Mohamed Kallon
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | [1] | 6 October 1979||
Place of birth | Kenema, Sierra Leone | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||
Position(s) |
Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1994 | Old Edwardians | 14 | (4) |
1994–1995 |
Tadamon Sour | 24 | (15) |
1995 | Spånga | 0 | (0) |
1995–1999 | Inter Milan | 0 | (0) |
1995–1997 | → Lugano (loan) | 18 | (1) |
1997 |
→ Bologna (loan) | 2 | (0) |
1997–1998 |
→ Genoa (loan) | 26 | (10) |
1998–1999 | → Cagliari (loan) | 26 | (6) |
1999–2000 |
Reggina | 30 | (11) |
2000–2001 |
Vicenza | 25 | (8) |
2001–2004 | Inter Milan | 45 | (14) |
2004–2007 | Monaco | 49 | (12) |
2005–2006 |
→ Al-Ittihad (loan) | 26 | (12) |
2008 | AEK Athens | 11 | (3) |
2008–2009 |
Al-Shabab | 4 | (1) |
2009–2010 |
Kallon | 11 | (2) |
2010 |
Shaanxi Baorong Chanba | 21 | (7) |
2011 |
Viva Kerala | 0 | (0) |
2012–2014 |
Kallon | ||
Total | 337 | (114) | |
International career | |||
1995–2012 | Sierra Leone | 39 | (8) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mohamed Kallon
Before playing for Inter, Kallon had one-year stints at Serie B club Genoa, and the Serie A clubs Bologna, Cagliari, Reggina and Vicenza. After leaving Inter in 2004, Kallon played at Monaco for three years. He subsequently had short stints in Greece, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and China.
He made 39 appearances for the Sierra Leone national team during his career. Kallon is the younger brother of former Sierra Leonean international footballers Kemokai Kallon and Musa Kallon.
Early life
Kallon was born on 6 October 1979 in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Kallon is the younger brother to former Sierra Leone international footballers Kemokai Kallon and Musa Kallon. Mohamed Kallon attended primary school in Kenema and completed his secondary education at St. Edwards Secondary School in Freetown.
During his early international career for Sierra Leone, Kallon was given the nickname Small Kallon by Sierra Leonean football fans because he was the youngest of the three Kallon brothers in the Sierra Leone national team.
Club career
Early career
After he completed his form three levels of education (
After the 1994–95 season, Kallon left Old Edwardians and signed for Lebanese club
Eager to discover foreign countries, and pushed by his father, Mohamed Kallon accepts the offer and travels with Ali Abdullah, only 15 years old. First on the side of Ajman, where the test turns out to be inconclusive, before finally catching the eye of the staff of Tadamon Sour, the club from the city of Tire. Kallon will thus spend the 1994-1995 season there, scoring 15 goals in 24 games, despite six difficult first months, due in particular to the cold Lebanese winter.
He spent one season with
Inter Milan
2001–02
After the abolition of the non-EU quota for each team halfway through the
2002–03
He played nine times scoring five goals in Serie A in
2003–04
Kallon tested positive for the banned substance
Monaco
Kallon signed a four-year contract with Monégasque club Monaco before the start of the 2004–05 season, as the UEFA Champions League runners-up had lost Dado Pršo and Fernando Morientes.[14] He 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.
He moved on loan to Saudi club
He played 12
AEK Athens
Kallon signed a six-month contract with Greek club
Greek fans remember him especially for an excellent goal against PAOK in a 4–0 win, when he scored with a chip shot outside the box.
Al-Shabab
He moved to
Kallon
In October 2009, he signed for his own club Kallon.[22]
Later career
On 1 March 2010, he joined the Chinese championship, signing a one-year deal with
He returned to Kallon ahead of the 2012 CAF Confederation Cup,[29] and scored the winning goal that got them to the second round.
