BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRO-SIERRA LEONEAN " IBRAHIM BALDEH " IS SIERRA LEONEAN/CANADIAN SOCCER PLAYER IN THE CANADIAN LEAGUE : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

Born: September 24, 1987 (age 26), Kabala

Biography: Ibrahim Baldeh (born September 24, 1987 in Kabala, Sierra Leone) is a Canadian soccer player. He started amateur soccer with the Montreal-Concordia AAA Soccer Elite Club from U14 to U18. Where he won the bronze medal at the Canada Games in 2005. And the gold medal at the Adidas Cup in the summer of 2005. With the U17 Quebec Team at the Canadian provincial select team championships he gold medal. In 2005 he was the leading scorer in his category in the Quebec Elite Soccer League. On May 9, 2006 he signed a three-year deal with the Montreal Impact of the USL First Division, but on August 1 he was loaned for the remainder of the season to the Laval Dynamites of the Canadian Soccer League. In 2007 the Impact released him from his contract after failing to make an appearance, but he would later on sign with newly expansion Trois-Rivières Attak of the CSL. With the Attak he won the Open Canada Cup, and finished runners-up behind the Serbian White Eagles in the National Division and helped them reach the playoffs but were eliminated in the semi-finals losing 2-1 to the White Eagles. The following season Baldeh helped the Attak claim the club's first National Division title