Ibrahim Khalil Tahini

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Ibrahim Khalil Tahini
Full name	Ibrahim Khalil Tahini
Date of birth	July 25, 1987 (1987-07-25) (age 20)
Place of birth	Freetown, Sierra Leone
Height	5'9
Playing position	Left winger/Striker
Club information
Current club	Bunkeflo IF
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	Old Edwardians Melleruds
National team
2005-	Sierra Leone
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Ibrahim Khalil Tahini (born July 25, 1987 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean international footballer who is a left winger for Bunkeflo IF in the Swedish second devision. He is a product of one of Sierra Leone's most famous football club Old Edwardians. He was a member of the Sierra Leone Under-17 team that lost to Cameroon at the 2003 African under-17 Championship in Swaziland, where he started in all five games. He was also a regular starter for Sierra Leone during the 2003 Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Finland. He made his senior international debut for Sierra Leone in a 2005 friendy match against Liberia in Freetown. He also featured for the Leone Stars (as the Sierra Leone national football team is known) during the 2005 Amilcar Cabral Cup (also known as Zone 2) held in Conakry, Guinea.

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Tahini was born and grew up in Freetown to Sierra Leonean-Lebanese parents (both were of mixed race). He was rated as one of the best young fooballers in Sierra Leone during 2002 and 2003. He is a gifted natural left footed player who plays primarily on the left wing in midfield, but he can aso play at supporting striker position. He joined Edwardians after he completed secondary school in Freetown. Tahini along with Samuel Barlay, Obi Metzger and Alimamy Sesay were Sierra Leone's key players during African 2003 under-17 Championship in Swaziland and the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Finland