Mohamed Kallon

Early career

After he completed his form three levels of education (grade 9 in the U.S.) from St. Edwards Secondary School in Freetown, Kallon signed with the local club, Old Edwardians of the Sierra Leone National Premier League. During the 1993–94 season, he scored four goals in 13 league games for Old Edwardians and became the youngest player to ever play and score in Sierra Leone National Premier League. After the 1993–94 season, Kallon left Old Edwardians and signed for Lebanese club Tadamon Sour. Kallon is indeed spotted by Ali Abdullah, while playing a game with friends, on a beach in Freetown. Son of a Lebanese diplomat living in Sierra Leone - Lebanon then already had many businessmen in West Africa - Abdullah praised Kallon's qualities to several relatives, and managed to obtain several trials for him in Lebanon. Eager to discover foreign countries, and pushed by his father, Kallon accepts the offer and travels with Ali Abdullah, only 15 years old. First on the side of Ajman, where the test turns out to be inconclusive, before finally catching the eye of the staff of Tadamon Sour, the club from the city of Tire. Kallon will thus spend the 1994–95 season there, scoring 15 goals in 24 games, despite six difficult first months, due in particular to the cold Lebanese winter. He spent one season with Spånga in Stockholm, Sweden. He was then signed by Inter Milan. He was then loaned to Swiss Super League club AC Lugano, Serie A club Bologna and Cagliari, as well…

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 1996 African Cup of Nations 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 Burkina Faso 2–1 in their opening group match at the 1996 African Nations Cup, played at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was a key member of Leone Stars and active at 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 World Cup qualification. Kallon was the captain of the Sierra Leone national team but quit his captaincy after the team failed to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2010 African Cup of Nations. His last game with Sierra Leone was on 16 June 2012, in the first round of the 2013 CAN qualification.

On 12 February 2025, he was appointed manager of Sierra Leone national team by the Sierra Leone Football Association. On 3 April 2026, he was dismissed by the Sierra Leone FA three days after a defeat in the penalty shoot out against Azerbaijan in the 2026 FIFA Series, having managed Sierra Leone for seven games with a record of three wins, two draws and two defeats.

Kallon was born on 6 October 1979 in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Kallon is the younger brother to former Sierra Leone international footballers Kemokai Kallon and Musa Kallon. Kallon attended primary school in Kenema and completed his secondary education at St. Edwards Secondary School in Freetown. During his early international career for Sierra Leone, Kallon was given the nickname Small Kallon by Sierra Leonean football fans to distinguish him from his two elder brothers who also then played in the Sierra Leone national team.