New Team Set For
LFA
May
18, 2004 There are reports that a new breed
of soccer officials is in the making to succeed the current
leadership of the Liberia Football Association (LFA).
It has been reliably learnt from sources that a
four-man alliance has been set up to contest the LFA elections in
2005.
According to our source, former Lone Star captain George Weah
would vie for the post of president, while Pennoh W. Bestman is to
contest the elections to become Vice President for Administration.
When Weah declared his desire for the LFA leadership, there
were many who believed that the soccer prodigy was not qualified on
grounds that he did not head a club for at least two years.
Notwithstanding, later, Weah put arguments to rest last week when he
declared his qualification.
According to Weah, he is qualified because he served the LFA under
former president Edwin Snowe as Vice President for International
Affairs, a position he later resigned.
The man that is, meanwhile, eager to become Weah's principal
deputy is the Finance Ministry official and president of Black
Stars, Pennoh W. Bestman.
Bestman is to make another try after losing the elections of 2001 in
Kakata, Margibi County to Counselor Izetta Wesley.
With Counselor Wesley now serving as president, coupled with
the absence of a vice president for Administration, Bestman is so
far the only person interested in the post.
It was also disclosed that Wynston Doe has joined Weah's
train to become the Vice President for Operations of the LFA.
Doe is the president of Alliance FC, a team owned by
the popular Lebanese entrepreneur George Haddad.
Mr. Gus Shakespeare Doe-Williams, an unknown stranger to
Liberian football, is expected to be part of Weah's team but with
interest in returning to the post of Secretary-General.
Mr. Williams, prior to going abroad to study soccer
management, served the LFA in the same capacity before he reportedly
fell out with the then president Edwin Snowe.
It was reported earlier that Doe was looking at the LFA
presidency if only George Weah had decided to back off.
But with the former soccer star still knocking his chest as
the next LFA boss, Mr. Williams has apparently decided to get a
second spell as head of the LFA secretariat.
The next elections of the LFA are expected to take
place next year amidst cries that the condition of the game has gone
from bad to worse. Heads of clubs persistently claim that they are
not profiting from the huge money they pump into football.
During their meeting with George Weah at the Panache
Restaurant last week, the clubs didn't hide their emotions as well
as their desire to replace the Izetta Wesley-led administration.
The soccer public is now watching with an eagle eye to
see whom the aggrieved clubs would give their votes to when the
elections come in 2005.
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