FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — For the last two and a half years, Isha Johansen has been throwing punches, both real and metaphorical, as the president of Sierra Leone’s soccer association, one of just a handful of women in the world to have ever held such a post.
But, sitting in an upmarket hotel perched above the sprawling western edge of Freetown, Ms. Johansen said the past month had been tougher than most in the chaotic world of soccer politics here.
In December, she was removed from her job by the government following a squabble within the Sierra Leone Football Association, which she heads.