Yeh, its a shame, but talk of immature leadership! Could get done for
foolish reasons.
Njok malik
>From: Solomon Sylva <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Africa, when shall we start to appreciate our HEROS!
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:15:34 -0500
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>Sad ending to George Weah's National Football career.
>
>When shall we African appreciate someone like George Weah and learn to
>use that to our developmental advantage?
>
>Good grief! If the allegations are true, then we definitely need to wakeup!
>
>Peace
>King Solomon
>
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>Tuesday, 29 January, 2002, 10:45 GMT
>Weah's last stand
>
>
>Weah wants to spend more time with his family
>By BBC Sport Online's Eniwoke Ibagere in Mopti
>
>Liberian legend George Weah made his final exit from the international
>football stage, saying
>he had achieved everything he possibly could. But despite helping to put
>Liberia on the world
>football map, Weah, 35, has vowed not to return to his country unless there
>is a change of government.
>"I have discovered that I'm a wanted man back home in Liberia because the
>government there doesn't
>like me," Weah told journalists.
>
>The Lone Star's influential captain and former World Footballer of the year
>was mobbed by fans after
>his side's 1-0 defeat by Nigeria in an African Cup of Nations match on
>Monday night. The defeat meant
>that Liberia were knocked out of the tournament.
>
>Weah had always said he would retire from international football after the
>Cup of Nations and, as he
>did so, he took a swipe at his government. He claimed the country's leaders
>were jealous of his popularity
>and success. "I did everything in my life to make Liberia a great country
>through football," Weah said in
>an emotional farewell speach. "But I cannot understand why the Liberian
>government should be hounding me.
>So I will not return to Liberia until there is a change of government."
>
>
>Weah, who now plays his club football in the United Arab Emirates, said as
>well as it being his last game for
>Liberia it would also be the last time he would coach the national side.
>"Now I want to concentrate on playing
>for my club and give time to my family," he said. "But this doesn't mean I
>won't be useful to the Liberian players.
>Many of them are my friends and we have had a fantastic time all these
>years.
>
>"I will be most happy to help the players get contracts for clubs but it's
>definitely over for me after helping
>Liberia to play in two Nations Cup finals." The striker, with a nomadic
>career playing for clubs in Cameroon,
>France, Italy and England, said his one regret was not taking Liberia to
>the World Cup finals.
>"It is kind of sad that I couldn't realise that dream but maybe it was
>never to be," he said.
>
>"But I think this is something the new generation of Liberia should take
>seriously and many of us will be ready
> to help out." Liberia narrowly missed qualifying for the World Cup in
>Korea and Japan when Nigeria pipped
>them by a single point to clinch the group's sole ticket. In his glittering
>career, Weah won several football awards,
>including the 1995 World, European and African Footballer of the Year.
>
>He won the French FA Cup with Paris Saint Germain and the Italian League
>title with AC Milan.
>The striker also had a semi-professional musical career and won many
>humanitarian awards.
>At the 2002 Nations Cup, he will also be remembered for doing what he does
>best.
>He scored the tournament's opening goal - a header - in Liberia's 1-1 draw
>with hosts Mali.
>
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