By S. Siapha Mulbah
Teams under the grassroot component of the Liberian football league particularly in the third and fourth divisions’ league are calling on the Liberia Football Association to make allotments for the development of grassroot football in the national budget.
According to them, this is to save the future of the national league and teams.
The clubs from across the country appealed to the FA to have a consideration on having them covered in the subvention packaging process to clubs which is currently focusing on team in the national’s first and second division leagues along with the upper women’s league.
Pascal Davis, a representative of a group of concerned third division clubs across the country recently attend the Liberia Football Association Extraordinary congress making a case for the grassroot sector with an appeal to have 50 percent of the subvention money to national league clubs allotted to teams in the third division and other lower leagues.
According to Davis, the grassroot is the fundamental of Liberian football and depriving them of benefiting from subvention and other packages under the authority of the football association will hamper the prospect at which the game is been grown from the grassroot.
He explained that the administration has contributed in time past with some fee’s cancelation and some other assistant which greatly empowered the clubs in the grassroot program to gain some level of empower and having a reduction of 50% of the US$ 6,000 from each top league club for the sake of third and fourth divisions clubs will pave the way better for the football future.
Constituting the highest percentage of clubs registered in under the Liberia Football Association, the grassroot football teams representative intimated that teams in topflight goes to the third divisions to get players to accomplish their mission in the different leagues as a means of making football better in Liberia and giving them portion of the financial allotment will increase the building process.
In response, the president of the Football Association said the concerns of the third division are very grave and huge noting that they will not be ignored or swept under the carpet without review.
Raji said the grassroot component of the Liberian league is important which makes it interesting to have the demand proffered by the representation considered to work with together in order to provide some solutions to the constraints along the way.
