BOYE COOPER TO
BE INTERRED NEXT WEEK- Corpse Flown Home
-Oppong Contributes US$1,000.00
Heritage Newspaper
The remains of Boye Cooper will be laid to rest late next week in
Monrovia.
According to family sources, the remains of the goalkeeper of the
Liberian national team, Lone Star, was flown home from the Ogun
State University Teaching Hospital Mortuary, at Shagamu, in Nigeria.
He will be interred on Saturday, July 17,2004.
The former celebrated Goalie died on 3rd June, in the Oru Refugee
Camp in the Federal Republic of Nigeria after a brief illness.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Heritage on Monday, in
Monrovia, Mr. George Telewoda, former Team Manager of the Invincible
Eleven (IE) said, the remains of the "Acrobatic goal tender" has
been deposited at the St. Moses Funeral Parlors, awaiting wake
keeping and burial.
Mr. Telewoda further disclosed that Liberian Soccer Legend, George
Oppong Manneh Weah donated US$1,000.00 to the late Boye Cooper’s
Family to fly the corpse back home from Nigeria, where the former IE
goalkeeper kicked out the ghost.
The Liberian Sport Administrator who is also heading a team of
volunteers that is working to give the fallen Liberian Hero a
befitting burial, informed the Sport Desk of the Heritage that a
group of former IE players in Philadelphia, the United States of
America has also contributed US$505.00 for the transportation of
Boye Cooper’s corpse from Nigeria to Liberia.
Mr. Telewoda said he and the late Boye Cooper’s wife, Mrs. Lucy
Cooper were finding it difficult to raise all of the money needed to
smoothly carry out the pre-funeral formalities of the deceased.
He used the occasion to appeal to the Ministry of Youth and Sports,
the Liberian Football Association (LFA) and all soccer lovers in
Liberia and abroad to contribute towards the home going of the
legendary National Goalkeeper.
Mr. Telewada also called on Mr. Lawrence Doe, former President of IE
and members of IE to support the worthy endeavor.
He also appealed to officials and members of Mighty Barrolle Sport
Association , other local sporting clubs and personalities and the
Liberian public to contribute to the funeral needs of the Goalkeeper
whose services to Liberia cannot be measured in dollars and cents.
Meanwhile, the Sports Department of the authoritative Heritage
Newspaper regrets the untimely death of the former Lone Star player.
On behalf of the Heritage Management, the department extends its
deepest sympathy and condolence to the bereaved family
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