Isha Johansen
| Isha Johansen | |
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| President of the Sierra Leone Football Association | |
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Assumed office August 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Nahim Khadi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Isha Tejan-Cole Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Nationality | Sierra Leonean |
| Spouse(s) | Arne Birger Johansen |
| Residence |
Freetown, Sierra Leone Chelsea, London |
Isha Tejan-Cole Johansen (born c. 1965) is a Sierra Leonean entrepreneur and the current president of the Sierra Leone Football Association. Johansen is one of only a few women in the world to have headed a national football association, along with Lydia Nsekera, the former president of the Burundi football association, Izetta Sombo Wesley, the former leader of the Liberia Football Association and Sonia Bien-Aime of the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association.
Isha Johansen is the owner and CEO of Sierra Leone National Premier League club F.C. Johansen.
Isha Johansen was born as Isha Tejan-Cole in Freetown, Sierra Leone, into the Tejan-Cole family, who are of Aku or Creole descent. She was immersed in football from the very beginning, as her father co-founded East End Lions F.C. in Freetown. Her father took her to see football matches, and she played football with her brothers and their friends.
She was educated at a convent school in Freeport and a boarding school in Yeovil, England.
She was raised in a religious Muslim family. She is married to the Norwegian Consul in Sierra Leone, Arne Birger Johansen.
Isha Johansen founded her own football club, F.C. Johansen, in 2004. The club was started with the objective of giving guidance and opportunities to children whose lives had been disrupted by the recent Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002). It began playing in Division One in 2011 and was promoted to the Premier League the following year.
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