Action J Movement For President George Weah Reelection 2023

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Early life and education
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Weah was born and raised in the Clara Town district of Monrovia.
[18] He is a member of the Kru ethnic group, which hail from south-eastern Liberia's Grand Kru County, one of the poorest areas of the country.

[19][self-published source] His father, William T. Weah, Sr.,

[20] was a mechanic[21] while his mother, Anna Quayeweah (d. 2013),[22] was a seller.[21] He has three brothers, William, Moses and Wolo.[22] He was one of thirteen children largely raised by his devoutly Christian paternal grandmother,[21][18] Emma Klonjlaleh Brown after his parents separated[18] when George was still a baby.[21] 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.[23] He began to play football for the Young Survivors youth club at the age of 15 and later moved to other local football clubs, assuming starring roles for Mighty Barrolle and Invicible Eleven.[18] Before his football career allowed him to move abroad, Weah worked for the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation as a switchboard