{"id":389159,"date":"2018-01-05T16:29:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=389159"},"modified":"2018-01-05T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:29:59","slug":"weah-invites-wenger-inauguration-president-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=389159","title":{"rendered":"Weah invites Wenger to inauguration as president of Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-body\" class=\"story-body sp-story-body gel-body-copy\">\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said that he has been invited by the\u00a0new Liberia president George Weah\u00a0to his inauguration later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger was Weah&#8217;s manager at French side Monaco between 1988 and 1992 but he is not sure he will able to attend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been invited by George to come to the day where he will be the President,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe I will be busy but if I am suspended (for his comments on referees) I will have time to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wenger is facing a Football Association disciplinary hearing\u00a0for various comments he made about referees in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Arsenal boss admits he still finds it hard to believe what Weah has achieved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The life of this guy is a real film. It is unbelievable. It can make a fantastic film,&#8221; said an excited Wenger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember when I saw him the first time at Monaco, coming in a bit lost, not knowing anybody, not being rated by anybody as a player and becoming the best player in the world in 1995 and today becoming the president of his country.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger also recalled the passion and love Weah had for Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went with George during the period when there was war in Liberia and I have seen how much he suffered for his country,&#8221; Wenger added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the thing which was continuous in his country, the love for his country and for his people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today when I look back I see him crying when war was on in Liberia so it&#8217;s a happy story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish he has a happy presidency and I would like to say this guy is an example for everybody who plays football today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weah won a presidential run off poll last month beating Joseph Boakai with more than 60% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>He will succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa&#8217;s first elected female president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer id=\"story-footer\" class=\"story-footer\">\n<div class=\"clearfix gel-mb+\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said that he has been invited by the\u00a0new Liberia president George Weah\u00a0to his inauguration later this month. Wenger was Weah&#8217;s manager at French side Monaco between 1988 and 1992 but he is not sure he will able to attend. &#8220;I have been invited by George to come to the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":389169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[3956,15895],"class_list":["post-389159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-arsene-wenger","tag-weah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/389169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}