Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has been awarded the highest national honour of Liberia, by president George Weah.

The ceremony was held in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, on Friday.

Wenger has thus been inducted into the country’s Order of Distinction and given the title of Knight Grand Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption.

His former protégé and current Liberian president announced the move to honour him this month.

According to Africanews, Wenger was Mr Weah’s first European football coach and brought him to Monaco in 1988.

Another former coach of the president who was awarded at the ceremony was current coach of the Togolese national team, Claude Le Roy.

He coached Cameroon in 1988 and recommended that Wenger should sign George Weah, who was playing for Cameroonian side Tonnerre Yaoundé at the time.