ACCRA, GHANA -- Indianapolis Colts defensive end Kwity Paye wants to put American football on the map in Liberia, the soccer-loving nation where his family hails from.
Paye was born in a refugee camp in Guinea to a Liberian Krahn mother after the family was torn apart by the First Liberian Civil War. When he was six months old, he moved to Providence, Rhode Island with his mother and his brother, Komotay.
Liberia is a soccer-loving country and their president, George Weah, is the only African to have won the FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or awards.