Weah Unhappy With Liberian Football

   Weah Heading to the Lonestar Dressing room at halftime during the Nambia game


The name Weah is a house whole word not only in Liberia, but the whole of Africa and the rest of the world. The footballer turned politician who stunned many when he won a hat trick of titles including the African, European and world footballer of the year award, has had a very illustrious career which also included two African Nations Cup in 1996 and 2002 as well as great stints with Tonerre Klara Club, AS Monaco, Paris Saint Germain, AC Milan, Chelsea, Manchester City, Olympique Marseille and Al-Jazeera.

But, from a Lone Star perspective, the 1986 national team debutant led a generation that included a plethora of stars that cruised to the 2002 African Nations Cup and narrowly missed out for a place at the story

Since hanging his boot is June 2005, but first retiring from international football after the Lone Star 1-0 loss to the Super Eagles of Nigeria in January, 2002 in the group stage of the Mali 2002 Nations Cup, the Lone Star or Liberian football from a paradoxical manner has continued to suffocate in the midst of the legendary George Weah.

Weah it can be recollected opted to take over the helm of the country’s football by declaring his intention to run the Liberia Football Association (LFA) as president, but there were a host of bottle necks with the issue of him not being a club president prior to his decision led to such vision being aborted.

Weah has since left the country’s football landscape and the country’s game continue to retrogress. On February 29, the legend was tempted to help the Lone Star during their solitary victory of Namibia in the 2014 African Nations Cup qualifier, as he at half time, when the score was still goalless went to the locker room to give some tactical instruction to the players, and in the end, the team won, courtesy of a close range shot from Swedish based Dioh Williams.

According to reports however, Weah was unhappy with the team’s overall performance as sources closer to him said he after the first half send a paper down from his seat in the VIP lounge to caretaker Coach Thomas Kojo which was intended to guide the team tactically, but he Kojo reportedly refused to go through it and opted to ignore the ambassador’s instruction as he placed the piece of paper in his pocket, apparently due to the fact that he did not have the time to read it or just opted to ignore the instruction from the legendary African footballer.

In the end, it was reported that Weah branded the players as being indiscipline, not that they were rude, but that they were not observing team play or the element of playing as a unit and also expressed the fear that the team might regret in the second leg for not winning by a comprehensive margin in the first leg at the ATS.

Also, the former IE danger man was equally upset to see his former side the yellow boys being drubbed by visiting Wydad Casablanca of Morocco in a CAF Confederations Cup match at the ATS. Weah, who had earlier trained with the visitors at the SKD based on an invitation from the team’s Portuguese Coach Benito Floro, went to the locker room of IE at half time when the score line was still blank to give tactical guidance on how to engage the second period, but to the surprise of the former deadly striker, the country’s darling club conceded two cheeky goals which made Weah to abandon the match. “Weah was too furious to see IE play in such a dreadful and disorganized manner as the Moroccans ran the show in getting two goals. “He says our game is too low and poor and says a lot needs to be done”, one close aide of Weah told this medium.

Thus, Weah seems sad and unhappy with the current state of the country’s game and while many are urging him to play an active role with the LFA president Musa Bility recently saying he has encouraged him to come on board, the GREAT WEAH is just too far and seemingly has no time or plans to make a return to the game that brought him to stardom in helping it make strides here.