George Weah is regarded as the best African player ever to have laced his boots
On a lazy Sunday afternoon in 1995, George Ousman Oppong Weah set off on a lanky, dribbling run to score against Italian football side Verona what to date remains one of the most astonishing goals in club football. Few would have foreseen his subsequent political career would adopt the same kind of twists and turns. For a man who regularly gobbled up opposing defenders for breakfast and got as much as he gave, his recent loss of the leadership of the political party he founded to propel him to the Liberian presidency was enough to reduce him to tears.
