Liberia’s national Football team, the Lone Stars, will make an early journey to Uganda ahead of their 2014 World Cup qualifying tie against the hosts at the Mandela National Stadium, Namboole on Saturday.
Rogers Mulindwa, the Head of Communications in the Federation, said that the 32-man Liberia team will arrive at 2pm aboard a Kenya Airways flight according to MTNFootball.com.
“We are going to give them a good hotel and make sure they have a good stay in Uganda,” added Mulindwa.
The Lone Stars are currently second in Group J with four points. Senegal, who will face Angola in the other group game, top the group with five points, while Uganda are bottom with two points after two draws and one loss.
Reports from Monrovia indicate that lead striker Francis Grandpa Doe, who is based in Malaysia, will miss the game due to an injury.
Doe was among 12 overseas players invited by the Lone Star’s technical staff, but was ruled out.
Indonesia-based Boakai Foday will mend the gap. Liberia will also be deprived of defender Solomon Grimes.
Grimes has been a regular in the right-back for the Lone Stars, but was also left out of the squad to Kampala after he sustained injury while on club duty.
South African-based striker and skipper Anthony Laffor, who scored one of the goals in their 2-0 win over Uganda in March, was also passed 90 percent fit on Sunday by the team’s medical team.
As the Lone Stars jet-in, the Cranes, who arrived this morning from Libya where they lost 3-0 in an International friendly, will regroup for training this afternoon.
