FIFA Licensed agent and former Liberty Professionals Football Cub administrative personnel, Pamela Ansah-Asamoah, believes that the adoption of Liberty’s system and the eventual levelling up of competition, played a key role in the Dansoman-based team’s slide.
She said this in an exclusive extensive interview with ChannelOne Sports where she reflected on working with Liberty Professionals Founder Sly Tetteh and the need for Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s to get the right scouts to get players for the Ghana Premier League behemoths. (Click highlighted text to read full story)
Liberty was consistently a top four team in the Ghana Premier League while producing players like Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari, William Tierro, and Michael Helegbe among others but got relegated three seasons ago and have become a full-fledged football academy.
The football agent who does extensive work as a football scout believes that other clubs copying Liberty’s system of promoting young players and not veteran players played a major role in Liberty’s drop off.
“Liberty has always had the vision for the young generation and at that time, Liberty was virtually the only team running that vision so I think eventually, most teams took up that plan…I think they became like everybody else. Before, they were standing out because they were running the young generation, running that plan of young players and introducing them and other teams took up and they became par with everybody else.”
“When they started introducing the matured ones, sometimes dealing with the matured players is a bit difficult…and that’s where the issues started.”
