By By: The People News Online
Monrovia — Liberia will never move forward in football and will never win anything until the country fully apologizes to George Weah — that is the blunt warning from a Liberian woman, Miata Tata Kollie, whose social media post is now stirring heated debate among Liberian football fans.
The post comes at a time when the Liberia national team, Lone Star, has endured 24 years of consistent failure. Since last qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations in 2002 with the famous “Weah XI,” Liberia has missed 12 straight qualifying campaigns. Across 68 AFCON qualifiers in that period, Lone Star has managed only 17 wins against 37 defeats, scoring 57 goals and conceding 123. The team has also never reached a FIFA World Cup, coming closest in the heartbreak of the 2002 qualifiers. Recent results continue the trend — losses to Equatorial Guinea and Algeria knocked Liberia out of the 2025 AFCON qualifiers, and the 2027 campaign has already started with defeats to Rwanda and Mali. It is a generation that has grown up never seeing Liberia at AFCON.
In a post that has been widely shared, Kollie said Liberia continues to disrespect its own heroes, and that treatment is costing the nation its football progress.
“Liberia will never move forward in football if we continue treating our own heroes with disrespect. Ur mark my words. Liberia will never win nothin till ur can apologize fully to George Weah, that’s the only way,” she wrote.
Kollie said some Liberians need to sit down and remember what Weah did for the country, noting that long before many could proudly say “I am a Liberian,” Weah was carrying the flag across the world and making people know Liberia through football.
She recalled that Weah became the first and only African to win the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year in 1995, a record FIFA still recognizes as the only African to have won the FIFA World Player award.
“U dnt have to agree with everything abt the man, but dnt erase the history he created for Liberia. N be4 u judge him based on wht u hear frm others, do ur own research n learn abt his journey,” she added.
Her post concluded with a call for national reflection: “Sometimes we are too quick to disrespect the people who once gave us something to be proud of. Liberia, let’s learn to honor our own.”
