Isha Tejan-Cole Johansen was born on 25 December 1965 and is a Sierra Leonean entrepreneur and the former president of the Sierra Leone Football Association.
15 Facts About Isha Johansen
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Isha Johansen is the owner and CEO of Sierra Leone National Premier League club Johansen.
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Isha Johansen was born as Isha Tejan-Cole in Freetown, Sierra Leone, into the Tejan-Cole family, who are of Aku Mohammedan descent.
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Isha Johansen was immersed in football from the very beginning, as her father co-founded East End Lions FC in Freetown.
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Isha Johansen's father took her to see football matches, and she played football with her brothers and their friends.
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Isha Johansen was educated at a convent school in Freeport and a boarding school in Yeovil, England.
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Isha Johansen founded her own football club, FC Johansen, in 2004.
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Isha Johansen was elected president of the Sierra Leone Football Association unopposed on 3 August 2013, after her main opponent, former Sierra Leone international footballer Mohamed Kallon was disqualified by the Sierra Leone Football Executive committee for not meeting the SLFA residency requirement in the country.
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When Sepp Blatter was pressured to step down as head of FIFA, Isha Johansen was touted as a possible successor in the press.
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Isha Johansen launched Powerplay, an initiative to encourage women and girls to play the game and to help empower them.
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Isha Johansen started the annual African International Youth Tournament in 2009.
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In June 2021, after an 8-year stint as president of SLFA Isha Johansen withdraw from an upcoming election, with her reasons being that her new role in the FIFA Council would demand her travelling globally and playing a higher level and more active role as a global ambassador for football and FIFA.
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Isha Johansen was succeeded as SLFA president by Thomas Daddy Brima on 5 June 2021.
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Isha Johansen founded the Pink Charity Fund to combat breast cancer in 2006 and the Women of Excellence Awards.
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Isha Johansen is married to the Norwegian Consul in Sierra Leone, Arne Birger Johansen.