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On October 22, 2011, Sierra Leonean soccer enthusiasts and others elated to learn about Bill Hamid’s successful selection to the USA national soccer team will have an opportunity to watch the soccer star in action, while supporting a worthy cause for Sierra Leone. The event is a USA Major League Soccer (MLS) match between D.C. United and Sporting Kansas City (SKC) scheduled to be held at the historic, forty five thousand seating capacity Robert F Kennedy (RFK) Memorial Stadium in Washington D.C.
Bill Hamid (photo), the offspring of Sierra Leonean parents, made his professional USA Major League Soccer debut in 2010 at the age of 19 years. With a win by his team D.C. United on that fateful day May 5, 2010 he holds the record as the youngest goalkeeper in MLS’s history to win a regular season game. At the October 22nd event, Sierra Leonean soccer fans will get an opportunity to meet Bill in person after the game. A percentage of proceeds from ticket sales for the match will go towards promoting children’s education in Sierra Leone, a cause supported by the soccer celebrity.
The benefit event is a culmination of months of ongoing negotiations between Save Sierra Leone Foundation’s executive member Coach Sully Hamid and the management of D.C. United. Coach Hamid (a.k.a. Passadie), the proud father of the soccer star and quite arguably his number one fan, is the owner of “Premier Athletics Club” a very successful Virginia based soccer training establishment. Comparable to his passion for soccer – Coach Hamid played seven years of professional soccer with the Queenspark Rangers (QPR) of the English Premier League – he is one of those rare breed of Sierra Leoneans, adorned with an unparalleled and almost religious like passion for helping others. To say that Coach Hamid is extremely devoted towards enhancing lives in Sierra Leone is an understatement, because he is all about that and so much more. The admirable fact that his son, Bill Hamid has chosen to actively embrace a similar path lends credence to the old African adage that “the coconut does not fall far from the tree.”
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