Tim Weah
Winger · USMNT · MarseilleTim Weah is George Weah’s son. His father won the 1995 Ballon d’Or and was President of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Tim grew up between New York and Florida, played youth soccer in both, then left for Paris Saint-Germain’s academy at 14. A real route to the top, but one shaped by a soccer family and a move abroad that almost no American kid gets to make.
- Position
- Winger
- Hometown
- Brooklyn, New York
- Born
- 2000
- Plays now
- Marseille
Every club, in order, with the years
Look at the years beside each rung. Several of them cover three or four seasons in one place, and the second-division USL turns up on four of these thirteen routes.
- 1Backyard ball, then youth clubsTown & rec soccer
New York and Florida youth soccer
Brooklyn, then Florida Childhood to 2014
Before Europe, Weah was a youth-club kid moving between New York and Florida. What was different sat at home: his father had been the best player in the world, and the coaching started young.
NY and Florida youth clubsLeft the US at 14A father who had won the Ballon d’OrParent translationAlmost no academy kid has a Ballon d’Or winner running drills in the yard. That head start is real, and almost nobody else has it.
- 2Crossing the Atlantic at 14Elite club academy
Paris Saint-Germain academy
Paris, France 2014 to 2018
In 2014 he joined PSG’s academy at 14, the club his father starred for in the 1990s. He scored a hat-trick for the youth team in the UEFA Youth League and signed his first professional contract with PSG in 2017.
Joined PSG academy at 14Youth League hat-trickPro contract in 2017Parent translationSending a 14-year-old across the ocean to a European academy isn’t on the table for most families. It took money, contacts, and a surname clubs already knew.
- 3PSG, Celtic, Lille, JuventusPro · MLS / USL
PSG, then Celtic, Lille, Juventus, Marseille
France, Scotland, Italy 2018 to present
He broke into PSG’s first team in 2018, then spent six months on loan at Celtic, winning a Scottish double. Four seasons at Lille followed, with the Ligue 1 title in 2021, then Juventus in 2023 and the 2023-24 Coppa Italia, then Marseille from 2025. Even with his start, the minutes came through loans and moves, not a straight line.
PSG first-team debut, 2018Ligue 1 title with LilleCoppa Italia with Juventus - 4USMNT and two World CupsNational team
United States men’s national team
USMNT 2018 to present
He debuted as a substitute against Paraguay on 27 March 2018, aged 18. He scored the United States’ first World Cup goal in eight years against Wales in November 2022, and made the 2026 World Cup squad on home soil.
USMNT debut at 18Scored vs Wales, 20222026 World Cup squad
Son of a Ballon d’Or winner, in a European academy at 14. A real route to the top, and one almost no family can copy.
The part worth reading is the order it happened in and how long each step took. Look at the years beside each rung above. Several of them cover three or four seasons in one place.
What a parent can take from this one
A few things worth pulling out of the route above, none of them a formula you can copy.
A famous name opened doors
His father was a global star at the same club Tim later joined. That pedigree got him seen earlier and more often than an unknown kid would be.
The move abroad was the real fork
Joining a top European academy at 14 shaped everything after. Very few American families can or would relocate a teenager to Paris.
He still had to deliver
A name gets you a trial, not a career. Weah earned minutes through loans, a league title at Lille, and two World Cup squads by performing.
Hard to copy at home
This isn’t a repeatable US-soccer blueprint. Treat it as one rare story, not the path to plan your own kid around.
One path, not the path. MLS NEXT alone holds more than 53,000 players across 318 clubs. MLS has 30 clubs and caps an active roster at 30 players, and a World Cup squad is 26. Tim Weah’s route is worth understanding rather than copying step for step, because the arithmetic between those numbers is not something a plan can beat. Here is where the odds actually land.
Which rung is your kid on right now?
Town, club, academy, college: the rungs Tim Weah climbed are the same ones the clubs near you sit on. Read the ladder, or tell us about your kid and we’ll place them on it.
How we built this page
Every club, date and figure on this page was checked against US Soccer, the clubs themselves, college athletics departments and dated reporting. The professional record is well documented. The youth years are thinner, so where a claim could not be traced to one of those sources we cut it rather than fill the gap.
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Photo: Bryan Berlin · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.