MONDAY: The Liberia Football Association has suspended goalkeeper Sam Doegbee of Watanga FC with immediate effect for one year from all football activities.
Goalkeeper Doegbee on October 2, 2018 attacked and assaulted Referee George Rogers in front of the medical room at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium.
According to a release from the LFA, in the process Referee’s Rogers’ polar wrist watch supplied by FIFA to all international Referees got missing, the cost of the polar watch and the referee medical bill is put at three hundred and twenty United States Dollars($320.00).
Player Doegbee as part of his penalty for the misconduct is to pay all the expensive incurred by the referee.
The action as exhibited by player Doegbee is in voilation of the LFA 2018 National League Rules and Regulations; Chapter 20, article 24, section 1.5a and section 1.8, the LFA release revealed.
Section1.5a states that any player or club official who shall assault a match official or LFA official before, during and after the match shall face the following penalties:
Section 1.8 states that misconduct towards a match official away from the field of play where misconduct can be traced to a match shall be dealt with as if it has been committed on the field of play.
The LFA action was a result of the referee report from the match played between Barrack Young Controllers and Watanga FC on October 2, 2018 at the ATS.
