Author: Christopher C. Walker

Monrovia – Liberia’s champions, Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) Football club, has launched an operation to reach the next round of the   Confederation of African Football champions league. Oilers will this Sunday, August 11, play host to two times Senegalese champions, Generation Foot, at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS). The “Oil Boy” in June of 2019 broke their 14-year wait to win their first championship title and when undefeated throughout the season. Copper Sannah’s Oilers head coach feels his team is in the right mindset for the clash against the Senegalese outfit. Speaking to FrontPageAfrica sports desk, the former BYC…

LISCR defender Dirkir Glay sustained injury in the Lone Star vs Senegal game in Monrovia Monrovia – The Shipping Boys of LISCR FC will play their first leg of the CAF Confederation Cup preliminary round against Maranatha FC of Togo without the services of central defender Dirkir Glay, striker Christopher Jackson and  winger Edward Ledlum the club announced on it official website. The trio were ruled out of the team to play the first leg in Togo after picking up injuries on international duties with the local based Liberian team against Senegal in the CHAN qualifiers.  Glay suffered a hamstring…

Monrovia – President George Weah has sent out a warning to all officials of government to refrain from serving as spokespersons for the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC).

Monrovia – A group of 17 young Liberian players, who won a FIFA court ruling in April 2018 after a club from the South -Eastern Asian nation of Laos, IDSEA Champasak United for forcibly signing them to play in the Laos premier league are calling on the Chief Patron of Sports, President George Weah, to intervene on their behalf to get their benefits. The players were invited for an academy program in 2015, which turned out to be a fiasco. After a three-year investigation with the aid of world players union, FIFpro, which provided a legal team as FIFA took…

Female Lone Star players training ahead of their two-legged international friendly against their colleagues in The Gambia Monrovia – The Under-20 female national football team of Liberia will engage their counterparts from Gambia in two international friendlies, disclosed the Football House. Since Mustapha Raji took over the LFA, the male Lone Star has been involved in four friendlies in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea. It will be the first time the female team will showcase their talents under Raji’s administration which is key in developing women football, too. According to a release published on the official Facebook page of…

Monrovia – Liberia’s national team’s departure from the Roberts International Airport to Dakar, Senegal was delayed for 12 hours due to what authorities of Ivorian company Air Côte D’Ivoire term as a “technical fault.” The local based national team was due to depart the country for Senegal to honor their second-leg African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier following their 1-0 win, on Sunday, July 28. According to LFA Communications Director, Danesius Marteh, the team made of local-based players, was due to travel by Air Côte D’Ivoire. Marteh stated that “the team was due to depart Monrovia by 8:50 Wednesday morning but…

Monrovia – The new Chairman of the National Commission on Small Arms, Tekloh Maxwell Grigsby, has called for more awareness and education on the proliferation and illicit sale of small and light arms in Liberia.

Monroiva – Liberia finally got her first ever victory over Senegal in an African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS) on Sunday, July 28. LISCR FC’s goal machine, Christopher Jackson, got the match’s only goal with a diving header in the 89th minute after he was left unmarked. It was also Jackson’s second successive international goal, having found the curtain raiser against Equatorial Guinea in an international friendly, which ended 1-1 in Malabo on 21 July. President Weah, LFA President Raji and Youth and Sports Minister Wilson in the VIP Stands Jackson has now scored four…

Liberia’s Lone Star just returned from Equatorial Guinea with a 1-1 draw after an international friendly match between both countries’ national football teams Monrovia – Liberia will take on Senegal in a 2020 African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS) on Sunday, July 28 at 4 P.M. Lone Star head coach Thomas Kojo and his technical staff selected 25 players, who began training at the ATS on 1 July following medical and physical examinations. Liberia’s national team is fresh from being held to a 1-1 draw by Equatorial Guinea in an international friendly in Malabo on…

MONROVIA – The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) has banned former Liberian Football Association president Musa Bility for 10 years and fined $500,000 for breaching its code of ethics. The ban comes a day after Mr. Bility filed a case to the Court of Arbitration of Sport to make the recent agreement between CAF and FIFA to appoint FIFA Secretary General as General Delegate of Africa. The world governing body of football in a communication to Bility who is also an executive committee member of CAF said the vocal ex-Liberian FA president has been found “guilty of having misappropriated…