On 26 June 2014, was named the head coach of Sierra Leone u-17 side.[30]
On 22 March 2016, he announced his retirement as a player, having last played in 2014.[31]
International career
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. At the age of 16, Kallon was the youngest player at the 1996 African Nations cup in South Africa. He scored one of his country's two goals as Sierra Leone defeated Burkina Faso 2–1 in their opening group match at the 1996 African Nations Cup, played at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Since then, he is the key member of Leone Stars and active at
Club owner
Kallon is the founder and owner of the Sierra Leonean football club
Kallon won the Sierra Leonean FA Cup, the Sierra Leone League title in 2006 and qualified for the African Champions League.
Personal life
Mohamed Kallon is a
Mohamed Kallon Children's Foundation
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 also 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.[36] 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. The foundation has made headways recently meeting with the president and working together with the United Nations and other NGOs to provide help for several Sierra Leonean children and also aiding the HIV/AIDS sensitisation programme in Sierra Leone. x The setting up of MKCF by Kallon gained massive media coverage and even the BBC reported on it.[37]
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Old Edwardians | 1992–93 | Sierra Leone National Premier League |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
1993–94 | Sierra Leone National Premier League |
27 | 12 | 27 | 12 | |||||||
Total | 27 | 12 | 27 | 12 | ||||||||
Tadamon Sour
|
1994–95 | Lebanese Premier League | 24 | 15 | ||||||||
Lugano (loan)
|
1995–96 | Swiss Super League | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
1996–97 | Swiss Super League | 17 | 1 | 17 | 1 | |||||||
Total | 18 | 1 | 18 | 1 | ||||||||
Bologna (loan)
|
1997–98
|
Serie A | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | – | – | 6 | 2 | ||
Genoa (loan) | 1997–98 | Serie B | 26 | 10 | – | – | 26 | 10 | ||||
Cagliari (loan) | 1998–99 | Serie A | 26 | 6 | – | – | 26 | 6 | ||||
Reggina
|
1999–2000 | Serie A | 30 | 11 | 7 | 3 | – | – | 37 | 14 | ||
Vicenza
|
2000–01 | Serie A | 24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 24 | 8 | ||
Inter Milan | 2001–02 | Serie A | 28 | 9 | 0 | 0 | – | 11 | 6 | 39 | 15 | |
2002–03 | Serie A | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | 15 | 4 | ||
2003–04 | Serie A | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
Total | 42 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 61 | 19 | ||
Monaco | 2004–05 | Ligue 1 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 44 | 11 |
2006–07 | Ligue 1 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 12 | 2 | ||
2007–08 | Ligue 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | ||
Total | 49 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 58 | 13 | ||
Al-Ittihad (loan) | 2005–06 | Saudi Premier League
|
26 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 32 | 18 | ||||
AEK Athens | 2007–08 | Super League Greece | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | |
Al Shabab
|
2008–09 | UAE Pro-League
|
4 | 1 | ||||||||
Kallon
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2009–10 | Sierra Leone National Premier League |
11 | 2 | ||||||||
Shaanxi Baorong Chanba
|
2010 | Chinese Super League | 21 | 7 | ||||||||
Total | 337 | 114 |
International
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Sierra Leone | 1995 | 4 | 2 |
1996 | 5 | 1 | |
1997 | 4 | 1 | |
2000 | 3 | 0 | |
2001 | 4 | 0 | |
2003 | 3 | 1 | |
2006 | 1 | 0 | |
2007 | 3 | 0 | |
2008 | 6 | 2 | |
2011 | 2 | 0 | |
2012 | 4 | 0 | |
Total | 39 | 7 |
International appearances and goals | ||||||
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# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Goal | Competition |
1. | 22 April 1995 | Republic of Congo |
Congo | 2–0 | 1 | 1996 African Cup of Nations qualification[39] |
3 June 1995 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Niger | 5–1 | 1 | 1996 African Cup of Nations qualification | |
15 January 1996 | Bloemfontein, South Africa | Burkina Faso | 2–1 | 1 | 1996 African Cup of Nations[40] | |
18 January 1996 | Bloemfontein, South Africa | Algeria | 0–2 | 0 | 1996 African Cup of Nations | |
16 June 1996 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Burundi | 0–1 | 0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
9 November 1996 | Rabat, Morocco | Morocco | 0–4 | 0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
11 January 1997 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Gabon | 1–0 | 0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
