Christian Caulker is a Sierra Leonean footballer, who currently plays for Vasteras SK

Västerås SK Fotboll

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Career

The first choice goalkeeper of Sierra Leone National Premier League

Sierra Leone National Premier League

Sierra Leone National Premier League is the top football league in Sierra Leone. It was founded in 1967. The league is sponsored by the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank, one of the major Sierra Leonean banks. East End Lions and Mighty Blackpool are the two biggest and most successful clubs. The...

 club F. C. Kallon

Kallon F.C.

Kallon Football Club commonly known as F.C. Kallon, formerly Sierra Fisheries, is a Sierra Leonean football club based in Freetown. The club is one of the top clubs in the Sierra Leone National Premier League and play their home games at the National Stadium in Freetown.-History:The club is named...

 moved in January 2011 on loan to Vasteras SK

Västerås SK Fotboll

Västerås SK is a Swedish football club based in Västerås. The club, formed on 29 January 1904, is currently playing in the third highest Swedish league, Division 1 Norra.-Players:...

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International career

Caulker has been the number one goalkeeper for the Leone Stars since making his international debut gainst Guinea Bissau on October 15, 2007.

He started in all six games for Sierra Leone at the first round group stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup

2010 FIFA World Cup

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 qualifier against Equitorial Guinea, Nigeria

Nigeria

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 and South Africa

South Africa

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. Caulker is highly regarded as the best Sierra Leonean goalkeeper at this time. Caulker was the first-choice goalkeepoer for Sierra Leone U-17 team and at the 2005 UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup

2005 UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup

The 2005 UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup was the 2005 edition of the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup and was held in Turkey.-The Group:-The Results:---------------------------------------------------------------------Cameroon :-Egypt :...

 in Turkey

Turkey

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Family heritage

Christian Caulker is of Sherbro

Sherbro people

The Sherbro people are a native people of Sierra Leone, who speak the Sherbro language; they make up 3% of Sierra Leone's population or about 201,000. They are also known as the Bullom people...

 and Creole

Sierra Leone Creole people

The Sierra Leone Creoles, or Krios, are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone, descendants of West Indian slaves from the Caribbean, primarily from Jamaica; freed African American slaves from the Thirteen Colonies resettled from Nova Scotia; and Liberated Africans from various parts of Africa...

 parentage. Historically intermarriage among Creoles and Sherbros was frequent during the 19th and 20th centuries. Caulker is a descendant of the prominent Caulker

Sherbro Caulkers

The Caulkers of Sherbro are an Afro-European Sherbro clan of the region of Southern Sierra Leone and they ruled as chiefs in Shenge and Bonthe. In the 18th century the Caulkers began to get involved in the slave trade and became more powerful than the white slave traders...

 Family of Sherbro and English

English people

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 descent. The Caulkers originate from Bonthe District

Bonthe District

Bonthe District comprises several islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the southwestern coast of Sierra Leone and a mainland area. Its capital is the town of Mattru Jong and the largest town in the district is Bonthe, on Sherbro Island and the town of Masabendu....

in Southern Sierra Leone.