Lone Star U-20 on Tenterhook
Published: 03 December, 2008
The Lone Star U-20 national team which is currently engaged in the West African Football Union (WAFU) is on great suspense, despite getting their noses up front in their grouping.
Gaye Town PRS Tourney Ends Successfully
Published: 03 December, 2008
Dr. Shannon (left) shakes hands with Minister Ngafuan at Sunday's program
Closing ceremonies for the Gaye Town edition of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) sensitization campaign tournament last Sunday ended with spectacular musical and cultural performances that included some of Liberia's finest performing artists.
Montserrado Coach Off to Morocco
Published: 21 November, 2008
Mr. Cooper
The senior county coach of Montserrado, Alieu Barh, has left the country for a two-week seminar in the North African Republic of Morocco, one of Africa's football superpowers, disclosed Mr. MacDonald Cooper, Montserrado Youth Coordinator.
Street Soccer Pitch Dedication on Course
Published: 21 November, 2008
Finishing touches regarding the official dedication ceremony of Liberia's 1st Street Soccer Pitch, dubbed as the Mel Young Street Soccer Pitch, in honor of the International President of the Homeless World Cup, is said to be on course, as scores of soccer enthusiasts are expected to grace the opening ceremony this weekend.
Heeding to the calls of citizens of Lofa County, two staunch members of the Lofa County Sports Committee have rescinded their decision to resign and returned to their previous positions.
Newly appointed Grand Bassa County sports committee chairman Emmanuel Pello has disclosed that he has scheduled two friendly derbies against defending champions, Bong and U-17 Lone Star.
Bassa Supt. Appoints New Chairman
Published: 12 November, 2008
Supt. Julia Duncan Cassell and Emmanuel Pello
Barely three weeks to the start of the nation's popular and most coveted sport festivities the National Sports Meet, Grand Bassa County Superintendent Julia Duncan Cassell has appointed Mr. Emmanuel Pello as chairman of the county's sports committee.
2008 flashback: The Bong team that won last term shake hands with Nimba players in Sanniquelle
Bong Preparation on Course
Published: 10 November, 2008
Acting Supt. Herbert
Bong County, defending champion of Liberia most illustrious and coveted sporting festivities, preparation is on course, disclosed Mrs. Lucia Herbert acting Bong Superintendent.
Manager Raheem Kiazolu posed with his team (Dorley F.C.)
Referees Blamed for Dorley F.C. Title Blow
Published: 27 October, 2008
Referees in charge of Saturday's crunch derby between Dorley F.C. and Gardnersville Young Controllers made no mistake in helping GYC hold glamorous Dorley F.C. to a 2-0 defeat in a rip-roaring encounter.
Uphill Task for Liberia
Published: 27 October, 2008
Rick Keller
Information reaching this paper from Ghana indicates that host Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Togo have taken early lead in the ongoing Accra Commercial Bank Open.
LFA boss Cllr S. Izetta Wesley and Mighty Barrolle are one of the top sides in the Liberian Premiership
Liberian football officials have broken the long-running deadlock with the country's top club sides, after talks held at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.
REFLECTION: Cabinet Director Medina Wesseh and other officials at GSA tournament closing ceremony
Reports received yesterday from the Task Force on the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) sensitization campaign, said massive preparations are being concluded for Sunday, October 26, 2008 commencement of the three-week sports tournament in Gaye Town, Sinkor Old Road.
LFA Coerced Dorley F.C. to Pay for Ball
Published: 23 October, 2008
F. Momolu Dorley President of Dorley F.C also Press Union of Liberia Best Sports Journalist 2008-2009
Despite representatives of the Liberia Football Association (LFA), the Ministry of Youth and Sport, its domestic clubs and FIFA world football's governing body early this week agreeing to move football in Liberia forward, the LFA has coerced 3rd division outfit, Dorley F.C., to pay for a ball kicked in a water that contained a government of Liberia decrepit terminal and filled with coal-seam.
A cross-section of Nimba officials among spectators
Nimba Suffers Two Test-Match Defeats
Published: 22 October, 2008
The Nimba Sports Steering Committee (NSSC) campaign to take the county team through series of pre-County Sports Meet test matches continued over the weekend in Gompa City (Ganta) with two spectacular derbies.
Members of the Liberian football family met with FIFA officials in Zurich, Switzerland Monday to discuss how best to tackle some of the problems currently besetting football in the West African nation.
Gaye Town Gears Up For PRS Sensitization Tournament
Published: 22 October, 2008
Community-based sports, musical and cultural jamborees aimed at sensitizing the public on the campaign for Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS), has been gaining momentum within Monrovia and its environs. And the latest to join the self-initiated program is Gaye Town, Sinkor Old Road community.
