Lone
Star- Might or Might Not Flourish
By Bruce Wiah-Liberiansoccer.com
September 15, 2003-The
assurance of Liberia’s participation in the preliminary rounds of the
2006 World Cup is almost marred.
Liberian football pundits are theorizing that football be shown the
red card for reasons, which are visibly associated with prevailing
circumstances in the war-ravaged country.
Scars of horrifying rebel assaults on a dazed population reducing
every nuts and bolts to debris are amongst clues igniting these
considerations.
“We’re mostly concentrated with re-building our lives than playing
football right now”, a Liberian refugee said.
Howbeit, other experts believe that re-structuring the pillars of the
FA and getting the programs well placed should bother the football
house foremost.
“If the essentials and basis are tempered with, we’ll also invite
total discredit to our football”, a veteran Liberian player told
Liberiansoccer.com.
But partisans of the FA are of the views that withdrawing from the
2006 World Cup preliminary is the worse thing Liberia would consider
now.
“Ignoring the recognition the game has on Liberia particularly when
football is most desired would be a deception”, one fan argues.
Others recounted the roles football played in breaking the artificial
divide that existed in the earlier part of the civil war.
“Lone Star and football are that we’ve and seeing them play again
after so much trouble would consolidate the peace being sought for.
Notwithstanding, one person that would guarantee Liberia’s
reappearance in the 2006 FIFA World Cup preliminary rounds is the
President of the FA.
Snowe told the BBC recently that he’s sacrificing a year out of his
studies to make amends for past lapses at the LFA.
He stood grounds for Liberia to honor its entire CAN 2004 qualifying
matches in the face of a row with the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
And with reasonably stable surroundings in Monrovia, pulling the
finances out of the mill might or might not see Liberia into the
preliminary.
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