Milan without Weah for a month

World player of the year George Weah will be out for about a month after having surgery on his broken right arm yesterday, his…

World player of the year George Weah will be out for about a month after having surgery on his broken right arm yesterday, his club AC Milan said.

The Liberian striker, who broke the arm in Milan's shock 3-0 UEFA Cup defeat by French club Bordeaux on Wednesday, was operated on at a hospital in the northern town of Pavia.

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