Personal information | |||
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Full name | John Jebbor Sherington | ||
Date of birth | 1952 (age 70–71) | ||
International career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1972 | Sierra Leone | ? | (?) |
Managerial career | |||
1996–97 | Sierra Leone | ||
2003–06 | Sierra Leone | ||
2015 | Sierra Leone |
John Jebbor Sherington (sometimes spelt as John Sherrington or Jeboh Sherrington) is a former head coach of the Sierra Leone national football team.
As a player, he represented Sierra Leone in the 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign, playing against Ivory Coast in October 1972. [1]
In 1996-1997 and from 2003 to 2007, Sherington was the head coach of the Sierra Leone. [2] He was an assistant to Brazilian José Antonio Nogueira from 1997 to 2003. He was sacked in October 2007. [3]
He was appointed as national team coach in June 2015. [4]
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