African Stars To Be Honored
Published: 17 October, 2008
Liberia's George Weah is one of the nominees
African players who have made outstanding individual contributions to their communities will be honored at a special ceremony in London last night (Thursday).
The Liberia National Olympic Committee (LNOC) in continuation of the Olympic Education program will today conduct a one-day workshop at the Liberia National Table Tennis Association (LNTTA) Hall on Broad Street.
Zone 3 V'ball Tourney Postponed To Oct. 19
Published: 17 October, 2008
The Volleyball Federation of Ivory Coast has announced the postponement of the 14th edition of the Solidarity and Integration Cup for Zone 111 countries to October 19, 2008. The Ivorian volleyball body informed its Liberian counterpart, and other participating countries that the postponement was due to several crucial national activities in that host country.
The newly elected vice president of Administration (VPA), Mr. Prince L. Kovah, said the ELWA Oldtimers Association would launch an ambitious initiative aimed at preserving and solidifying 1st division outfit Mighty Electrons.
In Protest of Kortie's Reinstatement:
Published: 15 October, 2008
Six out of the eight female clubs operating in the country last weekend failed to honor their respective Liberia Football Association's (LFA) knockout league's fixtures in protest that their suspended chairman David Kortie be reinstated immediately.
President Sirleaf poses with player Weeks, Minister Richards and Kamara
‘Be A good Ambassador Abroad’
Published: 15 October, 2008
Liberia's first female chief patron of sports, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has urged Turkey-based Liberian young footballer Theo Weeks to be a good ambassador of Liberian football community in Europe.
LNTTA to Partake in Regional Tourney
Published: 14 October, 2008
Mr. Cheaitou donates assorted tennis materials to LTTF Puieyoe
The Secretary General of Liberia National Table Tennis Association (LNTTA), Dexter Puieyoe, has disclosed that his federation will partake in the pending regional tennis tourney in neighboring Ivory Coast.
Nimba Loses One, Draw One in Test Matches
Published: 14 October, 2008
NSSC Chair Wuo gives Nimba Drogba, the 'boys' advice at official rehearsal talks
Residents of Nimba County under the banner of Nimba Sports Steering Committee (NSSC) were over the weekend entertained to spectacular show-case of football activities when the county team training in the Town of Saclepea played a series of test matches.
PRS Sensitization Tournament Goes To Gaye Town
Published: 14 October, 2008
Cultural performance at the launch of the PRS
Following a successful hosting of its inaugural Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) sports sensitization campaign on GSA Road, a Sinkor Gaye Town-based youth organization has written the PRS Sensitization Campaign Task Force for similar opportunity in the community.
Sports Physicians in China's Anti-Doping Seminar
Published: 13 October, 2008
Morris S. Dukuly
The sports physicians of the Liberian National Olympic Committee (LNOC) and the Liberia Athletics Federation (LAF), Mr. Morris S. Dukuly along with the senior Lone Star team physician, Mr. Jefferson Zoegbeh, are expected to leave Liberia today and participate in China's Anti-Doping seminar for African Countries.
Players and members of clans along with CDC stalwarts pose for photo
CDC Holds Soccer Tourney in Todee
Published: 10 October, 2008
Liberia's largest opposition party, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), as part of her community outreach initiatives, last weekend held a one-day soccer tournament in Todee District, Montserrado County.
Partial view of the Lone Star that failed to impress
Lone Star in Academic Encounter Sat.
Published: 10 October, 2008
Out of form Lone Star will tomorrow, Saturday October 11, 2008 engage Algeria at the refurbished Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in an academic encounter.
Give June 1st Victims Befitting Tribute
Published: 09 October, 2008
The author: F. Momolu Dorley
In wake of Lone Star victory drought which has sent her tumbling out of the fray for both World and Nations Cup, the Daily Observer's F. Momolu Dorley believes that the Lone Star has to show immense resolve by producing a much more accomplished result so that it serves as a befitting tribute to those of our countrymen who lost their lives on June 1ST 2008 while attending soccer match between their pride and joy the Lone Star and the Gambia national team.
Nimba Prepares for ‘County Meet’
Published: 06 October, 2008
Mr. Karnwea: 'Our vision is to take the Cup back home this time around’
Residents of Nimba County under the banner of Nimba Sports Steering Committee (NSSC) have begun preparations ahead of this year's sport meet dubbed, 'County Meet' among the 15 sub-political divisions of the country, slated for early December.
