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Razak Arrives In Indonesia
October 26, 2004-
Liberian midfielder
Francis Carr has arrived in the Far East of Asia to
pursue his soccer career.
The player, popularly known as Razak, left the country
more than a week ago and is expected to secure a
contract in Indonesia.
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Gbandi gets chance of lifetime
-invited to play for
Liberia in qualifier
October 24, 2004-
When
10-year-old Chris Gbandi arrived in the United States in
1989, it was a carefully calculated plan by his parents to
move him out of the war-torn country.
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Law Suit Awaits LFA Chief Scribe
(Monrovia)
October 21, 2004-
If
the words of veteran sport administrator Josiah Johnson
are anything to go by, then the secretary general of the
Liberia Football Association (LFA) Yanquoi Borsay will
likely face a law court to exonerate him against charges
of inciting people against the administrator.
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All Praises To Fallah Johnson
(Monrovia)
October 21, 2004-
The mass exodus
of Liberian players into the Far East of Asia, especially
Indonesia cannot be hailed without mentioning Fallah
Johnson.
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LFA To Collaborate With LICORNET
(Monrovia)
October 21, 2004-
The Liberia Football
Association (LFA) and the Liberia Community Radio Network
(LICORNET) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
to collaborate in National Football pledge and football
competition sponsored by USAID/Liberia Transitional
Initiative (LTI).
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John's rise to the top
(Monrovia)
October 21, 2004-
Liberia-born
striker Collins John says playing professional football is
"the best thing in the world." John, who turned 19 this
week, recently made his full international debut for the
Netherlands, the country he moved to as a political
refugee at the age of eight.
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Foreign Coach Not the Solution
(Monrovia)
October 19, 2004-
The former coach of the Liberian national soccer team,
Kadala Kromah says the solution to the Lone Star's
problem is not the hiring of the services of a foreign
coach as some may think.
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Kromah s Resignation Remains Unofficial
(Monrovia)
October 19, 2004-
It has been disclosed that the
resignation of the former coach of the national team of
Liberia Kadallah Kromah is yet to be received by
authorities of sports.
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Sports Minister Breaks Silence
(Monrovia)
October 19, 2004-
The Minister of Youth and Sports has spoken for the
first time since Liberia was beaten 3-0 at home to the
Lions of Teranga of Senegal in Monrovia. Counselor
Wheatonia Dixon-Barnes cited newsmen on Wednesday to
state her Ministry's position on the riot that followed
the match last Sunday.
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World Cup pressure
Since
the group phase of the 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign
kicked off for Africa in June their have been 12 coaching
casualties.
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George Weah's Presidency: Perspectives And Context
(Monrovia)
October 15, 2004-Liberians'
soliciting of Ambassador George Weah's candidacy in the
2005 general elections and the serious consideration he
appears to be giving the petition have sent
earth-shattering tremors in traditional political
quarters.
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14 Arrested for Sunday's Violence
(Monrovia)
October 15, 2004-The
United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has arrested 14
persons in connection with the riot that occurred last
Sunday at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports (SKD) complex in
Paynesville, outside of Monrovia.
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Family Pressure On Izetta To Resign
(Monrovia)
October 13, 2004-The ripple
effects of last Sunday violence and hooliganism at the
Liberia-Senegal joint African Nations Cup and World Cup
match is apparently having negative impact on the
President of the Liberia Football Association (LFA),
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Liberian FA Apologizes For Violence
(Monrovia)
October 13, 2004-The Liberia
Football Association (LFA) has apologized to the
sporting public, fans and the Liberian people for the
unfortunate acts by hooligans after the match between
Liberia and Senegal in the joint 2006 African Nations
Cup and World Cup qualifiers on Sunday, October 10, 2004
at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex
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Kadallah Kromah Goes Underground For Safety
(Monrovia)
October 12, 2004-The writings were on the wall, but the now former
National soccer team coach, Kadallah Kromah, apparently
failed to acknowledge to see and act upon them. So, at
the end of the day, the end justified the means
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Hooliganism: The Saga of Liberian-Senegalese Match
(Monrovia)
October 12, 2004-As it respects
the league table, Liberia stood on the fifth of a six-rung
group competition for the joint African Cup of Nations and
the World Cup games that come on in 2006.
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Deaths after violence is further blur to
national image
........bleed
poor nation, bleed
October
12, 2004-
Until
the epoch and the ill-fated war to redeem Liberia,
Liberians were people who had regard for lives and
properties. The year of the war, which began from April
12, 1980, till the emergence of the so-called patriotic
war of the 90s, has arguably, created the unfortunate
condition for Liberians that as Chinua Achebe, quoted in
his Things Fall Apart, we can no longer hold together and
the center cannot hold.
