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| Geraldine Doe-Sheriff |
The advance team of the Liberia Football
Association (LFA) will arrive early next week, between October 1 and 2, we can
authoritatively confirm.
The team, we gathered is made up of a three-man
delegation that will be led by Liberian senator and deputy chairperson of the
Lone Star Mobilization Committee, Geraldine Doe-Sheriff.
The former Liberian female football wonder
popularly known as “Lady Zico” in her days was designated by the Lone Star
Mobilization Committee as the one to undertake the task of leading the team local
sources from the West African country revealed this weekend.
The LFA has however refused to give the names of
the other two members of the team that should arrive in Nigeria latest on October
3 for what it termed “safety reasons.”
The job of the advance team, our correspondent
gathered, includes checking and booking a suitable and conducive hotel for the
Lone Star and providing necessary advice for the team’s acclimatization, as
well as the food and water amongst others.
Local media in the West African country reported that Doe-Sheriff and her colleagues have raised around US$270,000 (about
N40.5m) for Lone Star’s camping and the advance team’s mission.
Meanwhile, Lone Stars are expected to touch down in
Accra, Ghana today with a 24-man delegation that comprises 12 local and four
foreign-based (Indonesia) players and eight technical and support staff.
Henry Flomo, LFA spokesperson claimed the choice of
camping in Ghana is to help the team better prepare for the Super Eagles in
Calabar.
“Despite local critics about the training camp
outside Liberia, it will also help the team with full concentration on the
match that Liberia needs to win to overturn the first leg 2-2 tie in Monrovia
on September 8,”he said.
The delegation will be joined by other foreign
players during the 11-day camping before returning to Liberia and then making it to Calabar along with
scores of supporters on a 100-seater chartered plane.
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