Basketball in Africa

To Resume Nat'l Basketball Duty

Over 20 diehard Invincible Eleven & Majestic Sports Association (IE&MSA) fans, who claim they voted in Dr. Richard V. Tolbert and his team into power, are urging the leadership to pay a US$8,800 debt the basketball team owes FIBA-Africa.
The fans, who averred to love the game of basketball, are also appealing to the Tolbert leadership to galvanize support in the interest of the membership, in order to make sure that the Invincible Eleven Basketball team participate in the 2010/2011 National Basketball championship, by paying the three-year-old debt.
Reports have it that the Invincible Eleven Basketball team got indebted to FIBA-Africa in 2007, when they failed to pay the hotel bills in Ivory Coast at the time they were representing Liberia as 2006/2007 Basketball Champion in Zone III male qualifier games of FIBA.
Owing to the failure to refund the money paid by FIBA-Africa to the Ivorian hotel, as per mandate from the international basketball organization, the IE Basketball team was expelled from participating in the local league until the refund has been made.
The new leadership of IE&MSA for the next two years are president-elect Richard V. Tolbert; vice president-elect for Administration, Francois Juniusr; vice president-elect for Operation and Technical Services, Alfred Sayon; vice president-elect for Fan Clubs, Jonathan 'Boye Charles'; and secretary general-elect Momolu Sirleaf.
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