Another
Administrative Blunder in the LFA
By Emmanuel Towouh
Prior to the ongoing FA election, the
analyst website reported sometime last year that Izzetta Wesley paid a
visit to South Africa. The website went on to say that Wesley begged
the South African Sporting Authority to help Liberia. Unfortunately,
Wesley and her administration have to realize that begging is not an
option professional football authorities want to venture into. If you
decide to visit a huge football entity like that of the South African,
you must have a tangible program handy to present on the table, if you
want to seek partnership. Begging is not a program and not all
countries like people begging on them.
Those of us who understand the administrative aspects of business are
fully aware that our football governing body is not fully inclined
when it comes interpreting the game, or designing programs that will
attract supports. The LFA has influenced the game for decades in the
wrong directions including discouraging the use of foreign coaches.
“The country doesn’t have money to pay a foreign coach. Let’s use our
own local coaches.” This statement has been the speech from one LFA
president to another.
We have all seen the inexperience of our local coaches
including the presidents of the LFA. They have been given chances,
after chances over the years with no results. Astonishingly, the world
is again watching as Liberia prepares to elect another fail
administration-the same old recycled, self-taught officials of the LFA
that have not bring noting significant to game.
This huge blunder is again going to leave our youths less
exposed and our country seriously battered from one international
pitch to another. It is about time we stop making bad choices or
electing people on the basis of nepotism.
Recycling local coaches such as Kadalah Kromah, Vava George and Josiah N
Johnson or electing another corrupt LFA official, Siaka Sheriff, who
have served in the LFA for years without success will always fail our
country.
Siaka Sheriff has nothing to bring to the Liberian football
scene. He can’t read well or write well either. What does, he has to
bring that will bring about changes in Liberia football? After all the
wars we have gone through, one might think Liberians have now
developed a strong sense of electing the right people to the right
place like Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
It seems we are still far from this kind of thinking.
Do Liberians love individuals who enjoy pilfering public fund? The
world goes in coma at how we sometimes choose a leader.
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