The Director of Football Referees at the Liberian football house, Stanley Konah has refuted a media report indicating that Liberia has lost its slot on the International referees’ list for the 2022 calendar year.
Recently, the Confederation of African Football released its final list of referees to officiate the 2022 African Nations Cup in Cameroon without Liberian referees being short-listed; something that raised serious concerns among football lovers in the country.
But, making clarification to some members of the Sports Writers Association of Liberia recently at the ATS in Monrovia, Mr. Konah, said despite the Liberian referee’s omission from the Nations Cup, the country maintained her position on the FIFA referees list for 2022.
” The FIFA badge Referees are in several categories, namely: elite A, B, and C. Our match officials are in elite B and C but to have said we have lost our slot for the 2022 calendar year is not true. We have maintained our position up there. The only thing we wanted is a little increment in the number of officials, which we sent 12 but they accepted nine. The Nations Cup or World Cup is here and the Referees board has elected officials to officiate in those tournaments. Nobody questions their selections because it is their job to determine which Referees they select, but their selection normally comes from Referees who are placed in elite A”, Mr. Konah expressed.
According to him, only ๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ย ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ญ was selected as the female FIFA badge Referee in the past, but today we have Hannah Moses and Tracy Chayee added to the list which is welcoming news for us. Hassan Corner is in elite B which makes him the most senior Liberian referee. Hassan actually has a chance of being in elite A based on his performance in 2022. Hassan has gone through Video Assistant Referee (VAR) training recently which I think you guys are aware of, Mr. Konah narrated.
Here are the Nine out of 12 nominated Liberian referees that have been accepted by FIFA to officiate international matches in 2022, beginning with central Referees:
๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ก, ๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ญ, ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐ก, ๐๐ญ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ก, ๐๐ซ and ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ก
๐ผ๐จ๐จ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐จ are:
๐๐จ๐๐ฅย ๐๐จ๐, ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฆย ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ, ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฒย ๐๐ก๐๐ฒ๐๐, and ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐กย ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ
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