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Biography: George Oppong Weah the President -Elect of Liberia

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 George Oppong Weah was born October 1, 1966, Monrovia, Liberia, he is Liberian football player and politician and he is the newly elected President of Liberia.

 George Oppong Weah He was named African, European, and World Player of the Year in 1995—an unprecedented achievement. His talents on the field were equalled by his activism on behalf of his homeland, where he worked to bring an end to a long civil war. Weah was elected president of Liberia in 2017.

George Weah Football career

 George Oppong Weah learned his football on the dusty streets of Monrovia before playing for Invincible Eleven, Mighty Barolle, Bongrange Bonguine, and Young Survivors of Claretown. After leading Young Survivors, a team without a coach, into the first division, Weah signed a three-year semiprofessional contract with top Cameroonian club Tonnerre of Yaoundé, which won its league in his first season (1987) with the team.

Shortly thereafter, the promising 22-year-old striker was signed by AS Monaco of the French first division. In his five seasons with Monaco (1987–92), he scored 57 goals, and the team won the French Cup in 1991. His exceptional dribbling and shooting skills made him a crowd favourite, and his uncompromising work ethic and technical ability landed Weah a lucrative contract with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). In  George Oppong Weah most acclaimed season, he led PSG to the French Cup, to the league title, and to the semifinals of the 1995 European Champions League.

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Subsequently, he transferred to AC Milan (1995–2000) in Italy’s Serie A, helping the club win the 1996 and 1999 league titles. In January 2000 AC Milan loaned him to Chelsea of London, where he made an important contribution to that team’s Football Association Cup triumph. At the end of his career, he played briefly with Manchester City and Marseille in France. Weah scored more goals and played in more matches than any other African professional in Europe.

George Oppong Weah crown world best footballer in 1995

Though  George Oppong Weah established a new home for his family in New York City, he maintained close ties to Liberia, where he is known as “King George” and enjoys considerable popularity. Wracked by poverty and civil war in the 1990s, Liberia was able to sustain the Lone Star—the national team—only with the assistance of Weah, who played for, coached, and to a large extent financed the team. In 2002, after the Lone Star nearly qualified for the World Cup and then performed poorly at the African Cup of Nations, Weah retired from football.

George Weah Political Career

Following the ouster of Pres. Charles Taylor in 2003, Weah returned to Liberia as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations. In 2005 he ran for president of the country as a member of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party. After winning the first round of voting, he was defeated by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of the Unity Party (UP) in the runoff election in November 2005. Weah initially challenged the election results in court, but he dropped his case the following month.

Weah faced Johnson Sirleaf again in the October 2011 presidential election, but this time as a vice presidential candidate running on the CDC ticket with presidential candidate Winston Tubman. Johnson Sirleaf and Tubman emerged with the most votes, but—as neither garnered a majority—a runoff election was held on November 8. Less than a week before the runoff, however, Tubman cited CDC complaints about irregularities in the first round of voting and withdrew from the race. He also urged his supporters to boycott the election. International observers, who had previously declared the first round of voting to be free and fair, said his allegations were unsubstantiated. Johnson Sirleaf was reelected by a wide margin, although her victory was clouded by the withdrawal of the Tubman-Weah ticket from the race and by low voter turnout.

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In December 2014 Weah ran for the position of a senator of Montserrado county under the banner of the CDC. He handily defeated his nearest opponent, Robert Sirleaf (one of the president’s sons), taking 78 percent of the vote to Sirleaf’s almost 11 percent. Two years later, in an effort to consolidate opposition strength in preparation for the 2017 elections, Weah’s CDC merged with two other parties to form the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC). Weah was the CDC’s candidate in the October 2017 presidential election, with Jewel Howard Taylor, senator from Bong county and former wife of the ousted president Taylor, as his running mate.

George Oppong Weah wins election in Liberia

 George Oppong Weah was the top vote-getter in the first round of voting, winning about 38 percent in the October 10 poll. He and his nearest challenger, Vice President Joseph Boakai, who represented the UP and received about 29 percent of the vote, advanced to the November 7 runoff election. The election was indefinitely postponed, however, after the Supreme Court ruled on November 6 that the electoral commission could not hold the poll until the commission had finished investigating allegations of fraud and incompetence filed by the third-place winner, Charles Brumskine, and his Liberty Party (LP).

The LP’s complaints had the support of other political parties, including the UP. Furthermore, the UP alleged that Johnson Sirleaf had interfered in the electoral process to Weah’s benefit—a charge which she denied. After the electoral commission concluded its investigation and dismissed the LP’s allegations, on December 7 the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal filed by the UP and LP and ordered the runoff election to be held.

The election was held on December 26, and George Oppong Weah won an easy victory with more than 60 percent of the vote.

George Weah Son

Timothy Weah, born on February 22, 2000, in New York, is an American Soccer player who plays as a striker to Paris Saint-Germain

Tim Weah made his football debut at Rosedale SC, a small club in Queens. He played in several Florida clubs, including West Pines United FC,  before returning to New York. At age 10 he joined the academy of BW Gottschee. He played for a year with New York Red Bulls before joining Europe.

After a test passed to Chelsea, Timothy joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2014. In 2016 he signed an apprentice contract and made his debut with the U17. 

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He signed his first professional contract of 3 years with the PSG on July 3, 2017

 In 2017 he played in the U17 CONCACAF Championship. In the final, against Mexico, he showed himself as a decisive smuggler six minutes after his entry. Mexicans eventually won the competition on penalties

With the youth teams of Paris Saint-Germain, he won the U17 National Championship in 2016 and 2017.

 

George Weah's Net Worth

According to Liberia media, George Weah net worth is estimated to be $85 Million