Cocktail
Reception Hosted for Players of the Lone Star
The Chief Patron of Sports, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has
recommended to authorities of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and
the Liberia Football Association to begin early camping of local and
foreign based players of the National Football Team, the Lone Star,
for future engagements in the qualifying rounds of the World Cup and
the African Cup of Nations Tournament.
The President observed that if foreign based and local players of
the Lone Star are given much time to return home and camp together,
there could be better results in Liberia’s remaining matches in the
World Cup and African Cup of Nations preliminary rounds.
The President, according to an Executive Mansion release, made the
remarks on Tuesday during a cocktail reception hosted by government
in honor of players of the National Team for their spirited
performance on Sunday against the Lions of Cameroon.
The Liberian leader pledged 5-thousand United States dollars through
the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Liberia Football
Association to facilitate the camping of the National team for its
pending encounter on June 17, against Equatorial Guinea in Monrovia.
In separate remarks, Acting Youth & Sports Minister, Marbue
Richards, LFA President Izetta Wesley and the Captain of the Lone
Star Squad Frank Seator, commended
Sirleaf with Sports officials AT ATS
President Sirleaf for her appreciation of their efforts, and the
reception accorded them.
They promised to consider seriously the President’s recommendation
for future engagements involving the Liberian National Football
Team. Also present at the reception were three technical staffers of
the Cameroonian National team who commended President Sirleaf for
her level of support given to the improvement of sports in the
country.
Source: Executive Mansion
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