US$450,000 Burden?
To Partake in Afcon, World Cup Qualifiers

President of the Liberia Football Association (LFA), Musa Bility

Written by By Leroy M. Sonpon, III
leroysonpon@yahoo.com
(231-886-585875)

Lonestar warming minutes before Liberia-Namibia match which Lonestar won 1:0
Reports gathered have it that Liberia Football Association (LFA) needs about US$450,000 to effusively honor all her three qualifier matches in June-2012.

According to the fixture, the red-white-&-blue boys are expected to engage the Taranga Lions of Senegal in Dakar, the second week in June, and host the Angola national football team, the following week in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. The Lone Star, in the 2nd leg battle of the 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifiers, tackles the Brave Warriors of Namibia the same week. In the first leg, the Warriors bowed to the Lone Star in Monrovia, 0-1.


When our reporter contacted the President of the Liberia Football Association (LFA), Musa Bility, he neither denied nor confirmed the fundraising campaign, but told our reporter that the LFA spends “about US$150,000 per game.”

The LFA boss also told our reporter that the sponsor of the National Football Team, Cellcom GSM Company will help in supporting the team, but needs the financial and moral contribution of every Liberian and business in Liberia.

“In order to raise the money to support the Lone Star to honor her two matches away and host a country, we are going to engage businesses to help, because we need money…and we spend about US$150,000 a game.

“And we pray that as we engage these businesses they should come to our aid,” Mr. Bility said.

Meanwhile, some female Liberian fans are calling on the Technical Director of the LFA, Henry Brown and the LFA boss Musa Bility to entrust the Lone Star of Liberia with former Lone Star players who have made exploits, than former under-achieved Lone Star players who had substandard coaching degree.