{"id":5070,"date":"2023-10-08T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2023-10-08T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T13:28:13","slug":"on-liberias-community-football-pitches-weah-still-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/on-liberias-community-football-pitches-weah-still-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"On Liberia&#8217;s community football pitches, Weah still a star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Osman Fofana, a 17-year-old student in Liberia&#8217;s capital Monrovia, could not contain his excitement as he walked onto a new football field in his slum community of Clara Town.<\/p><div class=\"afric-content\" id=\"afric-3850337852\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/hello?utm_source=ecm-digital&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=lac-dex-2026&#038;utm_content=french\" aria-label=\"French&#8212;300&#215;250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/French-300x250-1.gif?fit=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s astonishing&#8221;, he said at a recent school gathering at a sports complex supported by President George Weah&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We, the youth, pray that George Weah will be re-elected&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weah, a former international football star who was born in Clara Town, is seeking a second term as president of the West African nation in Tuesday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elected to a first term in 2018, he has supported the construction of recreational parks in several disadvantaged parts of the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has promised to build more throughout the country if re-elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sports complex in Clara Town is home to a synthetic turf football field, a basketball court and a children&#8217;s play area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It stands in stark contrast to the surrounding landscape of makeshift shacks overlooking mud alleys flooded by recent heavy rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Before, we only played on tarmac or dirt&#8221;, said Wonder Stewar, 16, who was warming up for a match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want to become a great footballer, like him &#8212; he&#8217;s a model for all Liberians&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sound system blared Afrobeats music as a group of children played basketball with an instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few spectators crowded around the pitch as the football match kicked off. Nearby, a cacophonous parade for a local parliamentary candidate passed along a newly constructed road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These recreation centers boost the young students&#8217; morale &#8212; they&#8217;re really happy to come here,&#8221; says Jordan David, one of the teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Developing football &#8211;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mustapha Raji, president of the Liberia Football Association, said all import duties had been waived for the association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the biggest supports we&#8217;ve got from the government, and it paved the way towards the construction of three artificial pitches&#8221;, he said. World football&#8217;s governing body FIFA also contributed to the construction of the pitches, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Separate from those infrastructure projects, we&#8217;ve also had all the equipment coming into the country to support grassroot football development: match balls, referee equipment, uniforms for teams &#8212; and the government has been very supportive in that area,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberia&#8217;s national team is 150th in FIFA&#8217;s rankings and has not qualified for an Africa Cup of Nations tournament since 2002, when Weah was still playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have new pitches but we now need to develop coaching to get better results&#8221;, said Kaetu Smith, a former national team coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The new pitches change a lot of things for training &#8212; many players are getting into women&#8217;s football &#8212; but we need more resources&#8221;, said Famatta Dean, the U20 women&#8217;s national team 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