By Calvin Quays|contributor
Supporters of the Chelsea Football Club based in Liberia has launched the Liberia Chelsea Fan Club intended to support and promote the team among Liberians across the country.
Speaking at the Launching ceremony held over the weekend at the Monrovia City Hall, the Chief Executive Officer of the Liberia Bank for Development and Investment (LBDI) and also President of the Liberia Banker Association (LBA) stated that soccer is a unify force that bring people together from diverse back ground in any society and Liberia cannot be exception.
Mr. John B. S. Davies who also a fan and supporter of Chelsea, stressed that the official launch of the Chelsea Fan Club in Liberia is a dream come true for many Liberians who have supported and continue to support the team since the days of the Current President of Liberia, Dr. George Manneh Weah was playing for Chelsea.
Mr. Davies noted that the Chelsea Fan Club in Liberia has engaged into clean-up campaign across Monrovia and its environs and hoped that other social services will be provided in various communities around the country.
According to him, supporters of Chelsea in Liberia should come together and undertake projects that could unify Liberians from walk of life and hope to invite some officials of the Chelsea Football Club from England to visit Liberia.
He narrated that as the result of President Weah on the Chelsea team during his professional soccer days in England, he and some colleagues were treated well at the airport in England because of him at the time.
Mr. Davies emphasized that since than he has being strong supporter of the Chelsea team and hope that all Chelsea fans in Liberia will work together through the fan club to promote image of Chelsea in Liberia.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Chelsea Fan Club Liberia, Horatio Bobby Willie said the process to establish the Chelsea Fan Club Liberia started in 2014 with contact from a Liberian based in England, but it was not successful during lack of contact initially.
Mr. Willie stated that the Chelsea Fan Club Liberia is not just a local based fan club, but it has been established with the consent of the Chelsea supporter club worldwide.
He pointed out that the Chelsea Fan Club Liberia will engage into charity ventures to help the orphanage and old folks around the country, noting that Chelsea Fan Club around world mainly focuses on such activities in their respective countries.
He indicated that the Chelsea Fan Club will establish Chapters in the rest of the 14 counties in Liberia.
Mr. Willie stressed that activities undertaken by the club has been done through the contribution of members of the organization, noting that it is the first time in Liberia for a European football team fan club to organize such a launch in the country.
Chelsea Football Club were founded on 10 March 1905[2] at The Rising Sun pub, (now The Butcher’s Hook) opposite today’s main entrance to the ground on the Fulham Road.
Since there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough, the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, was settled on after London FC, Kensington FC and Stamford Bridge FC had been rejected.[3] Blue shirts were adopted by Mears, after the racing colors of Lord Chelsea, along with white shorts and dark blue socks
