Africa-Press – Liberia. Monrovia -The last time LFA’s former Vice President attended the annual football association gathering was in 2015, one year following the elective congress that saw him overwhelmingly voted as Vice President for Operations, defeating long-time football administrator the late Adolph Lawrence.
Nine years down the line, Cassell Anthony Kuoh Sr. was seen attending the 28th Ordinary Congress as a representative of FC Kallon-Liberia, a club he acquired recently.
Kuoh came to the limelight in Liberian football in 2010 when his club, now defunct, FC Fassell took the football arena by storm.
FC Fassell was one of the most organized clubs and still holds the record of the highest transfer when they paid over US$5000 for the service of Nuzohn Kolala.
The seasoned football administrator returned from the United States in 2023 after serving a seven-year jail sentence, and he has since announced his intention to contest as President of the LFA; thus becoming incumbent – Mustapha Raji’s biggest challenger for the pending 2026 elections.
However, this belief shared by many football pundits wasn’t the case during Saturday’s Congress held at the new LFA headquarters in Oldest Congo Town, where only three stakeholders were opposed to most of the proposals on the agenda; something Kouh said wouldn’t have happened had the voting process been held in secret.
According to him, the clubs voted in favor of what he termed bad proposals out of fear, and the decisions made by clubs’ representatives didn’t reflect the actuality on the ground.
He further alleged that the majority of the Clubs lack adequate finances that would allow them to make sound and independent decisions.
“What we witnessed here today will be completely different from the secret ballot elections in 2026.
“The people were afraid to put their No Cards up today because if they did so openly, they would be targeted as Raji did to others who disagreed with him.
“Besides we have realized that we need money to build the Clubs’ financial capacity and make them independent. We can not develop football in the absence of money.
“So we intend to give each Club in the First and Second Divisions and Women’s Upper League US$50,000 in the first two years of our takeover, and that amount will be increased to US$75,000 in the third and fourth years.
“I have always said we wouldn’t be at the FA for long. We intend to stay for just two terms to fix our football, the Chief Financier of the Kuoh Foundation told journalists minutes after the LFA 28th Ordinary Congress adjourned on April 13, 2024.
Cassell Kuoh further asserted that the LFA doesn’t need to rely only on Orange-Liberia and a few other companies for sponsorship. “As president, we will lobby with our friends – international partners to source the rightful sponsorships to develop Liberia’s football.
Kuoh purchased First Division outfit FC Kallon-Liberia, a Club battling relegation at the time of the takeover on 25 February 2024; for a fee reported around US$30,000.
As the new owner and president of FC Kallon-Liberia, formerly Muscat FC, Kuoh revealed a plan to rename his Club FC Fassell for the 2024-2025 league season, and onward.
The Liberian businessman reportedly paid the players and members of the technical staff two months salary arrear owed them by the Club’s previous owners on the same day he took over the team.
And he recently paid each member of his team US$200 for saving the Club from relegation to the second tier of Liberian football on the final day of the 2023-2024 league season.
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