Witch Hunt Against Theo Weeks


By Staff Writer

At long last the Lone Star is in the hands of a host of ex-internationals who from all indications are bad examples as they are virtually penniless despite all the many years playing professional football overseas but are being assisted or accommodated by the Liberia Football Association (LFA) president, the bemused Musa Bility just to enable them “get something” as they hide behind experience and “Weah XI” to cling onto the national team.

With the quartet of Kelvin Sebwe, Joe Nagbe, Janjay Jacobs and Thomas Kojo on the senior national team as technical staffers, the Lone Star look like being mortgaged as several younger players are being sidelined , something they and their cronies call “payback time”, and with a rubber stamped coach in an unknown and underachieving Italian, Roberto Landi who from all indications is tactically maladroit and indecisive, the Lone Star is in the hands of the so-called best who have begun getting at those they see as threats.

It was quite a surprise that Kelvin and his accomplices dropped the Turkish based midfielder Theo Weeks, who was considered man of the match against Mali in Bamako when the lad scored his first international goal for the red, white and blue outfit in the 2-1 defeat. The reasons Kelvin and the underachiever Italian dropped such an informed star are quite simple and you can sit back and read with much comprehension.

Followers of the Lone Star will concord that the former Watanga central midfielder was a revelation of the team during the 2010 qualifiers. The youngster, who is now plying his trade with MKE Ankaragücü in the Turkcell Süper Lig, was a mainstay in German Coach Antoine Hey midfield at the expense of the former Toulouse midfielder Kelvin Sebwe. This was one of the reasons the curl-legged player had to go into a forceful exit from the Lone Star

Kelvin was recently quoted as saying “I don’t like Theo’s style”. This is something that can be interpreted as “this was the kid that was preferred to me, and so anything he does will not be loved by me, as I am now in the driver’s seat, and I can do anything I wish”.

With Romanian based harder worker Ben Teekloh out for six months, pundits believe Theo Weeks, one of the best youngsters Liberia can boost of, should be the man to fill the void if Lone Star will make amends against Zimbabwe in Harare on September 4.

To beat Zimbabwe especially in Harare, Lone Star needs some defend oriented stars who will tackle most of the offence oriented stars being called up by Zimbabwe in such a crunch duel in Harare.

Theo Weeks, the box to box midfield maestro, who just returned from Portugal and Holland on preseason with MKE Ankaragücü should not be left out if Liberia mean business for a place in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon for the 2012 Africa cup of nations finals.