Sr.
Pros Meet Barrolle Friday
-Weah, Nagbe On Board
Joe Nagbe Former Captain
By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.
Mr. Steve B. Davis, the Team Manager of the Senior Pros football
club, has confirmed that his side would take on Premier League
Champions Mighty.
According to the FIFA Player Agent, the match is scheduled for the
22nd of June, 2007 at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS).
He broke the news that for the first time since the formation of the
team, veteran players George Oppong Weah and Joe Armstrong Nagbe
would be included in the lineup of head coach Vava George on Friday
and beyond.
The Senior Pros squad was established recently and comprises mostly
former players of the national football team of Liberia, Lone Star.
They include James Salinsa Debbah, Oliver Makor, Dionysius Sebwe,
Kelvin Sebwe, Jonathan Boye Charles Sogbie, Musa Shannoh, Pewu
Bestman, Janjay Jacobs and Friday Jean Roberts.
The former Lone Star players scheduled their first match against the
Premier League side Watanga FC on Thursday, June 14, 2007 at the ATS
and collected a 4-1 win.
On Saturday, June 16, the Senior Pros traveled to the Borough of New
Kru Town but fell 1-0 there to the All-Star team.
Thereafter, the Senior Pros met another Premier League side
Invincible Eleven (IE) with the match ending 1-1 after Musa Shannoh
headed a second half equalizer following a cross from Debbah.
Mr. Davis revealed that proceeds from the match would go towards
charity, yet to be identified.
Apart from players at the disposal of the Senior Pros, Qatar-based
Prince Daye and George Gebro are expected to join the team upon
their arrival in Monrovia.
Players of the Senior Pros, when playing for the national team, were
instrumental in qualifying Liberia for the 1996 African Cup of
Nations held in South Africa and later the 2002 African Nations Cup
hosted in Mali.
Then commonly called ‘Weah Eleven’ the players came close to taking
the country to the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan only to end one
point adrift to the eventual finalist, Super Eagles of Nigeria.
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