By Mohamed Macarthy (Media Carth)
The aspiration of Bo Rangers Football Club’s Executive Chairman, Babadi Kamara, for the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) presidency has been received with high hopes and optimism from meaningful sport-loving Sierra Leoneans taking into cognizant the prevailing leadership quagmire that SLFA faces over the years which has had ripple effects on Leone Stars’ Male National Team as well as some of the domestic leagues across the country.
A few years back, when our domestic leagues were being withheld based on leadership struggle or supremacy in SLFA, in 2018-2019, when President Bio revamped our domestic leagues, which was a U-Turn in the history of football in Sierra Leone and for us to equally identify some of our potential talents and showcase them to the world. At that moment, Babadi Kamara deemed it prudent to join forces with other personalities in Bo City and beyond to give their fullest attention to the current defending champions of Sierra Leone Premier League, then (SLPL) and now Leone Rock Premier League (LRPL) Bo Rangers FC.
His presence as Executive Chairman for Bo Rangers FC has evolved the overhaul structure of the team. It has made it compelling and admirable during renowned FCs at national and international levels, which have also created huge indelible blueprints in the football arena.
Babadi’s exemplary and exceptional leadership acumen and nimbleness have taken Bo Rangers FC to the international limelight on two consecutive occasions with an impressive and scintillating performance from the players even though they were unable to move to the ultimate peak of those tournaments as expected from Sierra Leoneans home and abroad. His aspiration for the highest position in the football environment is borne out of his desire to put necessary and formidable infrastructures in place to help transform and rebrand our national team and local Football Clubs, being highly recognized and represented in most international matches.
In 2021, Babadi was appointed as the Leone Stars Male National Team Manager. Leone Stars was already qualified for the AFCON in Cameroon. It was a jubilant and reverberating mood for our national team to re-surface on the globe. He led the Leone Stars Delegation to Cameroon, and there again, he inspired and motivated the entire team, which apparently helped the players to put up their very best in the tournament since it has taken Leone Stars decades not to be part of the tournaments for an abysmal performance from both the team and management.
As someone who means well for the growth of football and other related sporting activities in Sierra Leone and by way of pragmatizing it, he had singlehandedly constructed an ultramodern mini stadium, the Southern Arena in Bo City, with considerable sitting accommodations. Southern Arena had been certified by FIFA to host international matches. Irrespective of the fact that BBD focuses his entirety support to Bo Rangers FC, he sometimes extends his goodwill gestures to other FCs across the country to bolster the welfare of their teams.
Babadi’s aspiration for SLFA’s presidency in 2025 is a clarion call and a turning point in Sierra Leone’s football history. Sierra Leone has gotten potential players determined to put the national flag on the globe. However, we do not have fair and reasonable leadership that would work in the country's best interest of various sporting activities. SLFA has not administered the required leadership style incredibly. Giant shenanigans and kickbacks surround them. Thus, this leads to our disgraceful performance in most of our international matches. With Babadi in the race as one of the kingpin aspirants, his presidency will be an incredible bastion and beacon of hope for all Sierra Leoneans. BBD is committed to ensuring Leone Stars and other local Football Clubs are highly represented at the international apex. Sierra Leoneans, we are faced with two crossing paths: the incumbent, who has not done much as expected, and BBD, who has already exhibited his outstanding leadership drive with undeniable proven track records, which make him the most apt for SLFA’s presidency. A visionary, transformational, and integrity leadership, nothing else, is what SLFA needs.
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