Ex-soccer star faces election run-off

A FORMER world soccer star faces off against a Harvard-educated woman in a heated brains-versus-brawn run-off tomorrow to decide Liberia’s first post-war president after a quarter century of coups and war.

One-time FIFA player of the year George Weah and former Finance Minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won first and second place respectively in the October 11 first round, which weeded out 20 other candidates.

Mr Weah took 29% of the vote to Ms Johnson-Sirleaf’s 19%. A simple majority was needed for outright victory.