Gedi & Sons Frustrates LISCR!


             Gedi’s Mohammed broke LISCR’s heart at 90th minute

 By Roland M. Mulbah

Liberia Football Association (LFA) youthful premier club, Gedi and Sons frustrated LFA premiership sentimental favorite, LISCR FC with a crucial 1-1 draw in continuation of the current LFA premiership.

The kids achieved the feat on Sunday, May 17, 2009 at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS) in Monrovia.

LISCR’s Vitalis Siah drew first blood in the first half after Gedi’s goaltender Mulbah Uray blundered, but the kids were not deterred and mounted more pressure for the equalizer.

Gedi’s danger man, Andrew Dorley, alias “Kaka” came closed to rotating the score line, but thanks to a well organized first half LISCR defense that included Liberia’s Lone Star Captain Murphy Komonple Nagbe, George Baysah, Zayzay Kollie as well as the young defense hero Emmanuel Tarpeh as the first half ended in the Mustapha Raji boys’ favor.

Back from recess, the match was considered one way traffic as Patrick Garwo’s Gedi and Sons continued the pressure with Teku Nahn and Dorley at the helm of the attack.

Striker Nah, combined with local Kaka almost got the equalizer, but thanks again to the experienced LISCR defense as the match went to the dying moment.

Gedi defense ace in the form of Mohammed than scored the crucial goal that frustrated LISCR just a minute to the interval after the so-called LISCR experienced defense blundered completely to end the match 1-1..

After the match, the hero of the day, Mohammed, who scored the crucial goal told liberiansoccer.com “our coach told us to keep the faith because anything could happen in the match and that was what we did.

“We have not performed superbly for long now and we felt losing to LISCR would have killed our dream of going to the top a bit..

“We want to caution our many fans to keep courage as the league is still long,” the calm defender noted.

The lad than dedicated the goal to a special personality “this crucial goal is dedicated to our president Mr. Patrick Garwo who resides in the United States of America (USA).

“He has been there for us in terms of support in all aspects. Our salaries are on time as well as our equipments.

“He has always told us to keep together and fight for silver wear in the campaign,” the young defender noted.

Gedi & Sons Football Club is a club based in Monrovia, Liberia. The club home stadium is the Antonette Tubman Stadium (ATS). 

 Its President is veteran Liberian sports administrator and a former Executive Committee (EC) member of the Liberia Football Association (LFA), Mr. Patrick Garwo who resides in the USA.  

Gedi’s Operation man Patrick (far right with cap) posed with Captain and an official

The youthful LFA premier club crushed to the top flight of Liberian football (Premiership) after emerging as champions of the LFA first division in 2006.