{"id":439527,"date":"2011-06-10T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/10\/sierra-leone-tetteh-welcomes-newcastle-move\/"},"modified":"2011-06-10T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:21:09","slug":"sierra-leone-tetteh-welcomes-newcastle-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/10\/sierra-leone-tetteh-welcomes-newcastle-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Tetteh Welcomes Newcastle Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.1480133455\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Concord Times (Freetown)<\/p>\n<p>9 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Freetown \u2014 Sierra Leone and AIK Solna striker, Ibrahim Tetteh Bangura will welcome a move to English Premier League side Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, reports in various British media say Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew is tracking the Sierra Leone international striker dubbed &#8216;the new Didier Drogba&#8217;. The striker has exclusively told Concord Sports he will welcome a move to the English Premier League as it is the dream of every young player to play in bigger leagues.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I was very happy to receive such news because it is the dream of every footballer to play at the top level in football. You know playing from the junior level you need to progress, so such news was welcome information for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Already the 21-year-old believes he can cope with the English game and can adapt as quick as possible. &#8220;You know in football I always see myself as top because we are all playing the game; lots of African footballers have played there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our football legend, Mohamed Kallon was able to play in the Italian league, even Rodney Strasser is currently playing in the Italian league. So I believe I have the potential to play in the English league.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The AIK Solna striker is already making the headlines in Sweden after playing just eight league games and scoring four goals.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Bangura scored his first senior goal for the national team Leone Stars in their 1-0 win over Niger at the National Stadium in Freetown to revive the Stars&#8217; hopes of qualifying to the 2012 African Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea\/Gabon.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106100988.html\" title=\"Sierra Leone: Tetteh Welcomes Newcastle Move\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sierra Leone: Tetteh Welcomes Newcastle Move<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Concord Times (Freetown) 9 June 2011 Freetown \u2014 Sierra Leone and AIK Solna striker, Ibrahim Tetteh Bangura will welcome a move to English Premier League side Newcastle United. Recently, reports in various British media say Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew is tracking the Sierra Leone international striker dubbed &#8216;the new Didier Drogba&#8217;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":439528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-439527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sierra Leone: Tetteh Welcomes Newcastle Move - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/10\/sierra-leone-tetteh-welcomes-newcastle-move\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sierra Leone: Tetteh Welcomes Newcastle Move - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Concord Times (Freetown) 9 June 2011 Freetown \u2014 Sierra Leone and AIK Solna striker, Ibrahim Tetteh Bangura will welcome a move to English Premier League side Newcastle United. 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