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George Weah’s son surpasses father by playing and scoring at World Cup

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Tim Weah celebrates
Doha, Qatar

It was a landmark moment when Tim Weah scored for the USA in the match against Wales Monday night.

He did what his father never achieved. Tim is the son of Liberian president, George Weah, a great player in his active footballing days and the only player to have concurrently win footballer of the year across the globe and in two continents.

But George Weah never had the opportunity of playing at the World Cup. The closest he was to achieving this was 20 years ago.

But his Liberia wer upstaged at the last moment by Nigeria’s Super Eagles in the contest to get to Korea/Japan World Cup.

President Weah is in Qatar at the moment, ostensibly to watch his son, Tim.

George Weah and Tim some years ago

As the US took the lead against Wales in the 36th minute, Tim Weah became the first player to score for the United States in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar 

The player scored something that his father, the 1985 concurrent World Footballer of the Year, European Footballer of the Year and African Footballer of the Year, could not with Liberia

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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