Coach Lardner Wake Held At Relatively Dark ATS!

        Coach Lardner’s body taken to VIP at the ATS

By Roland M. Mulbah

If dead body could express himself, Wilfred “Kajaniel” Lardner, the man who is on record as the first Liberian coach to take the National team of Liberia, Lone Star to its first Africa cup of Nations in South Africa 1996, would have been angry with the Government of Liberia, Liberia Football Association (LFA) and football lovers for the way his wake was held at the partly dark Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS).


                   Mrs Lardner (middle in white) looks annoyed

The fallen national hero’s wake started at the rather dark ATS with no representatives from the Government of Liberia, LFA, former Lone Star players and the Coaches Association to receive the body.

Does this show positive signal for Liberian football?

Who is responsible for the poor way the former Lone Star of Liberia head coach wake was carried on? That was the question everyone failed to answer as the poorly attended wake went on.

In an interview with www.liberiansoccer.com, the family stated that the Government of Liberia provided casket and the throne to bury the former Lone Star coach, while the LFA through its SG stated that the family only asked for facilities to have the wake.

Some expressed frustration in the LFA while others blamed the Government for not planning a State burial for the former National football coach.

Meanwhile, the fallen coach is expected to be buried Today, Saturday, May 30, 2007.

It is not yet clear whether the Government of Liberia will be represented, since there were no representatives at the beginning of the wake to receive the body.