Lone Star Germany Trip Called Off

Liberia: Lone Star Germany Trip Called Off

The Analyst (Monrovia)

15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008


Several Liberia's Lone Star players have been denied German visa because, sources say, the players' ages in their passports don't present their physical appearance.

German consular office is suggesting that the players are too old for their young ages and therefore don't qualify for German visa.


Lone Star had planned a training camp leading to the Gambian match in the opening stages of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africaâ„¢ in Leipzig, Germany from 12 - 23 May.

Some of the players denied include Murphy Nagbe, James Koko Lomell, Melvin King, George Baysah, Isaiah Benson and Steve Mennoh.

Liberia football authority called off the trip because these are key players whose presence are essential to the team preparation, therefore making the trip without them is not only vile and despicable, it's a hitch to the team preparation with just two weeks to the crunch Gambia ties.

Were in the world do they deny visas due to hard faces? The Germans shou;d have known that most boys born and raised in Sunny Africa have hard faces. Maybe we should deny them visas from coming to Africa due to their pointed noises. Oh my God I can't believe the people at the German embassy in Liberia are this igniorance.

thank you for the information weah fan.we really need them to be together, train as a team get to know each other better by playing some test matches and have a team spirit but we don't have time in our favor.very dissapointing from the german embassy,how can u determine someone age by their faces but that wouldn't discourage us.......

Like us be very realistics. Some of our players can't be 21 or 18 every four years. These guys are old but they alway try to fake their ages and I am glad they are busted. They need to come in clean with their age so we can know if they are aging and the younger kids can fill their vault. Some of these players are between 26-32 years old and they still lie and say they are 18, 19, or 21 years old.