By S. Siapha Mulbah
The biggest grassroots football program currently ongoing in the country, the Momo Community League, is set to run several matches in round two of the competition for under 17 players across its different game venues tomorrow, Saturday, May 18, 2024.
The weekend is expected to come with another super Saturday in grassroots football where the playing pitches in Battery Factory, D. Twe, Right to Play, and Jacob Town will come alive, with young talents challenging their peers and displaying their talents as part of the football house’s project.
Residents of Jacobs Town and its environs will gather at the community’s recognized sports pitch at 2pm to witness their kids in Zone A rubbing shoulders in top fixtures. Game one at the Jacob Town field will put Dixville U-17 team against Chicken Soup Factory lads. To end the day at this venue, Jacob Town U-17 will lock horns with Barnersville U-17 in the evening showpiece.
In the same format, Zone B will come alive at the Battery Factory football field as two neighbors, PHP Community U-17 and Clay Street U-17, will face off in the opening match of the day. Freeport and West Point U-17 teams will end happenings at this venue.
Brewerville versus Logan town is the afternoon’s match in the borough of New Kru at the D. Twe field for Zone C. St. Paul will take on the Kru town boys to end the round in the township.
A Robert field highway affair will make the Right-to-Play field adjacent Samuel Kenyon Doe Sports Complex an attractive match venue with Zone D. Another neighboring fight will take place between R-2 Community and Gbengbar Town in game one. Youth teams from King Gray and VOA Communities will get to climax round two in the last match.
The Momo Community League is the Under-17 youth development program implemented in the country by the Liberia Football Association, with full sponsorship from Lone Star Cell Mobile phone company under Momo Money, a digital financial transaction platform.
The competition started last weekend in Montserrado County, where the 16 participating community teams played their opening matches, with seven teams winning and a draw for two. The seven teams that lost put themselves in a position of fighting for a much-needed win in tomorrow’s fixtures.
The teams from Chicken Soup factory and Barnesville are atop of group A with three points each. West Point and Clay Street are also sitting atop of group B with three points each. In group C, St. Paul and New Kru Town are ahead, while R-2 Community is three points over group D. King Gray and Gbengbar Town have one point each in this group.
