Shekaru talatin da suka wuce, FourFourTwo ta zauna tare da mutumin da yake kan kololuwar ƙwallon ƙafa ta duniya. George Weah ya riga ya sami sunan mafi kyawun ɗan wasa a duniya daga FIFA — na farko da ya lashe Ballon d'Or daga wajen Turai — kuma hira da ya bayar ta nuna fiye da burinsa a filin wasa.

Lokacin da Weah ya karbi kyautarsa, nan da nan ya kira malaminsa Arsene Wenger zuwa mataki ya miƙa masa kofin. Wannan alama ta bayyana komai game da mutumin: ɗan wasa wanda karimcin sa wajen filin wasa ya yi daidai da gwanintarsa ciki.

Ƙungiyar mutumin ɗaya

A lokacin, Weah yana yin wani abu da ya kusan ba a iya tunaninsa ga ɗan wasa mai matsayinsa. Ya kasance yana biyan kashe-kashen ƙungiyar ƙasar Laberiya — Lone Stars — daga aljihunsa. Kuɗin tikitin jirgin sama na abokan wasansa da suke zaune Turai, kayan wasa, da kyaututtukan nasara: duk sun fito daga Weah kansa, ba tare da kobo ɗaya daga gwamnati ba.

"Na sadaukar da kuɗina na kaina saboda ina son a gyara sunan Laberiya a duniya, wanda yaƙin basasa ya lalata shi sosai, ta hanyar ƙwallon ƙafa," ya shaida wa FourFourTwo. Kuɗin waya na wata-wata kaɗai — yana ci gaba da hulɗa da iyalinsa a Monrovia a lokacin rikici — ya kai tsakanin $5,000 zuwa $6,000. Jimillar kuɗin da ya kashe wa Lone Stars, ya yarda, ya kai "dubban dubban daloli."

Ƙoƙarinsa ya ba da sakamako. Weah ya ba Laberiya damar cancanta ta farko a tarihi zuwa Kofin Afirka na Ƙasashe, yana mai juya ƙasa da yaƙin basasa ya halaka ta zuwa mai gasa a nahiyar.

Daga Tonnerre Yaounde zuwa San Siro

Tafiyar zuwa matsayin mafi kyawun ɗan wasa a duniya ba ta kasance sauƙi ba. Monaco ta ɗauki Weah daga ƙungiyar Kamaru Tonnerre Yaounde a shekara ta 1988 da kusan £12,000 kawai. AC Milan ta biya Paris Saint-Germain £6 milyon don hidimominsa — adadin da, har ma a lokacin hira, ya riga ya zama kamar ɗaya daga manyan cinikayya a tarihin ƙwallon ƙafa.

A ƙarƙashin jagorancin Arsene Wenger a Monaco ne wasannin Weah suka balaga da gaske. "Horon sa ya ba da gudummawa ga abin da na zama a yau," Weah ya ce. "Yana ɗauke ni kamar ɗansa."

Canja zuwa Milan ya buƙaci manyan matakan shari'a. Shugaban ƙungiyar Silvio Berlusconi ya aike da ƙungiyar lauyoyi har zuwa Kotun Turai a Strasbourg don ƙoƙarin ayyana Weah a matsayin ɗan ƙasar Faransa, don gujewa ƙayyadar Italiya ta 'yan wasa biyu daga wajen Tarayyar Turai a kowace ƙungiya. AC Milan ta riga tana da Zvonimir Boban da Dejan Savicevic, kuma koci Fabio Capello yana buƙatar dan wasan gaba mai iya cike gibin da Marco van Basten ya bar bayan yin ritaya saboda rauni. Roberto Baggio, wanda aka rattaba shi daga Juventus, ya kammala wani al'ajabi na haɗin kai na kai hari.

"Wasa tare da Baggio yana da lada sosai," Weah ya ce. "Shi ɗan wasa ne mai hankali da ba shi da kusan wani lahani na fasaha. Muna wasa tare, muna da alaƙar aiki mai kyau. Ina ƙoƙarin koyan sabon dabaru daga gare shi ma."

Nauyin yaƙi

A duk tsawon lokacin da yake a Monaco da Paris Saint-Germain, Yaƙin Basasar Laberiya yana ci gaba a gidansu. Weah ya bayyana nauyin tunani cikin kalmomi masu wuyar ji. "Ban san ko iyayena suna da rai ko sun mutu ba, domin ba zai yiwu a kira Laberiya a lokacin ba," ya ce. "Turawa suna da wahala sosai wajen fahimtar abin da mu Afirkawa muke fuskanta lokacin da muka yi tunani kan gida. A gare su, an biya mu don yin aiki kuma dole ne mu yi shi. Amma da sun kasance a takalma na, da sun kasance cikin yanayin kwakwalwa mafi muni fiye da ni."

'A'a, ba haka nufina yake'

Ko da yake FourFourTwo ta yi ishara da makomar siyasa — tana kiran sa mai yiwuwa shugaban Laberiya — Weah ya kasance ƙarfafaffe. "A'a, ba nufina ne in zama shugaban ƙasar Laberiya ba," ya ce a lokacin. Tarihi, ba shakka, ya nuna akasin haka: Weah an zabe shi a matsayin Shugaban Ƙasar Laberiya a shekara ta 2017, sama da shekaru ashirin bayan waɗannan kalmomi.

A shekara ta 1995, duk da haka, hankalinsa yana gaba ɗaya akan ƙwallon ƙafa — cike da buƙatun ƙa'idodin Fabio Capello, koyan Italiyanci tare da malami da yake zuwa sau biyu a mako, da ɗaukar begen ƙasa gaba ɗaya a kafaɗunsa. Ɗan waje daga gefen kogi a Monrovia da ya taba fuskantar makomar masanin waya ya zama, babu shakka, mafi kyawun ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa a duniya.