George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah (born 1 October 1966)
is a
Liberian politician and former
football forward. He spent 14 years of his professional football career playing for clubs in
France,
Italy, and
England, winning titles in these three countries. In 1995, he was named
FIFA World Player of the Year,
European Footballer of the Year, and
African Footballer of the Year. Weah has since become a humanitarian and politician in Liberia, and ran unsuccessfully in the
2005 Liberian presidential election, losing to
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the second round of voting. Weah is the only FIFA World Player of the Year who failed to qualify for
FIFA World Cup with his national team.
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