Sierra Leone | Amputee Soccer League | One World Futbol

The Sierra Leone Amputee Soccer League was started in 2001. When founder Mambud Samai, a minister and a refugee in Guinea himself, was repatriated to an Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Sierra Leone, he found himself in the company of 230 amputees. He saw how desperately they needed trauma recovery therapy, but he didn't know how to help them. A chance meeting with an elderly missionary from Seattle, WA., an amputee herself, exposed Mambud to the idea of amputee football. The missionary sent Mambud a rulebook and a video of how the sport is played, and he started a league. Mambud knew in his heart that even young men without legs or arms could find healing through the power and camaraderie of sport -- through playing the game that they loved, the most popular game in the world. "The players know that they are not alone in their amputations. Even though they are now spread throughout the country, they come together to play football.

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