{"id":451895,"date":"2018-01-03T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/03\/president-elect-george-weah-to-attend-caf-awards-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:30:26","slug":"president-elect-george-weah-to-attend-caf-awards-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/03\/president-elect-george-weah-to-attend-caf-awards-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"President-Elect George Weah to attend CAF awards on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/53922327.295.jpg\" alt=\"George Weah\" title=\"George Weah\" width=\"295\" height=\"209\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Liberian president-elect, George Weah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1514997026_968_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Liberian president-elect George Weah will be among the top dignitaries that will grace this year&#8217;s CAF Awards in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Weah who was voted as president of Liberia in December is expected to arrive in the country by midday to attend Thursday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>Aides close to Mr. Weah have revealed, Weah is coming to Accra at the invitation of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).<\/p>\n<p>CAF has invited Mr Weah as part of the new move by the continental body&#8217;s leader Ahmad Ahmad to give more recognition to football legends.<\/p>\n<p>He is the only African footballer to have won both Fifa World Player of the Year and the prestigious Ballon D&#8217;Or.<\/p>\n<p>Africa will crown its best soccer player on Thursday but the electors have a tough choice in deciding between the three candidates for the 2017 African Footballer of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Borussia Dortmund and Gabon goes up against Liverpool\u2019s Senegalese Sadio Mane and Egyptian Mohamed Salah with none of the final three candidates having a defining achievement over the last 12 months to set them apart.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberian president-elect, George Weah Liberian president-elect George Weah will be among the top dignitaries that will grace this year&#8217;s CAF Awards in Ghana. Weah who was voted as president of Liberia in December is expected to arrive in the country by midday to attend Thursday&#8217;s event. Aides close to Mr. Weah have revealed, Weah is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":451897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}