MONROVIA, LIBERIA-After seven months of none league actions, football league activities returned to Liberia with shocking results on the opening day activities in the women’s league.
Earth Angels massive flogging on the opening day of the women’s league caught the attention of women football stakeholders, fans, players and even non-football followers.
Determined Girls stole the show on the opening day, baptizing Earth Angels with fire, something unheard of few years ago when the Angels were the Lords of women football in Liberia.
Determined Girls won the Angels in style, recording an unheard of shoreline against the Liberian women’s football Giants.
10-0 is the heaviest defeat Earth Angels have conceded in their years of dominance of women’s football in Liberia.
The defeat was expected, but the scoreline was never in any script or prediction.
Earth Angels’ failure to do business in the off season, couple with the departure of several key players, is a major contributor to the defeat of the Liberian women Giants.
Wallace Wiah Earth Angels’ lost to Determined Girls indicates an end to the reign of a side that controlled the women’s league for so long, while announcing a new era for the league.
Determined Girls performance in their massive win over Earth Angels on the opening day is a huge message to the women teams playing in the season.
The signing of several new faces, including foreign players, has confirmed Determined Girls as one of the elite women clubs in the country.
The Determined Girls, who began life in women football as whipping girls and under dogs, have over the past few years improved and have emerged as a serious title contender.
Whether Earth Angels will wake up from the disgrace by retaliating on their next opponents or fall to the lower league, is the concern that Wallace Wiah will have to address ASAP.
Whether he tries to do so or not, he will have to live with the disgrace received from a side he suffered in many fixtures, before the weekend whipping.
By: Kolubah Zayzay
