Liberia’s Soccer Lords Search for Peace in Zurich
By: Albert K. Jaja
Liberia’s more than decade-long bloodletting is slowly becoming a thing of the past with peace and stability firmly taking roots. But the queue of peace talks and broken cease fire pacts from Geneva to Abuja, and finally back to Accra in 2003 featured prominently on the radar of peace hungry Liberians. But the diameter of conflict and battle for power and privileges amongst the well situated at the expense of the weak seemed to have shifted to the board room of the Liberia Football Association with world football governing body (FIFA) hosting three days of peace talks to end bitter rivalry, which has worsened the already declining state of Liberian Football.
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