5 April 1997 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Ghana | 1–1 | 0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
26 April 1997 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Morocco | 0–1 | 0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
17 August 1997 | Obuasi, Ghana | Ghana | 2–0 | 1 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
22 April 2000 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | São Tomé and Príncipe | 4–0 | 0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
17 June 2000 | Lagos, Nigeria | Nigeria | 0–2 | 0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
9 July 2000 | Accra, Ghana | Ghana | 0–5 | 0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
29 October 2000 | Rome, Italy | Italy | 0–0 | 0 | Unofficial Friendly (for Foreigner of Italy)[41] | |
25 February 2001 | Paynesville, Liberia | Liberia | 0–1 | 0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
10 March 2001 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Sudan | 0–2 | 0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
21 April 2001 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Nigeria | 1–0 | 0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
14 July 2001 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Liberia | 0–1 | 0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
8 June 2003 | Casablanca, Morocco | Morocco | 0–1 | 0 | 2004 African Cup of Nations qualification[citation needed] | |
22 June 2003 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Equatorial Guinea | 2–0 | 1 | 2004 African Cup of Nations qualification[42] | |
12 October 2003 | Brazzaville, Republic of Congo | Congo | 0–1 | 0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
15 June 2005 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Guinea B | 2–0 | 1 | Unofficial friendly[43]
| |
24 March 2007 | Lomé, Togo | Togo | 1–3 | 1 | 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification[44] | |
7 May 2007 | London, United Kingdom | Leyton Orient | 4–2 | 1 | Unofficial friendly[45] | |
17 October 2007 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Guinea-Bissau | 1–0 | 0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
17 November 2007 | Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | Guinea-Bissau | 0–0 | 0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
1 June 2008 | Malabo, Equatorial Guinea | Equatorial Guinea | 0–2 | 0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
14 June 2008 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | South Africa | 1–0 | 1 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
21 June 2008 | Atteridgeville, South Africa | South Africa | 0–0 | 0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
6 September 2008 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | Equatorial Guinea | 2–1 | 0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
11 October 2008 | Abuja, Nigeria | Nigeria | 1–4 | 0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
9 February 2011 | Lagos, Nigeria |
Nigeria | 1–2 | 0 | Friendly |
- Scores and results list Sierra Leone's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kallon goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 22 April 1995 | Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, Brazzaville , Congo |
Congo | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1996 African Cup of Nations qualification |
2 | 3 June 1995 | National Stadium, Freetown, Sierra Leone | Niger | 1–1 | 5–1 | 1996 African Cup of Nations qualification |
3 | 15 January 1996 | Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein, South Africa | Burkina Faso | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1996 African Cup of Nations |
4 | 17 August 1997 | Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana | Ghana | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification |
5 | 22 June 2003 | National Stadium, Freetown, Sierra Leone | Equatorial Guinea | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2004 African Cup of Nations qualification |
– | 15 June 2005 | National Stadium, Freetown, Sierra Leone | Guinea B | 1–0 | 2–0 | Unofficial friendly
|
– | 7 May 2007 | London, England | Leyton Orient | 4–2 | Unofficial friendly | |
6 | 30 April 2008 | Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex, Paynesville, Liberia | Liberia | 1–2 | 1–3 | Friendly |
7 | 14 June 2008 | National Stadium, Freetown, Sierra Leone | South Africa | 1 (pen.)–0 | 1–0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification |
Honours
Al-Ittihad
Individual
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External links
- Mohamed Kallon – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
- Mohamed Kallon – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Mohamed Kallon at National-Football-Teams.com