LFA to Appraise Technical Staff after National Teams' Dismal Outing


Henry Boyd Flomo
Director of Communications/Spokesman
Liberia Footbal Association (LFA)
www.liberiafa.org
Monrovia, Liberia
Mobile #: +2316558685/4986185
Email:henry_flomo@yahoo.com,henry4media@yahoo.com


It is now a known fact that two categories of our national teams were in action in Ghana and Cape Verde last weekend and that their performances were quite bizarre and peculiar.

These dismal outings, the Football House says, are absolutely not parallel to its unwavering financial and material support to the national teams and technical staffers alike enjoy.

Much as the LFA is prepared mentally and psychologically to endure pain and agony along the way over the period of building a formidable and cohesive national teams, the recent losses are eye opener, begging for a total overhaul of our technical staff.

The LFA says an appraisal backroom staff members, has become compelling and necessary to address a sticky point of ‘why we keep losing the way we losing’.

This does not contradict conventional approach to the building of a fearless and intelligently cogent national squad. In fact, conventional wisdom backs the act of technical staff or coaches being held liable for horrendous and unspeakable output of their athletes.

The LFA says since the coming in of the Musa Bility administration, invaluable time and huge cash have been invested into the game at both national and club levels. Thus, such dismal showing in the case of the two away games, in Cape Verde and Ghana, is unacceptable and intolerable.

The Football House is meanwhile assuring the Liberian people and football fans in particular to keep hope alive in the LFA’s strive to improve the game at all levels in the country. The LFA says it inherited a broken football sector and building or mending the broken pieces to acceptable level is not overnight business, but time, tolerance and resources.

In a dispatch signed by Communications head Henry Flomo, the LFA says it will not allow this testing period of its sojourn to distract it from the larger picture of the mission of safeguarding the future of young players, coaches and referees.

In another matter, the LFA has extended apology to the family of player Patrick Jackson of Watanga FC. Patrick is presently being treated at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, Ghana after suffering a double ankle fracture in the match Liberia versus Ivory Coast in Ghana.

At the same time, the LFA is reminding football lovers and officials that the book of condolence recently open for Patrick Doeplah is still open at the LFA in Monrovia.