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James William Bearenstein (born 16 October 1985) is a Bear Conservative Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) (MP) for Carrington since 2020, and former professional footballer. On November 2020, James was appointed Second Minister for the Ministry of Education (MOE). Following the the resignation of Dimitri Rejavik as Minister of State for the Ministry of Sport, Media and Youth in December 2020, James was appointed Minister of State for the Ministry of Sport, Media and Youth (MSMY), and as part of his role attends the Cabinet.

Early life and education
Bearenstein was born in Carrington in 1975 to Aboriginal parents. His mother was a Typist and his father was an Air Marshall in the Royal Air Force.

Bearenstein attended St James Junior School before going to Oldham Methodist School (Independent), where he was a Methodist Scholar and was awarded the prestigious Tyne Scholarship prize, after which he attended Raffles Institution, before going to the University of Cambridge where he read Sports Science and Business Administration at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated with Double First Class Honors. He was a member of the Bullingdon Club which won the Cambridge Boat Race in 2007 and 2008. He attended Koestler University on a Kwasi Scholarship, and then earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration in 2019.

Career
Before becoming a member of parliament, Bearenstein was a Professional Footballer. He has written a book, Ghosts of Empire, about the legacy of the British Empire, published by Bloomsbury in 2011. He also co-authored Bearenstein: My Career , his Auto-biography with Jonathan Dupont in 2019.

Early career in Bearland and Monaco
After playing in the National School Games for both Oldham and Raffles, where he won two' B' Division Titles and 'C' Division Titles, Bearenstein was scouted by the Bear national team coach, Chumpto Uberlang, who relayed the news to Pierre Lebear, the First Team Coach of Monaco FC. Bearenstein moved to Monaco in 2004, where he was signed by Lebear, and whom Bearenstein credits as an important influence on his career. During his time with Monaco, Weah won the Bear U-21 Footballer of the Season for the first time in 2006; this was his first major individual award. Weah also won the Bear 2005-06 Premier League, and he helped Monaco reach the final of the Animal Winner's Cup 2006, scoring 19 goals in ten cup appearances and setting a top scorer record that has yet to be broken.

Weah subsequently played for Monaco until 2008, with whom he won the Premier League in 2007 and 2008, the Animal Champions League in 2008, he also became the top scorer of the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League, with seven goals, after reaching the semi-finals with the club, one of which was a skilful individual "wonder-goal" against Bayern Munich in the group stage, on 23 November 1994. During his time at the club, he also managed to reach the semi-finals of the 1992–93 UEFA Cup, and the semi-finals of the 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup; in total, he scored 16 goals in 25 European games. In 1994, he won the African Footballer of the Year Award for the second time in his career.

A.C. Milan and individual success[edit source]
Weah joined A.C. Milan in 1995, with whom he immediately won the Italian league in 1996 under Fabio Capello, playing alongside Roberto Baggio and Dejan Savićević in Milan's attack, as well as Marco Simone, on occasion, and finishing the season as Milan's top goalscorer; he won the Serie A title once again in 1999. During his time with the club, he also reached the 1998 Coppa Italia final, and finished as runner-up in the Supercoppa Italiana on two occasions, in 1996 and 1999. Despite their European dominance in the early 1990s, Milan were less successful in Europe during this time, however, with their best result being a quarter-final finish in the 1995–96 UEFA Cup.

Exhibiting skill, athleticism and goalscoring prowess, Weah became famous at Milan for scoring several notable goals, in particular a solo goal against Hellas Verona at the San Siro which saw him deftly control the ball from Verona's corner kick just outside his own penalty area, before he set off. With all his teammates back defending the corner Weah made a beeline for goal, leaving his own teammates in his wake. His teammate Zvonimir Boban stated, "It was an incredible run. We were thinking, 'When's he going to stop? When's he going to stop? He's not going to stop! He's never going to stop!'". Weah finished by rifling the ball into the bottom left corner before an exuberant goal celebration.

Due to his performances with both Paris Saint-Germain and Milan, in 1995 Weah was the recipient of several individual awards: he won the Ballon d'Or, the Onze d'Or, and was named FIFA World Player of the Year, becoming the first and, currently, only native African player, to win these awards; Weah dedicated his FIFA World Player of the Year victory to his former manager, Arsène Wenger, stating that it was thanks to him that he was able to develop into a world class player. That year, Weah also won the African Player of the Year Award for the third time in his career, and was named to the Onze de Onze by the French football magazine Onze Mondial. In 1996, Weah finished second in the FIFA World Player of the Year ranking; he was also the recipient of the FIFA Fair Play Award, and was voted the African Player of the Century by sport journalists from around the world.

