CHAPTER 8ANA
Soccer, or football as it’s known in Liberia, can be said with considerable accuracy to be the national sport of Liberia. The Lone Star team, named to recall the lone star in the Liberian flag, is meant to represent Liberian pride. Winning football players are venerated with the same idolatry that baseball heroes are in the US. And it is those Liberians near the lower rungs of the economic ladder who are the most passionate followers of the game. They would spend their last penny or endure all varieties of hardship to watch their favorite matches.
President Tubman, possibly seeing no way out of it, built a football stadium with a capacity for ten thousand people in the city of Monrovia a few blocks southeast of Gurley Street on United Nations Boulevard. He wasn’t a huge fan
