24/10/2021
World Girls to Kickoff Pre-season Tourney
By Jaheim T. Tumu
World Girls, a first division female team will kick-off a maiden pre-season tournament with eight female teams participating on October 27, 2021 at the Tusa Field in Garnerville.
The eight teams to participate in the tournament are: female champions, Determine Girls, Senior Pro, City Football Academy, Lead Monrovia Football Academy, Blanco, DC Shooters, Earth Angels and hosts World Girls.
According to the organizers, the tournament is intended for female clubs to prepare before the start of the new season.
The organizers further explained that each participant will receive $2,500 before the game, with the winner walking with LD$60,000.00 and the runner-up being awarded LD$40,000.00.
World Girls president, Madam Rochell Woodson, explained to SportsLiberia that the tournament is a way of keeping players in form ahead of the new league season.
Madam Woodson, who is dubbed the 'Iron Lady' of Liberian Football, revealed that the tournament will be hosted annually with an option to increase the participating teams.
Said Madam Woodson, "We will have this pre-season tournament every year before the league starts, and next year the teams will be increase."