{"id":3839,"date":"2025-03-26T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:07:37","slug":"andy-brassell-george-weah-on-the-ballon-dor-wenger-and-that-solo-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/2025\/03\/26\/andy-brassell-george-weah-on-the-ballon-dor-wenger-and-that-solo-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"ANDY BRASSELL: George Weah on the Ballon d’Or, Wenger and THAT solo goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We have to ask this first. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s the best goal I ever scored in my career,\u201d says George Weah<\/a>, and it is good to have one of the immutable truths of football confirmed first-hand. We are talking, of course, about his solo effort for AC Milan on the first day of the 1996\/97 Serie A season against Hellas Verona, a goal which has no equal in the modern game.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know the one, Weah<\/a> charging coast-to-coast from one penalty box to the other on what one of his teammates that day, the great Zvonimir Boban, described as an \u201cincredible\u201d run, before smashing home to seal a Rossoneri <\/em>win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a goal that gets greater every time you watch the footage and, remarkably, it still tends to be the first thing you think of when you think of Weah<\/a>. Remarkably, because the Liberian centre-forward piled up landmarks throughout a stellar, near-two-decade career in the professional game, the peak of which encompassed 13 years as one of the most feared strikers in European football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It's been 23 years since George Weah outpaced and outclassed the seven gentleman from Verona. pic.twitter.com\/ScCo8jTQCB<\/a><\/p>— The Blizzard (@blzzrd) September 8, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>