Nahim Khadi
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Nahim Khadi is a former Sierra Leonean international football star and the current president of the Sierra Leone Football Association
. He was elected to the position in 2004, after defeating his closest rival, Joseph Samba Kelfala during the 2004 election. He was born to Sierra Leonean-Lebanese
parents.
Khadi played for Sierra Leone national football team known as the Leone Stars during the sixties and seventies and also turned out for five local clubs including the country's two biggest and most popular clubs, East End Lions
and Mighty Blackpool
. Nahim Khadi is also one of the first Sierra Leonean people of full Lebanese
origin to represent Sierra Leone at any sport.
On the 20th of July 2008 he was re-elected as president of the Sierra Leone Football Association
His son is international player Nahim Khadi, Jr.
Sierra Leone Football Association
The Sierra Leone Football Association is the governing body of football in Sierra Leone. It was founded in 1967, and affiliated to FIFA the same year. It is also a member of the Confederation of African Football from 1987. It organizes the national football league and the national team...
. He was elected to the position in 2004, after defeating his closest rival, Joseph Samba Kelfala during the 2004 election. He was born to Sierra Leonean-Lebanese
Sierra Leonean-Lebanese
-Migration history:Lebanese immigrants first came to West Africa in the mid-19th century when a silk-worm crisis struck their homeland, then part of the Ottoman Empire; the first Lebanese arrived in Sierra Leone in 1893. The first groups were Maronite Christians, but beginning in 1903, Shia Muslim...
parents.
Khadi played for Sierra Leone national football team known as the Leone Stars during the sixties and seventies and also turned out for five local clubs including the country's two biggest and most popular clubs, East End Lions
East End Lions
East End Lions is a Sierra Leonean professional football club based in the capital Freetown. They play in the Sierra Leone National Premier League, the top football league in Sierra Leone. they are one of the two biggest and most successful football clubs in Sierra Leonean football history;East...
and Mighty Blackpool
Mighty Blackpool
Mighty Blackpool is a Sierra Leonean football club based in the capital Freetown. They play in the Sierra Leone National Premier League, the top football league in the country. Blackpool represent the West End of Freetown and their home games are played at the National Stadium in Freetown...
. Nahim Khadi is also one of the first Sierra Leonean people of full Lebanese
Lebanese people
The Lebanese people are a nation and ethnic group of Levantine people originating in what is today the country of Lebanon, including those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state....
origin to represent Sierra Leone at any sport.
On the 20th of July 2008 he was re-elected as president of the Sierra Leone Football Association
Sierra Leone Football Association
The Sierra Leone Football Association is the governing body of football in Sierra Leone. It was founded in 1967, and affiliated to FIFA the same year. It is also a member of the Confederation of African Football from 1987. It organizes the national football league and the national team...
His son is international player Nahim Khadi, Jr.
Nahim Khadi, Jr.
Nahim Khadi, Jr is a Sierra Leonean international footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Dartford in the Ryman Premier League in England and for the Sierra Leone national football team. He has most notably played for Coventry City and Crystal Palace before moving down to the lower...
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