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The day Harambee Stars police-marked President Weah

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George Weah of Liberia (right) and Kenya's Abbas Khamis Magongo during the African Cup of Nations qualifier in nairobi.

The world football body, Fifa, once described him as “the precursor of the multi-functional strikers...” That was many years ago.

Today, George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah — a man whose name reads like a sentence — is the president of Liberia. He is definitely a man of many superlatives.

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