LIFOPA Gives to Players & Elderly The Liberia Football Players Association (LIFOPA) on Tuesday, December 2, made a donation of several bags of rice to four community All-Star teams and a group of elderly women. The New Kru Town All-Star, St. Paul Bridge All-Star, New Georgia All-Star, Gardnersville All-Star and elderly women of the St. Paul Bridge, specifically Crab Hole community benefited from 25 bags of 50kg rice in this ongoing Ebola crisis period. Making the donation, LIFOPA founder, Wleh Bedell, said the donation was been made possible as a result of a gesture from lethal striker William Iron Man Jebor of Portuguese Primera Liga outfit Rio Ave who upon request made by LIFOPA to several Liberia players overseas is the first to see the need to make a contribution, thus the donation. Mr. Bedell upon the completion of the exercise told reporters that they are in touch with several Liberian players overseas to make contribution in helping their fellow players back home. Currently things are tough with everyone including the players here. For the fact that there are no footballing activities in the country, the players have become inactive and are jobless as most clubs have abandoned their players and there are no salaries. These players have literally become non essential and there is a need for their colleagues plying their trade oversea to assist them.”This is our campaign for now. The players first, and we want to thank robust forward William Jebor and inventive midfielder Chris Roosevelt Jones of German lower league side SVN Zweibrucken who also made a contribution to the ongoing campaign”. The various All-Star teams and elderly women of Crab Hole community thanked the players Association for the donation and prayed that the Lord bless those that gave to them.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:54:58 +0000