LAP 'Undermines' UP at LFA
Published: 06 October, 2008
President Sirleaf and LAP boss Varney Sherman
MONROVIA, The Liberia Action Party (LAP) standard bearer Varney Sherman was the principal foe to Unity Party's (UP) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during the first round of the 2005 general and presidential elections.
Kortie: “The War Has Just Begun”
Published: 03 October, 2008
Former friends, now arch enemies, Wesley and suspended Kortie
Suspended Liberia Football Association (LFA) Executive Committee member, David Kortie said the decision to suspend him from the Executive Committee is the 'last straw' that would break Izetta Wesley's presidency.
Africare Advocates Blood Donation through Sports
Published: 02 October, 2008
Africare Liberia, in collaboration with Nimba County Health Team (NCHT), Ganta United Methodist Hospital (GUMH) and a local radio station, Radio Kerhegheamahn, has ended a two-day mini soccer and kickball tournament in Ganta, Nimba County.
Volleyball Team Gears Up for Zone III Tourney
Published: 01 October, 2008
The national volleyball team of Liberia is gearing up for participation in the 14th edition of the solidarity and integration cup of the Zone III tourney.
LFA Admits Signing US$55,000 Media Pact
Published: 01 October, 2008
LFA Secretary General George Williams ‘the only third parties could be FIFA and CAF’
The beleaguered Liberia Football Association (LFA) authorities have confirmed to the Daily Observer that they signed a bumper media pact of about US$55,000 with French advertising firm, ISAP International Football Advertising and Promotion.
Kortie Wants LFA Leadership to Resign
Published: 30 September, 2008
Embattled LFA executives Wesley and Pennoh Bestman
A strong crony of the embattled Liberia Football Association (LFA) president Izetta Wesley has called for the immediate resignation of the entire LFA leadership.
U-17 Selection Committee Heads for Bassa
Published: 26 September, 2008
Mr. Sekou Konneh
An executive of the ongoing selection process of starlets, who are to represent the country in the pending West African Football Union (WAFU) tournament, Mr. Sekou Konneh has disclosed that the selection committee will this weekend leave for the port city of Buchanan, Grand Bassa County to select the last batch of players.
FODEDE Disappointed with Journalists
Published: 25 September, 2008
FODEDE president Wallace Weiah
The press bureau of the Football to Develop Destitute (FODEDE) has expressed dissatisfaction over the manner in which some Liberian journalists have written to the organizers of this year's Homeless World Cup for accreditation.
595 Students Complete MYS 2008 Vacation Job Program
Published: 24 September, 2008
The Ministry of Youth & Sports (MYS) last weekend paid out an amount of US$59,500 to 595 students, who served the Ministry during this year's national vacation job program, with each student receiving a check of US$100.
Update on Central Monrovia 3rd Division League
Published: 23 September, 2008
Third division outfit Vai Town F.C gave their fans a sigh of relief on Gran-slam Sunday, September 21, 2008 as they turned an early 1-0 deficit into a hard fought 2-1 victory.
Grand-Slam Sunday in 3rd Division League
Published: 19 September, 2008
Hyper-talented prodigy Daniel Toe Jr.
Scores of teams in the Lower Division will be in action on Sunday September 21, 2008, in a bid to book a place in the Liberia Football Association's 3rd division knock-out stage.
FSLB In Assistance Pact For LBF
Published: 17 September, 2008
LBF President Gbour Wilson
A United States based group calling themselves the Friends and Supporters of Liberia Basketball, Inc. (FSLB) has entered a deal with the National Basketball Association (NBA) of America.
A month-long football, musical and cultural festivities to jump-start the sensitization campaign of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS), folds up this Saturday, September 20, 2008 with an elaborate ceremony at the Nana Sports Ground on GSA Road, Paynesville.
Break-through for Cycling Cadet
Published: 16 September, 2008
Cycling cadet Prince Nagbe exerted himself in the ranks of cyclists in the country by taking an ambitious lead hence setting up a formidable 6 kilometer lead that handed him the last but not the least slot in the cycling race.
Flash back: ECOWAS tournament held in Liberia last year 2007
Over 40 Cyclists Set for Cycling Race
Published: 12 September, 2008
The President of the Liberia National Cycling Association (LINCA) Mr. Jerry Freeman has disclosed that over 40 cyclists will compete in this weekend's cycling race.
Liberian Striker Makes Headway in Australia
Published: 11 September, 2008
Alex Jackson
A young Liberian striker Alex Jackson who plies his trade for Australia premier league side Adelaide Cobras has lured seven goals from seven matches in the 10 teams' league.
