Zah On
Target For Sriwijaya FC!
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By Roland M. Mulbah
rolandmulbah@liberiansoccer.com
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Liberian International player, Zah Rahan
Krangar, who plies his trade with Indonesian top rated football
club Sriwijaya, was on target for his side in a crucial 1-1 draw
against PSM Makassar as the league began over the weekend.
Rahan, as he is widely known in the biggest
Asian country, scored from a one to one situation after receiving
a killer pass from his team captain in the 67 minute of the
ambitious encounter as Sriwijaya FC went in front.
A defensive blunder in the closing moments of
the clash saw PSM Makassar equalized as the match ended 1-1.
In a telephone interview with Zah, who wears
the #10 jersey for Sriwijaya FC, he told liberiansoccer.com he was
glad to be on the scoring sheet even though his side did not win.
“Scoring on the opening date of the league
against top rated team is great, but it hurts went you don’t win
especially after taking the lead.
“Though it is still very soon but I want to
continue such fantastic form in my quest to lead my team,
Sriwijaya FC to win silverwares this season,” the young Liberian
International player noted.
The calm and soft spoken master dribbler is
also a member of the senior national football team of Liberia,
Lone Star.
The "little" Zah Rahan Krangar is a player
with immense qualities. His sublimes skills, vision and trickery
are qualities that make him a night mare for opposing defenders
and asset to club mates.
Featured as a kid for the national U-13,
U-14 and U-15 which made headways in the Scandanavia Fater making
in-roads in the Gothia and dana Cups in Sweden and Denmark
respectively.
The lad was voted Most Valuable Player (MVP)
in the LFA Third Division playoffs after his side Ducor Defenders
pinned Gardnersville based Haja FC in the grand final, courtesy of
the golden goal rule in 2000.
He along with long time friend and
International teammate Dioh Williams had a stint in Switzerland
with cadet side Juventus.
He as well had a stint at the youth system of
Ghanaian elite side Asanti Kotoko widely known as the Porcupine
Warriors with the famous saying "you kill thousand, thousand will
come".
His hunger for top flight football took him
to Cameroun where he styled for Racing Baffoson of Bamenda in the
Cameroonian top flight and also showed case his talent with
Panthere of the same central African country.
The skill workshop then moved to Indonesia
and impressed at Persikabpas and despite repeated calls by that
country's football authorities to naturalize him due to his
dazzling skills and constant knack for goals, he turned down such
a lucrative offer and chose to doom the red, white and blue colors
of his country and marked his international debut with a goal away
to host Equatorial Guinea in his side 2-1 loss.
Voted MVP in the Indonesian top flight in
2006, the tiny but silky footballer is indeed a formidable face on
television, in newspapers, magazines and his name is a house hold
word in many quarters as far as football in the World largest
Muslim state, Indonesia is concerned.
despite plying his trade in what is generally
regarded as a modest or less fancy league, Zah, the "Little box of
tricks" is one of few players the future of the National team of
Liberia, Lone Star precariously rest upon in the years to come.
With the factual thought that "where one
plays matters, but what one plays matters most, and it does not
matter where one plays but what one plays, Zah, though in the
virtually less glamorous league of Indonesian, his competitors and
even the most unrealistic of critics can safely say he is a gem
and is certainly a class act who is capable of conjuring and
wooing any group of fans or international skills with his
sublimely gifted qualities.
