Ten Pros May
Avoid Disaster
Oliver Makor Recalled to the Lone Star
By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.
The Liberia Football Association (LFA) has targeted ten overseas
players for the match with the Lions of Teranga of Senegal in the
joint 2006 African Nations Cup and World Cup qualifiers in Dakar on
March 26.
A bunch of locally based players were earlier called to make the trip
to Senegal, but the selection of the foreign-based players is seen as
a means of avoiding a disaster for Liberia in the match to come after
the Lone Star went down 3-0 in Monrovia last year.
Among the players named are Kelvin Sebwe, Oliver Makor, George Gebro,
Fallah Johnson, Anthony Ballah and John Meyongar. The rest are Dioh
Williams, Anthony Langford, Jimmy Dixon and Louis Crayton.
The foreign-based players are expected to be blended with their local
colleagues. Twenty-five local players are currently undergoing
training at the SKD Sports Complex in Paynesville under the tutelage
of caretaker coach, Joseph Sayon alias Kofi Bruce.|
There is no word from the Ministry of Youth and Sports as to whether
there will be funds to shoulder the coming of the players from abroad.
The Sports Ministry has repeatedly cried "no money" to hire players
from overseas.
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