George Weah

==Early life and education==
George Manneh Oppong Weah<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/liberias-presidential-runoff |title=Liberia's Presidential Runoff |first=Esther |last=Pan |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |date=7 November 2005 |access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref> was born on 1 October 1966<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/fifa/pub/magazine/fm2-96.2.html |title=FIFA Magazine – An idol for African footballers|access-date= 6 December 2006 |publisher=FIFA |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060719025546/http://www.fifa.com/fifa/pub/magazine/fm2-96.2.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 19 July 2006}}</ref> in [[Monrovia]], the capital city of Liberia, and was raised in [[Clara Town]], a slum in the city.<ref name="KN"/> He is a member of the [[Kru people|Kru]] ethnic group, which hail from south-eastern Liberia's [[Grand Kru County]], one of the poorest areas of the country.<ref name="Mba">{{cite book |first=Okyere |last=Bonna |title=Africa's Football Legends |date=2009 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=978-1-4415-7657-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bq_kqmnR8_kC&q=george+t+weah+sr&pg=PT14}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}} His father, William T. Weah Sr.,<ref>{{cite web |title=Arsene Wenger wrongly celebrates George Weah's election win |url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/arsene-wenger-wrongly-celebrates-george-weahs-election-win/ |work=Vanguard |date=12 October 2017}}</ref> was a mechanic<ref name="E"/> while his mother, Anna Quayeweah (d. 2013),<ref name="LE">{{cite web |title=George Weah's Mother Dies In Ghana |url=http://www.liberiaentertainment.com/2013/03/07/george-weahs-mother-dies-in-ghana/ |publisher=Liberia Entertainment |date=7 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021011816/http://www.liberiaentertainment.com/2013/03/07/george-weahs-mother-dies-in-ghana/ |archive-date=21 October 2017 }}</ref> was a merchant.<ref name="E"/> He has three brothers, William, Moses and Wolo.<ref name="LE"/> He was one of thirteen children largely raised by his devoutly Christian paternal grandmother,<ref name="E"/><ref name="KN"/> Emma Klonjlaleh Brown, after his parents separated<ref name="KN"/> when Weah was still a baby.<ref name="E">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Weah, George |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/weah-george |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> He attended middle school at Muslim Congress and high school at Wells Hairston High School, and reportedly dropped out in his final year of studies.<ref>{{cite web |first=Collins |last=Okinyo |title=President-Elect George Oppong Weah, from top footballer to Liberia Presidency |url=http://www.soka25east.com/president-elect-george-oppong-weahfrom-top-footballer-liberia-presidency/ |publisher=Soka25East |date=29 December 2017}}</ref>