{"id":304057,"date":"2026-10-07T18:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=304057"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:37:23","slug":"no-its-not-my-wish-to-become-president-of-liberia-george-weahs-mid-90s-stance-on-politics-playing-alongside-roberto-baggio-and-under-arsene-wenger-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=304057","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not my wish to become president of Liberia&#8221; George Weah&#8217;s mid 90s stance on politics, playing alongside Roberto Baggio and under Arsene Wenger revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three decades ago, FFT labelled George Weah as Liberia\u2019s next head of state, just after he\u2019d been voted as the best player in the world for 1995. We revisit the interview he gave us 30 years ago, when he insisted politics wasn\u2019t for him\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourfourtwo.com\/person\/player\/no-its-not-my-wish-to-become-president-of-liberia-george-weahs-1995-stance-on-politics-playing-alongside-roberto-baggio-and-under-arsene-wenger-revisited\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three decades ago, FFT labelled George Weah as Liberia\u2019s next head of state, just after he\u2019d been voted as the best player in the world for 1995. We revisit the interview he gave us 30 years ago, when he insisted politics wasn\u2019t for him\u2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304057"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=304057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}