Isha Johansen

Isha Tejan-Cole Johansen (* 1965 in Freetown , Sierra Leone ) is a Fußballfunktionärin and since August 3, 2013 President of the Sierra Leone Football Association Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA). She is one of only four women in history to head a national football association.

Johansen is the owner and Chief Executive Officer of the first division club FC Johansen , whose greatest success was winning the national cup in 2013 .

Life path

Johansen, née Tejan-Cole , is Muslim and belongs to the Oku or Krio people . She was born into a soccer-crazy family. Her father co-founded the East End Lions , Sierra Leone's most successful club team.

Johansen went to school in Yeovil, England , among other places . It is with the Norwegian consul in Sierra Leone, Arne Birger Johansen , married

Football official

Johansen founded FC Johansen in 2004 with the aim of promoting young people who were affected by the civil war in Sierra Leone . Until 2011, the club played second class, sooner he was promoted to the Premier League.

On August 3, 2013, Johansen was elected President of the SLFA after its worst competitor, ex-national player Mohamed Kallon , was excluded from the election for formal reasons. Kallon took action against this decision, but it was supported by FIFA .

Johansen has been discussed in the press as a possible successor to FIFA President Sepp Blatter .

On September 7, 2016, Johansen was arrested together with SLFA Vice President Briam Kamara and Secretary General Christopher Kamara on the instructions of the Anti-Corruption Commission , because the SLFA had not submitted any financial reports under their leadership. The three were released on bail a little later . FIFA had announced in a statement that it was behind the three suspects and did not assume any irregularities. At the end of 2018, the Sierra Leones Football Association was suspended by FIFA. After an acquittal in the corruption proceedings in June 2019, Johansen and her deputy were rehabilitated and the association was re-approved by FIFA.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OluwaBusayo Sotunde: Meet Isha Johansen - Sierra Leonean Entrepreneur and Football Enthusiast . October 10, 2012 .: "The 47-year old business savvy entrepreneur ..."
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Johansen to be first female president of SLAFA . August 2, 2013. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Lydia Smith: Sierra Leone's FA president Isha Johansen: Meet Africa's most powerful woman in football . In: International Business Times , November 21, 2015. 
4. ↑ Anna Kessel: Sierra Leone's Isha Johansen blazes trail amid tragedy and infighting . In: The Guardian , January 24, 2015. 
5. ↑ ISHA JOHANSEN becomes first woman SLFA President . In: africayoungvoices.com . Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 1, 2019. 
6. ↑ Fresh turmoil in Sierra Leone football elections as former player Kallon disqualified . In: insidethegames.biz .
7. ^ AllAfrica.com: Sierra Leone: Kallon, Rodney React to SLFA Disqualification . In: allAfrica.com .
8. ↑ Mohamed Fajah Barrie: BBC Sport - Fifa endorses decision to ban Kallon from SLFA election . In: BBC Sport .
9. ↑ James Masters: FIFA elections: Should football elect a woman to replace Sepp Blatter? . CNN . 4th February 2016.
10. ↑ Desmond Kane: Why can't Isha Johansen be FIFA's first female president? . Eurosport . 18th November 2015.
11. ^ Umaru Fofana: Sierra Leone Football Association officials arrested by anti-graft agency . September 8, 2016. 
12. ^ Top Sierra Leone FA officials spend night in jail in corruption investigation . September 8, 2016. 
13. ^ Fifa backs Sierra Leone FA in use of funds . BBC News. September 21, 2016.
14. ↑ FIFA's normalization committees: What are they and how do they work ?. GhanaWeb, March 7, 2019.
15. ↑ FIFA lifts suspension against Sierra Leone. Ran.de, June 3, 2019.