Following the national football team’s recent 1-0 victory against the Warriors of Zimbabwe in the ongoing 2019 African Nations Cup qualifier, President George Weah announced a plan to place players on the government’s payroll.
Alphonso Davies Selects Canada Over Liberia
Born November 2, 2000, in Monrovia, Davies moved to Ghana with his family to escape the civil war. At the age of five, his family moved to Ontario, Canada, where he grew up and started playing for their youth team, the Edmond Internationals. He then moved to the Edmond Strikers, where he was spotted by the Whitecaps’ scouts in 2015.
A Young Liberian Makes His Name in Major League Soccer
Liberian-Canadian Alphonso Davies is experiencing top flight football with a Major League Soccer team, the Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club.