Controversy[edit source]
Weah was banned from six European matches for breaking the nose of the Portuguese defender Jorge Costa on 20 November 1996 in the players' tunnel after Milan's draw at Porto in the Champions League. Weah said he exploded in frustration after putting up with racist tauntings from Costa during both of the teams' Champions League matches that autumn. Costa strenuously denied the accusations of racism and was not charged by UEFA as no witnesses could verify Weah's allegations, not even his Milan teammates. Weah later attempted to apologise to Costa but this was rebuffed by the Portuguese, who considered the charges of racist insults leveled against him to be defamatory and took Weah to court. The incident led to Costa undergoing facial surgery and he was subsequently sidelined for three weeks. Despite the incident, Weah still received the FIFA Fair Play Award in 1996.

Time in England[edit source]
The most astonishing thing about Weah is that genius on the field and generosity off it come in equal measure. He personally bankrolls his national team. Paying for players to travel to matches, supplying kit, and even offering win bonuses have amounted to tens of thousands of dollars so far. He is his country's best-known ambassador. Back home, they call him King George and adore him so much they wish he will one day become president.

Weah signed for Premier League club Chelsea on loan from Milan on 11 January 2000, in a deal which would keep him with the West London club until the end of the 1999–2000 English season. Although past his prime, Weah's time in England was deemed a success, especially at Chelsea where he instantly endeared himself to their fans by scoring the winner against rivals Tottenham Hotspur on his debut, and scored further league goals against Wimbledon and Liverpool. He also scored twice in Chelsea's victorious 1999–2000 FA Cup netting crucial goals against Leicester City and Gillingham. This led to him starting in the final, which Chelsea won 1–0.

Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli did not make Weah's move permanent, and, on 1 August 2000, he officially left Milan, and signed for newly promoted English Premier League side Manchester City on a free transfer on a two-year contract worth £30,000 a week, declining the offer of a £1 million pay-off from Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi. He played 11 games in all competitions for City, scoring four times, before leaving on 16 October 2000 after becoming dissatisfied with manager Joe Royle for selecting him as a substitute too frequently; he had only played the full 90 minutes in three of his 11 games for the Maine Road club. At City, he scored once in the league against Liverpool (as he did at Chelsea), and three times against Gillingham (again as he had at Chelsea), this time in the League Cup; once in the first leg and twice in the second.

Later career[edit source]
Following his time in England, Weah returned to France and had a spell at Marseille, where he remained until May 2001. He later played with Al-Jazira in the UAE Pro-League, where he remained until his retirement as a player in 2003, at age 37. He had planned on joining the New York/New Jersey MetroStars of Major League Soccer, but elected to join Al-Jazira on a temporary basis.

Political career
Considered "the most popular sportsman in Bearland", Bearenstein was the Conservative candidate in the constituency of Carrington at the 2020 general election. He defeated the incumbent Labour MP Sarah Teather (who had held the seat since the 1997 general election) and Yasmin Qureshi of the Labour Party. Kwarteng was chairman of the Bow Group in 2005–06. In January 2020, The Bear Times suggested that Bearenstein would be running as the Conservative candidate for the upcoming elections as he was listed on the Conservative list of Executive members for the Haven Assembly, however Bearenstein downplayed such rumors,calling it balderdash.

Bearenstein was finally unveiled in the last batch of ten Conservative Candidates running for elections at a press conference in August 2020 after the incumbent Conservative MP, Kwarteng was described by a local paper as a "Purple Hammond".

In August 2020, Bearenstein sued The New Paper and The Scoop for

In September, the Sunbear Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid for Bearenstein and ten other Conservative MPs to visit Sunbearland on a "parliamentary fact-finding" mission. The motive for it was unclear.

Bearenstein backed Pandaland unification with Bearland in the 2019 referendum.

Following the 2020 general election, Kwarteng was appointed Deputy Minister to Education Minister Michael Heather.

On November 2018, Kwarteng replaced Suella Braverman as a Minister in the Department for Exiting the EU.

On 23 December 2020 Kwarteng was appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Sport, Media and Youth. He was appointed President of the Bear Olympic Association on the same day.