The signing of Coach Joseph Carter for L$50,000 to join the Kpatolee United Sports Association (KUSA) as head coach of the club has been recorded as the most lucrative deal ever for a coach or team manager under the Liberia Football Association-Bong County Sub-Association.
Kpatolee United Sports Association (KUSA) have completed the signing of Carter, and at the same time, unveiled him as head coach from local and bitter rivals, Totota United Sports Association (TUSA). He penned a one-year contract with the lower Bong club, with an option to extend based on performance.
The gaffer joins KUSA from TUSA, where he played 2018 before serving as coach two years later.
Carter, in his first season, finished second, behind eventual champions and now dissolved Bong Rangers FC, and then guided the Totota boys to hoisting the 3rd Division Championship during the 2021-2022 campaign.
Last season, Carter took TUSA from the bottom of a seven-team league table to finish as runners-up, with a point difference between them and holders, Future Bright Stars.
He was recently voted as the Best Coach of the LFA Bong Sub-Association before opting to switch to archrivals KUSA as the highest transfer coach in the history of the league.
The new manager has been tasked to lead the new project at KUSA in qualifying the club to second division and subsequently to the first league.
Carter, a former coach of Bong, was part of the Kpatawee squad that brought the 2008 and only National County Sports Meet Trophy to the county.
KUSA still maintains the former coach Monue P. Dolo as a backroom staff to the new boss.
At the signing and unveiling ceremony held at the Point Entertainment Center on Saturday, were Foday Sama (President); Deputy Presidential Press Secretary, Smith Toby (Chairman), Joseph Ishmael Massaquoi (VPO), and Prince D Jackson (Branding & Marketing Manager), as officials of KUSA were all in attendance.
