Liberia has reached a fresh milestone in the development of football in the country. Following the refurbishment of the Stade Antoinette Tubman Stadium, which was completed last September, the Liberia Football Association (LFA) opened its new headquarters in the capital, Monrovia, on Friday 28 April. The project was funded by FIFA Forward, one of the most ambitious development programmes in the world of sport, which is now entering its third phase. FIFA also provided logistical support and human resources through its regional office in Dakar.
“It’s an important step and we can only be grateful and say a big thank you to Gianni Infantino and his team,” said Liberian President George Weah. “We will keep working together to take Liberian football to the next level.
The new head office, which cost USD 1.5m, is the first to be owned by the LFA since its foundation in 1936 and will act as the nerve centre of Liberian football. As well as providing administrative services and hosting refereeing activities, it will serve as a venue for all national team training camps in every age group.
FIFA Council member and CAF executive committee member Amaju Melvin Pinnick travelled to Monrovia to represent world football’s governing body. “I want to congratulate all of you on this beautiful building. We are very proud of it at the FIFA Council,” said Pinnick, a former head of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). “We were very excited about this project. Gianni Infantino would have loved to have been here. Unfortunately, he did not have the time and asked me to represent him and to stand witness to this historic day in the development of football in Africa.
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