The Co-founder of a Christian organization is calling on the athletes on his organization’s football team, known as Nation’s Light FC, to understand that they are under a Christian organization and should always follow the rules governing the organization.
Morris Kpiah Saysay pointed out that his team is a nonprofit, nonpolitical, and non-governmental organization established in the Brewerville Community in Montserrado County, and they are also carrying on vocational training for their young athletes with financial support in the academy arena.
Saysay told journalists that his organization currently has three football teams at its academy, and a senior team, and is now developing 100 acres of land for his organization in Bomi County.
Saysay said, “I am the Co-founder of Nation’s Light which is a faith-based organization, and we are involved with youth development and we work with youth from the age of five up to 25 years, and sports is one part of what we are doing and so we want our athletes to continue to follow the rules governing the organization because we are there to develop young talents.”
He continued that he decided to establish a football team under his organization with the aim of helping to change the minds of youth that are involved in negative behaviors, and such negative behavior has caused serious setbacks for the development of their skills in the classroom, in the sporting arena, and other important aspects of life.
“What we have noticed is that many young people are in the street because of peer pressure and they are doing things that aren’t right, and so if you think of any negative thing in our country, you will find the young people at the fore-front; so, we think that Nation’s Light as an organization, once we engage the youth through sports, something the youth love, it gives us the opportunity to carry on our psycho-social behavioral counseling so that they could become better persons tomorrow,” he stressed.
Saysay described the responses his academy is getting from the athletes under the academy as encouraging because they have continued to show their seriousness for their own advancement in both the classroom education and football skill development, and is receiving better report from the athletes’ respective schools in the areas of their classroom performances and good behavior.
Saysay classed the performances of his athletes in their first game played against Baby Eagles as positive, even though it ended 1-1, and stressed that it was their athletes’ first time to play in the fourth division, but hoped that they will finish the league among the first two teams.
