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Association football career
Senior career\"
Height	\n1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)^[2]
Position(s)	\nStriker
Years	\nTeam	\nApps	\n(Gls)
1981\u20131984	\nYoung Survivors	\n	\n
1984\u20131985	\nBong Range United	\n	\n
1985\u20131986	\nMighty Barrolle	\n	\n
1986\u20131987	\nInvincible Eleven	\n	\n
1987\u20131988	\nTonnerre Yaound\u00e9	\n	\n
1988\u20131992	\nMonaco	\n103	\n(47)
1992\u20131995	\nParis Saint-Germain	\n96	\n(32)
1995\u20132000	\nAC Milan	\n114	\n(46)
2000	\n\u2192 Chelsea (loan)	\n11	\n(3)
2000	\nManchester City	\n7	\n(1)
2000\u20132001	\nMarseille	\n19	\n(5)
2001\u20132003	\nAl Jazira	\n	\n
Total	\n	\n350	\n(134)
International career
1986\u20132018	\nLiberia	\n75	\n(18)
\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

George Manneh Oppong Weah (born 1 October 1966) is a Liberian politician and former professional footballer who served as the 25th president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Before his election for the presidency, Weah served as senator from Montserrado County. He played as a striker in his prolific 18-year professional football career which ended in 2003. Weah is the first African former professional footballer to become a head of state, and the only African Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner in history, winning both awards in 1995. He won the African Footballer of the Year 3 times and is considered one of the greatest strikers ever.^[3]^[4]\n

After beginning his career in his native Liberia, Weah spent 14 years playing for clubs in France, Italy, and England. Ars\u00e8ne Wenger brought him to Europe, signing him for Monaco in 1988. Weah moved to Paris Saint-Germain in 1992 where they won Division 1 in 1994 and became the top scorer of the 1994\u201395 UEFA Champions League. He signed for AC Milan in 1995 where he spent four successful seasons, winning the Serie A twice. Later in his career, he joined the Premier League having spells at Chelsea and Manchester City, winning the FA Cup with Chelsea, before returning to France to play for Marseille in 2001. He ended his career with Al Jazira in 2003. FourFourTwo named Weah one of the best players never to win the UEFA Champions League.\n

Weah represented Liberia at the international level, winning 75 caps, scoring 18 goals for his country, and playing at the African Cup of Nations on two occasions. He also played in a friendly in 2018, where his number 14 jersey was retired. Regarded as one of the best players never to have played at the FIFA World Cup, Scott Murray in The Guardian refers to Weah as \"hamstrung by hailing from a global minnow\".\n

Widely regarded as one of the greatest African players of all time, Weah was named FIFA World Player of the Year and won the Ballon d'Or in 1995, becoming the first and only player to win these awards while representing an African country internationally. In 1989 and 1995, he was also named the African Footballer of the Year winning the official award twice, and in 1996, he was named African Player of the Century. Known for his acceleration, speed, and dribbling ability, in addition to his goal-scoring, Weah was described by FIFA as \"the precursor of the multi-functional strikers of today\". In 2004, he was named by Pel\u00e9 in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.\n

Weah became involved in politics in Liberia following his retirement from football. He formed the Congress for Democratic Change and ran unsuccessfully for president in the 2005 election, losing to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the second round of voting. In the 2011 election, he ran unsuccessfully for vice president alongside Winston Tubman. Weah was subsequently elected to the Senate of Liberia for Montserrado County in the 2014 election. Weah was elected President of Liberia in the 2017 election, defeating the incumbent vice president Joseph Boakai, and was sworn in on 22 January 2018. Weah was defeated in a rematch with Boakai in the 2023 election.\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National cup^[a]\n	League cup^[b]\n	Europe\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Monaco\n	1988\u201389^[65]\n	Division 1\n	23	14	10	1	\u2014	5^[c]	2	\u2014	38	17\n
1989\u201390^[66]\n	Division 1\n	17	5	0	0	\u2014	7^[d]	3	\u2014	24	8\n
1990\u201391^[67]\n	Division 1\n	29	10	6	5	\u2014	5^[e]	3	\u2014	40	18\n
1991\u201392^[68]\n	Division 1\n	34	18	4	1	\u2014	9^[d]	4	\u2014	47	23\n
Total\n	103	47	20	7	\u2014	26	12	\u2014	149	66\n
Paris Saint-Germain\n	1992\u201393^[69]\n	Division 1\n	30	14	6	2	\u2014	9^[e]	7	\u2014	45	23\n
1993\u201394^[70]\n	Division 1\n	32	11	3	2	\u2014	5^[d]	1	\u2014	40	14\n
1994\u201395^[71]\n	Division 1\n	34	7	5	2	3	1	11^[f]	8	\u2014	53	18\n
Total\n	96	32	14	6	3	1	25	16	\u2014	138	55\n
AC Milan\n	1995\u201396^[72]\n	Serie A\n	26	11	3	1	\u2014	6^[e]	3	\u2014	35	15\n
1996\u201397^[73]\n	Serie A\n	28	13	2	0	\u2014	5^[f]	3	1^[g]	0	36	16\n
1997\u201398^[74]\n	Serie A\n	24	10	8	3	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	32	13\n
1998\u201399^[75]\n	Serie A\n	26	8	4	1	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	30	9\n
1999\u20132000^[76]\n	Serie A\n	10	4	2	0	\u2014	1^[f]	1	1^[g]	0	14	5\n
Total\n	114	46	19	5	\u2014	12	7	2	0	147	58\n
Chelsea (loan)\n	1999\u20132000^[77]\n	Premier League\n	11	3	4	2	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	15	5\n
Manchester City\n	2000\u201301^[78]\n	Premier League\n	7	1	\u2014	2	3	\u2014	\u2014	9	4\n
Marseille\n	2000\u201301^[79]\n	Division 1\n	19	5	1	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	20	5\n
Career total\n	350	134	58	20	5	4	63	35	2	0	478	193\n

