{"id":193956,"date":"2025-03-19T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-kei-kamara-returns-as-kallon-names-first-sierra-leone-squad-for-world-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:46:59","slug":"sierra-leone-kei-kamara-returns-as-kallon-names-first-sierra-leone-squad-for-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-kei-kamara-returns-as-kallon-names-first-sierra-leone-squad-for-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Kei Kamara Returns As Kallon Names First Sierra Leone Squad for World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Veteran striker Kei Kamara has been retained in the Sierra Leone national team as new head coach Mohamed Kallon named his first squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Guinea-Bissau and Egypt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The 40-year-old forward, who initially retired from international football in 2022, made a comeback four months ago, inspired by Cameroon legend Roger Milla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Kamara, who has 40 international caps and seven goals, has had a rollercoaster international career, retiring twice before returning to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190369.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran striker Kei Kamara has been retained in the Sierra Leone national team as new head coach Mohamed Kallon named his first squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Guinea-Bissau and Egypt. The 40-year-old forward, who initially retired from international football in 2022, made a comeback four months ago, inspired by Cameroon legend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,6674,14315,9699,26863,6572,8650,257,7318,5068,6571,1135,254,8984,5093],"class_list":["post-193956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-kallon","tag-kamara","tag-kei","tag-leone","tag-names","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-returns","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}