By Abu Shaw in London (22/06/2021)
It was strange for the Sierra Leone President to even think about wanting to slash the number of Leone Stars’ players from 41 to 29 for the land gifts.
Last-minute U-turn by the Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio saw his promise realised to give monetary and land gifts to all 41 Leone Stars’ players for pipping the Squirrels of Benin. Despite behind the scenes hiccup to slyly reduce the number from 41 to 30 players for the cash and from 41 players to 29 for the land, President Bio finally changed his mind to dole out the sums of 4,100,000,000.00 Leones equivalent to 410,000.00 United States dollars and plots of land to 41 players of the National Football team Leone Stars. (Photo: The Leone Stars’ cheque).
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Keister has praised the contributions of his substitutes and explained why his side fell behind in the first half.
“It’s a good result away from home especially coming into Nigeria which we knew was going to be very difficult, we’re really happy,” Kester told Punch.
“We had a lot of respect for them in the first half. We showed them a lot of respect and that was why we had to come out and that was why we came out in the second half.
“The difference was the changes that we made. We got some players we left out in the first half and we were trying to work around the players we have, obviously, it didn’t work out so we had to make the change.