Friday, October 31, 2014

Sierra Leone soccer boss backs Nations Cup postponement over Ebola

Sierra Leone's Michael Lahoud fights for the ball with with Ivory Coast's Bony Wilfried during their 2015 African Nations Cup qualifying soccer match in Abidjan CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The president of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), who has seen the sport come to a "grinding halt" in her country because of the Ebola outbreak, has backed host Morocco's request to have the African Cup of Nations finals postponed. Isha Johansen also revealed that the SLFA has used money donated to the organisation by the sport's international governing body FIFA, which had been intended to develop football infrastructure, to drive charity projects raising awareness of how to avoid contracting the deadly disease. ...








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/sierra-leone-soccer-boss-backs-nations-cup-postponement-135414611--sow.html

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