"This goal, he was looking for it alone," exclaimed his former teammate Daniel Bravo for Le Figaro in December 2017, thinking back to the one nicknamed "Mister George". Because before being the president of Liberia, George Weah wrote the beautiful pages of the history of Paris Saint-Germain. With a successful passage to AS Monaco, the attacker arrives in the capital and quickly makes the powder speak. With his 11 goals and 13 from David Ginola in Ligue 1, Weah led PSG to its second title of champion of France, in 1994. "There was no need even to listen to it: it was enough to look at it to learn, breath Pascal Nouma for France Football . Physically, he was a menhir already, and then he was lively, tall, technical ... "
"It's a Ballon d'Or goal."
Luis Fernandez, PSG coach in 1994Elected Ballon d'Or in 1995, the year he left Paris for AC Milan, Weah left an unforgettable memory a year earlier: his goal against Bayern Munich in the group stage of the Champions League (victory 1-0). "He recovered a ball far from the opponent's cage, and then he made a series of dribbles, a slalom in the German defense, before striking a powerful shot, told us Bravo. We were very happy, but not surprised. Every day in training, he slammed goals like that! ”
Before the game, Weah went shopping
“It's a goal by Ballon d'Or, analyzes its coach at the time, Luis Fernandez, for FF . I trained two, Weah and Ronaldinho, and they were capable of such exploits. They had something different, a gift, they were out of the ordinary. ”The coach who won the Cup in 1996 with Paris also said that before the match, Weah had“ asked for permission to go to town », In Munich:« He had gone in secret and returned with suitcases full of gifts. On and off the field, that was George: generosity, humanity. ”
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The Bayern of Oliver Kahn and Lothar Matthaüs KO, PSG was making a name for itself on the European scene. With six wins in six matches in the group stage, Paris entered the final phase of the C1 for the first time. The capital club even hoisted itself up to the semi-finals, offering the Barça scalp trained by Johan Cruyff in the previous round (1-1, 2-1). Then, like Bayern against Ajax, Paris fell at the gates of the final, facing AC Milan (0-1, 0-2), in what remains as the best performance ever achieved by Parisians in the most prestigious European cups. Neymar and Mbappé would be well advised to follow George Weah's example on Tuesday when moving to Germany in turn, to Borussia Dortmund.
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