By Michael Nasri Solomon
Football Writer, kick442.com – Liberia
The Liberia Football Association is set to extend the contract of the National team head coach, Peter Butler by a year, after holding talks with the English man.
On Tuesday, August 25, 2020, President Raji disclosed plans for a possible extension of the contract.
President Raji told a news conference in Monrovia that the decision was reach after a review by the Football Association technical committee on the coach’s performance over the period.
According to him, after a thorough review the FA received a formal approval from the government of Liberia through the Ministry of Youth & Sports in relations to coach future.
“The Deal will be finalize soon” Raji said.
It can be recalled, On 21 August 2019, Englishman, Peter James Butler was unveiled by the Football Association as the permanent coach of Lone Star weeks after parting ways with former Coach Thomas Kojo ahead of the country’s crunch World Cup Qualifiers match against neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Butler who signed a one-year contract was given a mandate to secure qualification for the AFCON 2021 & Qatar 2022 World Cup and with an option to review, extend based on performance in six months but was reportedly not done at all until his contract ran out in 2020.
During his one year stay with the National team, Butler managed at least two home wins – but lost in all of his away fixtures representing the red, white and blue boys in the qualifiers.
Under Butler:
V Sierra Leone
V Chad
V Egypt
V Bostwana
AFCON / World Cup qualifiers:
Stats: PL : 4 Win : 2 Lost : 2 Draw: 0
Friendlies stats: PL : 2 Lost: 1 win : 0 Draw: 1
– World Cup Preliminaries qualifiers over Sierra Leone
Leg1: Liberia 3 – 1 Sierra Leone
Leg2: Sierra Leone 1 – 0 Liberia
– Highlights on Liberia’s exit from the AFCON 2021 qualifiers to Chad
Leg1: Liberia 1 – 0 Chad
Leg2: Chad 1 – 0 Liberia ( 5 – 4) penalties
Friendlies:
Egypt 1 – 0 Liberia
Bostwana 0 – 0 Liberia
The Lone Star are paired in Group C with Nigeria, Cape Verde and the Central African Republic in the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
According to the format of the qualification, Liberia will have to finish as group winners to progress to the next round of the qualifiers.
The ten second-round group winners play home-and-away over two legs. The five winners qualify for the World Cup.
Africa has been allocated five spots in the finals, which was earlier scheduled to be played in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December.
Unfortunately, the Lone Stars of Liberia will not kick a ball in a competitive match untill May 2021, after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced revised schedules for the Cameroon 2021 and Qatar 2022 qualifiers due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The third and fourth round of matches for the 2021 AFCON qualifiers was initially slated for March 2020, but has been postponed.
Countries in contention are expected to kick a ball in the round three and four games during the week of November 9-17, while the final two matches will be held between March 22-30 in 2021.
It is good to note that the Lone Stars were knocked out of the AFCON qualifiers in October 2019, during the preliminaries. Liberia lost 4-5 from the spot with a 1-1 aggregate against CHAD.
In the world Cup qualifiers which Liberia is still a part of, the second round was scheduled to begin in October 2020 continuing until October 2021 but has now been push to May 2021.
Group C: Nigeria, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Liberia🇱🇷
↗️CAF African World Cup qualifying groups in full:
Group A: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Djibouti
Group B: Tunisia, Zambia, Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea
Group C: Nigeria, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Liberia🇱🇷
Group D: Cameroon, Ivory Coast,
Group D: Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Malawi
Group E: Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda
Group F: Egypt, Gabon, Libya, Angola
Group G: Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia
Group H: Senegal, Congo, Namibia, Togo
Group I: Morocco, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan.
Group J: DR Congo, Benin, Madagascar, Tanzania
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