Mohamed Kallon MOR was born on 6 October 1979 and is a Sierra Leonean football manager and former player who is the manager of the Sierra Leone national football team.
37 Facts About Mohamed Kallon
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Mohamed Kallon was a striker and played for Inter Milan from 2001 to 2004, competing for spots with players such as Christian Vieri, Ronaldo, Alvaro Recoba, Adriano, Hakan Sukur and Nicola Ventola.
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Mohamed Kallon is widely considered the most famous footballer from Sierra Leone.
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Mohamed Kallon subsequently had short stints in Greece, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and China.
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Mohamed Kallon made 39 appearances for the Sierra Leone national team during his career.
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Mohamed Kallon was born on 6 October 1979 in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
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Mohamed Kallon attended primary school in Kenema and completed his secondary education at St Edwards Secondary School in Freetown.
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Mohamed Kallon is indeed spotted by Ali Abdullah, while playing a game with friends, on a beach in Freetown.
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Eager to discover foreign countries, and pushed by his father, Mohamed Kallon accepts the offer and travels with Ali Abdullah, only 15 years old.
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Mohamed Kallon spent one season with Spanga in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Mohamed Kallon was then loaned to Swiss Super League club AC Lugano, Serie A club Bologna and Cagliari, as well as Serie B club Genoa.
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Mohamed Kallon was farmed to Reggina and Vicenza in a co-ownership deal for an undisclosed fee and 9,000 billion lire respectively.
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Mohamed Kallon played with Cristiano Zanetti at Cagliari, whom he later worked with again at Inter Milan.
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Mohamed Kallon played in both games as a second-half substitute, for Alvaro Recoba and Hernan Crespo respectively.
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Mohamed Kallon tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone after the Serie A match against Udinese on 27 September 2003 and was banned from football for eight months.
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Mohamed Kallon was impressive during his first season at Monaco, but quickly fell out with French manager Didier Deschamps, and was relegated to the bench in March 2005.
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Mohamed Kallon moved on loan to Saudi club Al-Ittihad on 29 July 2005.
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Mohamed Kallon helped the team win the 2005 AFC Champions League, leading the competition with six goals scored, including goals in each legs of the semi-final and final respectively.
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Mohamed Kallon played at the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship with Al-Ittihad, before returning to Monaco in 2006.
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Mohamed Kallon played his last match in league play on 11 August 2007 against Lorient, the second match of the season, before he was released by Monaco.
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Mohamed Kallon underwent a trial with Birmingham City in September 2007, after previously being linked with Derby County in July.
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However, Mohamed Kallon failed to qualify for a work permit in England, as Sierra Leone ranked 79th in the FIFA World Rankings in September 1997, but the requirement was above 70th for non-EU internationals.
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Mohamed Kallon signed a six-month contract with Greek club AEK Athens on 29 January 2008.
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Mohamed Kallon played in the Super League Greece playoffs to determine qualification to European competition.
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Mohamed Kallon scored once in his three appearances, and AEK finished second to qualify for the following year's UEFA Cup.
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Mohamed Kallon was released from his contract after a few months due to poor performances.
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Mohamed Kallon returned to Kallon ahead of the 2012 CAF Confederation Cup, and scored the winning goal that got them to the second round.
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Mohamed Kallon became the youngest player to ever play for the Leone Stars when he made his senior international debut for Sierra Leone at the age of fifteen in April 1995 against Congo in the 1996 African Cup of Nations qualifier in Freetown, in which he scored the winner.
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At the age of 16, Mohamed Kallon was the youngest player at the 1996 African Nations cup in South Africa.
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Mohamed Kallon was the captain of the Sierra Leone national team but quit his captaincy after the team failed to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2010 African Cup of Nations.
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Mohamed Kallon is the founder and owner of the Sierra Leonean club Mohamed Kallon, currently playing in the Sierra Leone National Premier League.
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Mohamed Kallon is one of the top clubs in the Sierra Leone National Premier League and play their home games at the National Stadium in Freetown.
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Previously known as Sierra Fisheries, Mohamed Kallon acquired the club in 2002 for $30,000.
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Mohamed Kallon won the Sierra Leonean FA Cup, the Sierra Leone League title in 2006 and qualified for the African Champions League.
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Mohamed Kallon is a devout Muslim and a member of the Mandingo ethnic group.
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Apart from the Kalleone Group of Company, comprising a musical recording studio, radio station, newspaper, sportshops, old Skool night club, pharmacy and FC Kallon, Mohamed Kallon is about to launch his charity foundation, the MKCF, Mohamed Kallon Children's Foundation, which will cater for the needs of hundreds of Sierra Leone's street children.
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Recently Mohamed Kallon told SierraEye Magazine that as a boy himself who grew up in the streets of Freetown he is moved by the state of Sierra Leone Street Children and want to do all he can to help them.