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Police call for Liberia ban
BBC Sport, Monrovia
Monrovia)
October 9, 2004-
Liberia's police chief Clarence Chris Massaquoi wants to
suspend international football matches in Liberia.
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Liberians: “Are we addicted to soccer violence too?”--need
to educate sports lovers of their roles
October 11, 2004- It is
now becoming clear that Liberians’ experience in the
horrors of war has made it now easy for us to
demonstrate acts of violence whenever certain
expectations go against our better judgment.
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Diouf out of Senegal squad
BBC Sports
(Monrovia)
October 9, 2004-
Senegal striker El
Hadji Diouf's problems have continued after he was thrown
off the Teranga Lions' squad to face Liberia for Sunday's
2006 World Cup qualifier.
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Liberians Look Up To Lone Star
(Monrovia)
October 9, 2004
The Lone Star will go face to face with the Lions of
Teranga of Senegal on Sunday, 4th October, 2004 at the
Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex. This is one of three
Group Two matches taking place over the weekend in the
African version of the journey to the 2006 World Cup
finals in Germany as well as the Nations Cup in Egypt.
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Our Men
For Senegal
(Monrovia)
October 9, 2004
The Lone Star of Liberia will engage the Lions of Senegal in round
five of the 2006 African Nations Cup and World Cup qualifiers at the
Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Paynesville, outside
Monrovia,
the capital. The following are the players selected by the Lone Star
technical manager Kdallah kromah.
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Sherman Acquires Jerseys For Lone
Star
(Monrovia)
October 9, 2004-An aspirant for
the Liberian presidency Counselor H. Varney G. Sherman has
presented a set of jerseys to the national team Lone Star.
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US$20,000 Raised For Lone Star
Monrovia)
October 9, 2004-
The committee, headed by the former Liberia Football
Association (LFA) President Edwin Snowe, was set up by the
Standing Committee on Sports at the Liberian Parliament.
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LFA Gets US$65,000 Grant From LTI
(Monrovia)
October 7, 2004
The LFA has, therefore secured an in-kind grant of
sixty-five thousand United States Dollars (USD65, 000.00)
from the Liberia Transitional Initiative (LTI) in
strengthening the already fragile peace process by the use
of football, the world's most popular sports, in Liberia.
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Zah Krangar Remembers Former Club
(Monrovia)
October 7, 2004
The player, based in
Indonesia, has donated two sets of jerseys for the
division two side who is in a comfortable position of
reaching the first division.
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More Worries Hit Swimming Team's
Departure
(Monrovia)
October 7, 2004
While the Liberian government remains reluctant in releasing
funds for the trip, the United States Embassy is yet to
issue visas to the four-man delegation.
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Lone Star Awaits 14 Pros For
Senegal
(Monrovia)
October 6, 2004
The Lone Star technical staff is
hoping that 14 of the country's foreign based players
they have called will be available for the match with
Senegal's Lions of Teranga.
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Sports Ministry Warns Violent Fans
(Monrovia)
October 6, 2004
The Ministry of Youth and Sports has warned violent fans
ahead of the match between Liberia and Senegal on
Sunday, October 10.
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NPA Anchors Qualify For Premier League
(Monrovia)
October 6, 2004
The NPA Anchors, through the coaching
skills of Frank Jerico Nagbe, crushed Bassa Defenders 3-1 at the
Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS) on Tuesday, courtesy of splendid
display by midfielder Francis Razak Carr.
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Lone Star trim chance
October 5, 2004-In
the early hours of the 2006 qualifiers, Liberia dived into Group A
leadership from a retiring win against a highly-rated Malian side,
but their failure to grab all three points against the Hawks of Togo
plants trees of distrust hosting Senegal on October 10.
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What's Wrong With Us?
(Weah's LFA Presidency Issue)
October 3, 2004-
I know for a fact that over
90% of the LFA club presidents are not elected. I served in the
hierarchy of club football in Liberia and so I speak from a vantage
position. There are numerous examples of current and former
presidents of clubs who were never elected. Why pick on George Weah?
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Senegal squad for World Cup qualifier against Liberia
DAKAR, October 2,2004 (Reuters) - Senegal coach
Guy Stephan named a 20-man squad on Wednesday for his team's World
Cup African zone Group One qualifier away to Liberia on October 10.
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Weah Movement Serious About Presidency
(Monrovia)
October 1, 2004
The brainchild behind
George Weah's quest to contest the Liberian leadership has termed
their adventure as a serious matter.
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Displaced Lofa Players Beg For Exposure
(Monrovia)
October 1, 2004
Displaced Lofa players in Bong County have
called on the President of the Promoters of Liberian Athletes (PROLA)
to expose his compatriots.
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Two Refs Dropped from FIFA Listing
(Monrovia) October 1, 2004
The Liberia Football Association has dropped two
International badge referees of the Liberia Football Referees
Association (LIFRA) from the listing of the International Football
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