George Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah (born October 1, 1966 in Monrovia) is a Liberian politician and previous football player. Around 1995, he was named FIFA World Player of the Year (he is the only African to have won this desired title), European Footballer of the Year, and African Footballer of the Year. He is widely considered a better African streaming video player ever. Weah has since turn into the human-centred & political figure within Liberia, & is going in the 2005 presidential election.

Personal life
Weah was born & raised in the Clara Town slum area of Monrovia. He occurs as member of the Kru tribe, which hails from south-eastern Liberia's Grand Kru County, one of the poorest areas of the united states. His parents were William T. Weah, Sr. & Anna Quayeweah. He was raised largely by his agnate grannie, Emma Klonjlaleh Black. He attended lyceum at Muslim Congress & senior high at Wells Hairston High School. Prior to his association football career allowed him to move overseas, Weah worked for the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation as a plugboard technician.

Weah has recieved the Bachelor of Arts in Sports Management from Parkwood University in London. This school was in the future decried as a diploma mill and closed by the US Federal Trade Commission, in collaboration sustaining a British government. Likewise, witharound 1999, he recieved an Honorary Doctorate in Humanity from either the A.M.E. Zion University College in Liberia.

He is married to Clar Weah, the Brooklyn native of Jamaican origin, and is the father of troika babies: George Jr., Martha, & Timothy George.

Football career
On the club level, Weah has played for Invincible Eleven in his native Liberia, Tonnerre Yaoundé in Cameroon, Monaco, Paris Saint Germain, and Olympique Marseille in France, AC Milan in Italy, Chelsea and Manchester City in England and Al Jazeera in the United Arab Emirates. He won a French league by owning PSG around 1995 & a Italian league by having Milan around 1996 & 1999.

When successful when he was at club level, Weah was non breathe to bring above that profits to the Liberian national team. He has done all about sustaining a squad from either swimming to coaching job to financing it, however Liberia failed to produce one World Cup, falling just the point short inside qualifying for the 2002 tournament.

Humanitarianism

Weah occurs as devoted humanitarian for his war-torn united states. At a 2004 ESPY Awards, he won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for his efforts. Weah was known as by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. He has as well been known as the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, the role which he has suspended when he pursues a political career.

Soccer and children
Weah has tried to utilise association football as a way to bring happiness & promote education for youngsters within Liberia. Within 1998, Weah launched the Video known as Lively Up Africa featuring the singer Frisbie Omo Isibor and eight other African football stars. A yield from either this Video attend youngsters's programmes in the countries of origin of the jock included.

Weah is President of the Junior Agents, the association football team he founded withwithin Monrovia in 1994. As a way to encourage immature population to remainside in school, a club's simply requirement for membership is school attendance. Several of the immature humans, recruited from either tons all over Liberia, develop never to return in to play for the Liberian national team.

Political career

Although he experienced denied interest around the politics inside the period of his association football career, in mid-November 2004, Weah announced his intention to stand in the October 2005 presidential election, having previously been the subject of the petition urging him to process; he received a hero's welcome upon his arrival inside Monrovia in late November and is widely considered the preferred in the election. His eligibility was at the start questioned due to debates all over his citizenship (Weah with allegedly adopted French citizenship when at PSG; he has as well sleep in The Bronx for many years at present) however he was officially confirmed in 13 August 2005 as the candidate for the Congress for Democratic Change when the election commission published its final names. Forswearing the mandate of 51% on the 11 October elections, the election may last into the run-off between the two leading candidates. A begin-off vote may require place in 8 November, & may pit Weah against previous Globe Bank employee and minister of finance, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

Politics

Good deal of Weah's politics come influenced per recent Second Liberian Civil War. Starting around 1999, the conflict come to a guide around 2003 whilst the United States stationed a Marine Expeditionary Unit with 2300 Marines offshore while Nigeria sent in peacekeepers as part of the Economic Community of West African States force, forcing President Charles Taylor to resign on August 11, 2003 & flee into exile within Nigeria. Following, everthing of the candidates stand pushed for the politics of peace. Weah has repeatedly emphasized a want for UN's peace mission within his united states, called UNMIL, to stay at least through the end of his number 1 presidency of professional.

Weah's want of own experience & of a prestigious college degree develop weighed heavy against him in the period of the campaign. Opponents suppose that Weah is manipulated whenever elective. A single caring aspect of Weah's want of case is the fact that he was non included therein conflict. Even so, a select few humans understand little chance around Weah becoming corrupt, as a association football star is already quite flush.

Weah has likewise promised to bring moo dollars and cents housing to the countryside, in which humans typically sleep in houses. Weah has talked all about a require to bring electricity, heading a river, & better education to these areas, areas in which he lived for a few instance in the Seventies.

He has too known as for the president's term inside professional to exist as reduced to quatern years from either captain hicks.