LFA Wants Coach Roberto Landi Stay

                                            Coach Roberto Landi
 

By Kolubah Zayzay

The Liberia Football Association is in talks with Lone Star Care Taker Italian Coach Roberto Landi to extend his already expired care taker coaching position with the senior national football team of Liberia.

Coach Landi took over as interim coach for the National football team of Liberia early March when the team’s main head coach the Hungarian Bertalin Besickai took ill and requested for a 90 day leave.

Since the death of the Hungarian coach from Liberia in this week there is a need for a replacement

Coach Landi’s three months care taking role with the Lone Star ended last June, but LFA President Musa Bility told sports journalists in Monrovia Monday “we are in talks with the Italian to extend his care taker role of the Liberia national team until the end of the 2012 African Cup’s qualifiers”.

Bility said the local FA’s top brass have expressed satisfactions over the performance of Coach Landi’s ninety days so far with the Lon Star Squad.

“The Liberia Football Association is very pleased with the performance of Coach Landi. We are so pleased that we have requested for an extension of his stay and that we are in negotiations with him to finalize the agreement”, said Musa Bility.


The LFA has confirmed they are holding consultations with some former players of the Liberia National football team to form part of Lone Star’s technical staff.

“As soon as I took office I made contacts with several former players to join the Lone Star coaching team including former team captain James Debbah. I’m going to continue the talks with him; we need to know what role he will like to play at the technical level”.
Bility said we can look at our current position and see if we can take him, but no decision on his appointment to the technical team has been made- .