keikamara been imposed on Coach Sellas Tetteh, who emphatically DOES NOT want him for match.”
3.”During a chat with @ishajohansen2, who visited Abuja recently, she told me @keikamara described Tetteh as a “Kindergarten coach.”
4.”The statement @keikamara made was not said to Sellas directly. He made that statement, about Sellas, to me,” said @ishajohansen2.
5. “Sellas Tetteh is the only African coach to win the @FIFAcom WYC. He lifted the trophy in Egypt, with the Black Satellites in 2005.
6. “Sellas Tetteh, who is on loan to Sierra Leone, from @ghanafaofficial, only gets a match allowance from them. The SLFA is “broke.”
7. “Sellas Tetteh was reportedly summoned by Sports Minister when he was reportedly told he must field @keikamara in CIV.
8. “Sellas Tetteh told the S’Leone Sports Minister that “he does not need the player and does not fit into his plans for the AFCON QF.”Since @keikamara made the reported statement, about Tetteh, @ishajohansen2 says he is yet to tender an unreserved apology to the coach.
9. “Since @keikamara made the reported statement, about Tetteh, @ishajohansen2 says he is yet to tender an unreserved apology to the coach.”As it stands, Tetteh has contemplated throwing in the towel and could pack it in, after S’Leone’s final qualifier. He is fed up.”
10. “As it stands, Tetteh has contemplated throwing in the towel and could pack it in, after S’Leone’s final qualifier. He is fed up.”
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