Few days ago, Sierra Leone Football Association presented national teams coaches to the Ministry of Sports in Freetown.
Among the coaches were coaches appointed for U-20, U-17 and U-15 national teams both male and female.
According to the Sports Minister, Ibrahim Nyelenkeh, the coaches will be signing three years contract each.
He went on that the contract is going to be a performance contract in which if a coach fails to perform, he will lose his job.
But as they are waiting for the ban on all sports activities to be lifted, he told them to start their job now as coaching is not just on the field of play.
This is the time he said they should now look at places were to scout out players. Time to sit down together and draw a plan on how they are going to do their jobs, he said.
Football experts and analysts also thanked the FA and the government for employing coaches for all categories.
They described the idea as the correct way to develop the game from the grassroots. But the concern they raised is that the FA needs to organize youth leagues to enable the coaches to scout out players for the national teams.
Few years back, Mini-leagues were more concentrated on organizing youth leagues which they said will help the game to grow.
UK base Sierra Leonean born sports journalists Alie Bitarr said it would have been a mandate for all premier league clubs to have a youth team if the finance is there like in Europe and other countries. Alie went on that if the FA fails to organize youth leagues the coaches will end up getting free salaries. Some football experts said the Mini-league organizers should reverse to organizing youth leagues than leagues which the teams use the same players that are playing in the premier and division1 leagues.
