James
Salinsa Debah, Why The Disgrace?
Football is the World’s most popular sport – at such, those who play
this globally entertaining game must do so with high degree of
discipline, sportsmanship and subscribe to its golden rules.
Soccer players are required to at all times approach the game of
football with a very high level of discipline which will eventually
be comminuted into success of the individual or his team.
Secondly, discipline would lead to satisfying the increasing
entertaining desire of the general football world which includes the
spectators and the various football Federations.
To go contrary to the laws laid down to be followed by footballers
is synonymous to rebelling against one’s own team or country.
And so the recent action by James "Salinsa" Debah who defiantly
refused to adhere to a substitution call made to him during the
Liberia/Togo joint African Nations and World Cups qualifier played
at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex is an act of indiscipline
that must be condemned and punished by Liberian soccer lovers.
For a man such as Salinsa, an internationally exclaimed Star, no one
would have ever dreamed of the Liberian Celebrated Star refusing to
honor the request of the technical staff of his country’s national
team in the face of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and
the Federation of International Football (FIFA) match officials as
well as his home fans.
Salinsa’s action is truly alien to modern football from which he has
benefited enormously.
Substitution of players, during the game of football is a normal
routine for Technical Administrators of every football team, even
very good soccer players and goal-scorers, are often substituted by
their Technical Mangers for professional reasons and based on
scientific studies of the game.
Without any personal protestation, substations are regularly made in
football matches the world over.
For a man who commands a recognizable respect from many soccer fans
at home and abroad to have disgracefully treated the Lone Star
Technical Team and the Liberian spectators with disdain during an
international football encounter is not only an act of indiscipline,
but a conspicuous mark of shame brought on the Liberian people in
front of hundreds of visitors by this highly controversial figure.
Truly, the attitude exhibited by James Salinsa Debah in front of
these strangers is a big disgrace and a shame to the entire Liberian
nation.
Debah who is at the verge of retirement from the game of soccer
should by now be establishing himself truly as a role model by
demonstrating high degree of respect and obedience not only for
soccer officers of Liberia but his fellow compatriots.
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