LFA Champions LISCR FC get ready to host Ghanaian Football Champion Berekum Chelsea


Monrovia - Liberia Football Association Premiership Champion LISCR FC will on February 19, 2012 host Ghanaian Football Champion Berekum Chelsea at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia.

The match is in the preliminary rounds of the Confederation of African Football Club Championship competition. The match is the club first international engagement since its formation in 1995.

The team has been involve in insensitive preparation for the encounter and has also recruited some of the best talents in the country. Some of those recruited include Marcus Macaulay from the Monrovia Club Breweries, Trokon Zeon from Invincible Eleven, Joshua Morris from LPRC Oilers, and Gideon Williams from Watanga FC amongst others.

The team under the guardian of former Lone Star player and coach Frank Jericho Nagbe is prepared to host the Ghanaian and is currently designing strategists that would outclass the Ghanaians. The team has been undergoing training for the past two months and players are said to be in high spirit for the match.

The team is expected on camp this weekend and would remain there until the second leg which is scheduled for March 3, 2012 in Accra, Ghana.

Referees for the match would come from Morocco while the Match Commissioner would come from Gambia. Tickets prices for the match are as follow: VIP-20USD, Around VIP-5.00USD, Stadium Wing-150 LD, Around the Field-100LD.

A 32 man Berekum Chelsea delegation is expected to arrive in the country on Saturday February 18, 2012. The delegation includes 20 players, Seven Technical men, three management members and three journalists.
Meanwhile, LISCR FC is calling on its fans, supporters and soccer lovers to come with their Vuvuzelas, drums and Sasa and cheer LISCR to victory on February 19, 2012 at the ATS.