{"id":232992,"date":"2026-05-12T03:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-sierra-leone-fa-contacts-former-scorpions-coach-for-leone-star-job\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:58:29","slug":"west-africa-sierra-leone-fa-contacts-former-scorpions-coach-for-leone-star-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-sierra-leone-fa-contacts-former-scorpions-coach-for-leone-star-job\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Sierra Leone FA Contacts Former Scorpions Coach for Leone Star Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has reportedly Contacted Belgian gaffer Tom Saintfiet as the Search for a new Coach for Leone Stars continues after sacking of Mohamed Kallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The former Scorpions tactician is identified as a front runner for the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The 53-year-old gaffer Left his Mali role earlier this year after a solid qualification campaign for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Sierra Leone is currently in a rebuilding phase after parting ways with their previous head Coach,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605110956.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>The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has reportedly Contacted Belgian gaffer Tom Saintfiet as the Search for a new Coach for Leone Stars continues after sacking of Mohamed Kallon. The former Scorpions tactician is identified as a front runner for the position. The 53-year-old gaffer Left his Mali role earlier this year after a solid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232993,"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":[258,256,7346,31976,9679,6572,257,20966,6571,1135,254,10128,4375],"class_list":["post-232992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-contacts","tag-job","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-scorpions","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star","tag-west"],"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\/232992","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=232992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}