ZURICH (AP) — Soccer great George Weah, who served as state president of Liberia, will lead a FIFA expert panel of former players advising on the fight against racism, the governing body said on Friday.

Weah, who won the Ballon d’Or as the world’s best men’s player in 1995, will be joined on the 16-strong Players’ Voice Panel by Didier Drogba, Emmanuel Adebayor and Briana Scurry, the United States goalkeeper on the 1999 Women’s World Cup-winning team.

“The panel monitors and advises on anti-racism initiatives,” FIFA said in a statement, “drives education at all levels of the game and serves as a think tank for new ideas.”

High-level player input was promised in May last year when FIFA President Gianni Infantino relaunched a coordinated global effort against racism and discrimination in

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