Barrolle Players
Go On Strike
By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.
Players of Liberian football champions Mighty Barrolle have begun
boycotting activities of the team.
The players of the Red Boys are demanding several months of salary
arrears the team is alleged to have owed them.
The players action has affected the training sessions of the team in
recent days, with the entire squad failing to show up. Barrolle meets
Monrovia Club Breweries on Sunday.
The players of Mighty Barrolle have also demanded to know the value of
a purported agreement signed between the Rollers and a local mobile
phone company, CELLCOM. The jerseys of Mighty Barrolle have been
carrying CELLCOM at the front but neither the team s administration
nor the CELLCOM management been able to give explanations on the deal.
Mighty Barrolle failed to participate in the 2005 CAF Champions League
as champions of Liberia. The situation has prompted the departure of
some key players including Prince Garwo, Robert Teah, Joseph Sayon and
Nuku Granue to rival clubs NPA Anchors and LPRC Oilers.
The former Liberian Foreign Minister Lewis Browne has been bankrolling
the team since 1997, but with the former no more in government
activities, situation has been turning bad for one of Liberia s best
clubs in the country s football history.
Mighty Barrolle has lost all two matches it has played in the new
season. The Rollers lost 1-0 each to the LPRC Oilers and NPA Anchors.
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