Tim Weah builds his own legacy after George Weah's Ballon d'Or

Tim Weah’s latest club move put his career back in France, with Juventus announcing on Aug. 6, 2025 that the 25-year-old United States international joined Olympique Marseille on loan with an obligation to buy. The transfer marked another step in a path that has already taken the Brooklyn-born winger through Paris Saint-Germain, Celtic, Lille and Juventus, each stop adding to a résumé that no longer needs his surname to explain it.

That independence matters because George Weah remains one of soccer’s defining figures. FIFA archives identify 1995 as the FIFA World Player Gala and Ballon d’Or era, and FIFA says George Weah is the only African player to have won both the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year. He later served as president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024, a public life that made the family name famous far beyond the game. Tim Weah, born Feb. 22, 2000, has built a different identity through the United States men’s national team.

He made his U.S. debut on March 27, 2018, and has since become a regular attacking option. U.S. Soccer lists him at 52 caps, seven goals and five assists, numbers that reflect both consistency and importance in the pool. His defining international moment came on Nov. 21, 2022, when he scored against Wales in Qatar to give the United States its first World Cup goal in eight years. That goal was more than a statistic. It was a decisive turn in a high-pressure tournament for a player whose own lineage has long been defined by greatness.

The family connection gives that goal unusual resonance. U.S. Soccer identifies Tim Weah as George Weah’s son, and the 2022 World Cup appearance carried special meaning because George Weah never played in a World Cup during his career. Tim Weah did not inherit a World Cup appearance or a title run from his father. He earned one in the U.S. shirt, then kept building from there, across Europe and into the next cycle for the national team.