ISSA Undermining
Female Soccer?
-Willie Disagrees
By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.
The President of the Inter-School Sports Association (ISSA)
has cited reasons that led to the exclusion of female soccer in the
annual school games.
With football, basketball and kickball being the
only events featured in ISSA games, there have been mounting concerns
about the absence of female football in the events.
Those who run female football are with the view that if
the game must develop, it should begin from the schools.
Reacting to the claims, ISSA President Joseph F.
Willie laid the blame on successive leaderships of the female football
standing committee of the Liberia Football Association (LFA).
ISSA President Willie explained that when the
game was introduced two years ago, promises were made to boost the
efforts by the governing body of school sports by providing footballs
and trophies.
Yet, Mr. Willie disclosed that following the maiden
edition, which was won by the Calvary Temple Assemblies of God (AG)
School, LFA officials, notably Mrs. D. Sheba Browne and Mr. Francis
Karpeh, could not be found to fulfill their pledges, thus sending the
game down the drain.
However, Mr. Willie assured that as a result of a
meeting he held with newly-elected female soccer representative on the
LFA Executive Committee, David Kortie alias 519, there would be female
football next season.
He added that even if it would cause ISSA to conduct
the games on a knockout basis, there would indeed be female football
next time around.
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