By S. Siapha Mulbah
Discoveries Football Club Coach Akin Z. Baryogar alias Coach Alvero has assumed leadership as head coach of District 12 football team ahead of the upcoming Montserrado County electoral district league with optimism of achieving a milestone for the district under his watch.
Coach Alvero, since 2017, had been a youth coach in Liberia striving for the best development of young talents especially at the Discoveries Academy.
In the last two years, the tactician performance has been noticed after his team good to the last national third division playoff and emerged as champions before going to second division league where they only spend a season to get a space to participate in the nation’s topflight national first division league during the just ended league season.
After achieving such feat with his club, the sports steering committee of district 12 has seen it necessary to have him taking his expertise to the district team in pursuit of the league trophy with a charge and mandate that the DSA coach ends the off-season competition in styles of celebration.
Following his appointment Alvero explained to this paper that he is optimistic of delivering the district league trophy to his beloved district that have seen his contribution in the coaching arena to lead their team to the process.
He explained that it is always an opportunity for him to become noticed among several personalities to perform a specific task and he will maintain as well as introduce some technical reforms to the process of making district 12 a football team to make history in this year’s district league.
According to him his unique approach to the coaching discipline will steer the affairs of his players and give them the desired motivation to perform to the expectation of those that give him the task to lead the charge.
He then noted that every process along the way for the team to get the ball rolling will stand on credible and transparent coordination among his team of technicians and the steering committee so that there will be a trust for the team to make independent representation.
Over two weeks now since the appointment of coach Alvero as head coach of district 12 team, there has been now startup funding presented to him to begin preparation for the upcoming competition which will start in early July, sources revealed.
In confirmation to this matter, the district coach told this paper that mostly doing electioneering periods, officials of district teams and other politicians get around with the teams rallying support in claiming political attention but when there is not electoral activity it becomes difficult to raise support for the team to prepare and participate in the district league.
Thanking the coordinators and steering committee chairperson for his appointment, Alvero called on prominent stakeholders and football enthusiasts of district 12 to stand up for their team in this year’s tournament with the needed support that will grant them the power to achieve their dreams of getting the championship.
Immediately after his appointment, the youth coach who see action as a key to football development begun several open justification exercises in different parts of the district to scout potential talents will can be recruited to represent his team at the competition.
He sent out the open invitation to all interested footballers in the district to get engaged with the training and justification activity while it is an open session to get better opportunity rather than waiting for a later time that some of the players will already be selected.
“We are carrying a responsibility of making the best representation of our district and already promised that. We want our justification and recruitment to be a topnotch one so we want all footballers to be a part of it from the early stages at the different venues,” he explained.