National team	Year	Apps	Goals\n
Liberia\n	1986	4	0\n
1987	9	6\n
1988	4	1\n
1989	5	1\n
1992	1	0\n
1993	2	0\n
1994	3	1\n
1995	5	0\n
1996	6	1\n
1997	8	2\n
1998	3	0\n
1999	3	1\n
2000	7	1\n
2001	11	3\n
2002	3	1\n
2018	1	0\n
Total	75	18\n

No.\n	Date\n	Venue\n	Cap\n	Opponent\n	Score\n	Result\n	Competition\n	Ref.\n
1	30 January 1987	Monrovia, Liberia	5	$\"\"$ Nigeria		2\u20130	1987 West African Nations Cup	\n
2	1 February 1987	Monrovia, Liberia	6	$\"\"$ Burkina Faso		2\u20130	1987 West African Nations Cup	\n
3	6 February 1987	Monrovia, Liberia	7	$\"\"$ Togo		3\u20130	1987 West African Nations Cup	\n
4	26 July 1987	Monrovia, Liberia	11	$\"\"$ Morocco		2\u20131	Friendly	\n
5	20 December 1987	Monrovia, Liberia	12	$\"\"$ Burkina Faso	1\u20130	1\u20130	1987 CEDEAO Cup	\n
6	23 December 1987	Monrovia, Liberia	13	$\"\"$ Ivory Coast		1\u20132	1987 CEDEAO Cup	\n
7	21 August 1988	SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia	15	$\"\"$ Ghana	1\u20130	2\u20130	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[80]\n
8	11 June 1989	SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia	20	$\"\"$ Malawi	1\u20130	1\u20130	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[81]\n
9	4 September 1994	SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia	26	$\"\"$ Togo	1\u20130	1\u20130	1996 African Cup of Nations qualification	^[82]\n
10	23 June 1996	Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana	37	$\"\"$ Gambia	2\u20130	4\u20130	1998 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[83]\n
11	6 April 1997	Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana	42	$\"\"$ Egypt	1\u20130	1\u20130	1998 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[84]\n
12	22 June 1997	SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia	44	$\"\"$ DR Congo	2\u20130	2\u20131	1998 African Cup of Nations qualification	^[85]\n
13	20 June 1999	SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia	53	$\"\"$ Tunisia	2\u20130	2\u20130	2000 African Cup of Nations qualification	^[86]\n
14	16 July 2000	SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia	58	$\"\"$ Cape Verde	1\u20130	3\u20130	2002 African Cup of Nations qualification	^[87]\n
15	22 April 2001	SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia	65	$\"\"$ Sudan	2\u20130	2\u20130	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[88]\n
16	14 July 2001	National Stadium, Freetown, Sierra Leone	69	$\"\"$ Sierra Leone	1\u20130	1\u20130	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[89]\n
17	23 August 2001	Estadio Luis \"Pirata\" Fuente, Veracruz, Mexico	71	$\"\"$ Mexico	1\u20132	4\u20135	Friendly	^[90]\n
18	19 January 2002	Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali	72	$\"\"$ Mali	1\u20130	1\u20131	2002 African Cup of Nations	^[91]\n

v t e Presidents of Liberia
\n Roberts \n Benson \n Warner \n Payne \n Roye \n Smith \n Roberts \n Payne \n Gardiner \n Russell \n Johnson \n Cheeseman \n Coleman \n Gibson \n A. Barclay \n Howard \n King \n E. Barclay \n Tubman \n Tolbert \n Doe \n Sawyer^\u2021 \n Kpormakpor^\u2021 \n Sankawulo^\u2021 \n Perry^\u2021 \n Taylor \n Blah \n Bryant^\u2021 \n Sirleaf \n Weah \n Boakai \n	$\"\"$
\n ^\u2021 indicates non-presidential heads of state. \n

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Early life and education

Football career

Club career

Early career in Liberia, Cameroon, Monaco and France

AC Milan and individual success

Later career

International career

Style of play

Player profile

Reception

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Humanitarianism

Football and children

Football academies

Political career

2005 presidential bid

2009\u20132016

2016 presidential bid

Presidency (2018\u20132024)

Economic policy

Domestic policy

Healthcare

Foreign policy

Criticism

Song

Personal life

See also

References

External links

George Weah

Talks

23 February, 1986