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(born 6 October 1979) is a Sierra Leonean
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manager and former player who played as a striker. He is widely considered the most famous footballer from Sierra Leone. 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 Kemokai Kallon nickname Panbody (born March 17, 1972 in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who is currently playing as a Defender (association football), defender for Kallon F.C., where he is the captain of the team. He is th ...
and
Musa Kallon Musa Kallon (born 8 April 1970, in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a retired Association football, footballer and current coach in Sierra Leone. He is the older brother of Sierra Leonean international footballers Mohamed Kallon, and Kemokai Kallon. Pl ...
.


Early life

Kallon was born on 6 October 1979 in
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, Sierra Leone. Kallon is the younger brother to former Sierra Leone international footballers
Kemokai Kallon Kemokai Kallon nickname Panbody (born March 17, 1972 in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who is currently playing as a Defender (association football), defender for Kallon F.C., where he is the captain of the team. He is th ...
and
Musa Kallon Musa Kallon (born 8 April 1970, in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a retired Association football, footballer and current coach in Sierra Leone. He is the older brother of Sierra Leonean international footballers Mohamed Kallon, and Kemokai Kallon. Pl ...
. Mohamed Kallon attended primary school in Kenema and completed his secondary education at St. Edwards Secondary School in
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. During his early international career for Sierra Leone, Kallon was given the
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Small Kallon by Sierra Leonean football
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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 (
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in the
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) from St. Edwards Secondary School in
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in 1994, Kallon signed with the local club, Old Edwardians of the
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at the age of 15. During the 1994–95 season, he struck fifteen goals in 24 league games for Old Edwardians and became the youngest player to ever play and score in
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. After the 1994–95 season, Kallon left Old Edwardians and signed for Lebanese club
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. He spent one season with
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in Stockholm, Sweden. He was then signed by
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. He was then loaned to
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club AC Lugano, Serie A club
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and
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, and Serie B clubs
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He also farmed to
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and
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in a co-ownership deal for an undisclosed fee and 9,000 billion lire respectively (€4,648,112). He played with
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at Cagliari, whom he later worked with again at Inter Milan.


Inter Milan


2001–02

After the abolition of the non-EU quota for each team halfway through the 2000–01 season, Kallon returned to Italian club
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before the start of the 2001–02 season., for a reported 8,500 billion lire transfer fee (€4,389,884). With
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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also in the side, Kallon was originally a third or fourth choice striker. But injuries to Ronaldo and Recoba meant that Kallon played 29 Serie A matches, scoring 9 goals and becoming the team's second highest scorer of the 2001–02 Serie A season, behind Vieri, as the club narrowly missed out on the league title, finishing in third place, also reaching the semi-finals of the
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.


2002–03

He played nine times scoring five goals in Serie A in 2002–03 season due to injuries in August and February, as the team managed a second-place finish in the league. Kallon returned to the side in May after
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was injured in April. He also played both legs of the
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semi-final against
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as Batistuta was unable to register. He played in both games as a second-half substitute, for
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and
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respectively.


2003–04

Kallon tested positive for the banned substance
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after the
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match against
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on 27 September 2003 and was banned from football for eight months. Kallon then struggled to get into the starting eleven during the 2003–04 season, primarily due to the rise of young
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striker
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and the return of Brazilian ace
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.


Monaco

Kallon signed a four-year contract with Monégasque club
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before the start of the 2004–05 season, as the
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runners-up had lost
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and
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. He was impressive during his first season at Monaco, but quickly fell out with French manager
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, and was relegated to the bench in March 2005. He moved on loan to Saudi club
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on 29 July 2005. He helped the team win the
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, leading the competition with six goals scored, including goals in each legs of the semi-final and final respectively. He also played at the
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with Al-Ittihad before returning to Monaco in 2006. He played 12
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matches in his last full season with Monaco during the 2006–07 campaign. He played his last match in league play on 11 August 2007 against
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, the second match of the season, before he was released by Monaco. He underwent a trial with
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in September 2007, after previously being linked with
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in July. However, Kallon failed to qualify for a work permit in England, as
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ranked 79th in the
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in September 1997, but the requirement was above 70th for non-EU internationals. In November 2007, he signed a pre-contract with Al Hilal, but this later collapsed.


AEK Athens

Kallon signed a six-month contract with Greek club
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on 29 January 2008. He played for the capital club in the
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round of 32 against
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, but AEK lost 4–1 on aggregate, with no goals from Kallon. He also played in the Super League Greece playoffs to determine qualification to European competition. He scored once in his three appearances, and AEK finished second to qualify for the following year's UEFA Cup. 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 Al-Shabab of the United Arab Emirates in 2008. He was released after picking up a serious injury in an international match.


Kallon FC

In October 2009, he signed for his own club Kallon FC.


Shaanxi Baorong Chanba

On 1 March 2010, he joined the Chinese championship, signing a one-year deal with
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. Kallon made his
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debut against
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on 28 March and scored a
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in 50th minute. He decided to leave after his contract was finished in December to be closer to his family. He returned to Kallon F.C. ahead of the
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, 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. On 22 March 2016, he announced his retirement as a player, having last played in 2014.


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
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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
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2–1 in their opening group match at the 1996 African Nations Cup, played at the
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in
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, South Africa. Since then, he is the key member of ''Leone Stars'' and active at
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World Cup qualification. His most recent cap is on 9 February 2011 against
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in a friendly. Kallon was the captain of the Sierra Leone national team but quit his captaincy after the team failed to qualify for the
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and the
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.


Club owner

Kallon is the founder and owner of the Sierra Leonean football club
Kallon F.C. Football Club Kallon, commonly known as F.C. Kallon, is a football club based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded as Sierra Fisheries, the club is one of the top clubs in the Sierra Leone National Premier League and play their home games at the Na ...
, currently playing in the
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. 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. Previously known as Sierra Fisheries, Kallon acquired the club in 2002 for $30,000. Kallon FC won the Sierra Leonean FA Cup, and the Sierra Leone League title in 2006, and qualifying for the African Champions League.


Personal life

Mohamed Kallon is a
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and a member of the Mandingo ethnic group. Kallon is married to his childhood girlfriend M'mah Mansaray. The couple celebrated their wedding at the
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in
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on 15 June 2002. Kallon is the younger brother of former Sierra Leonean international footballers
Kemokai Kallon Kemokai Kallon nickname Panbody (born March 17, 1972 in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who is currently playing as a Defender (association football), defender for Kallon F.C., where he is the captain of the team. He is th ...
and
Musa Kallon Musa Kallon (born 8 April 1970, in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a retired Association football, footballer and current coach in Sierra Leone. He is the older brother of Sierra Leonean international footballers Mohamed Kallon, and Kemokai Kallon. Pl ...
.


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. 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.


Career statistics


Club


International

:''Scores and results list Sierra Leone's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kallon goal.''


Honours

Al-Ittihad *
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:
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Individual * AFC Champions League Top Scorer: 2005 *
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: 2013


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