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Union of Invincible Eleven & Majestic Sports Association Inc.
, also known as Invincible Eleven （I.E.）, is a Liberian football club based in Monrovia.
They are one of the founding members of football in Liberia, and the country's oldest club.
Their home stadium is the Antonette Tubman Stadium.
Invincible Eleven is one of Liberia's most popular and historic clubs, along with Mighty Barolle.
George Weah, Liberia's most famous footballer, scored 24 goals in 23 games during a spell at I.E. early in his career, in the 1986/87 season.
IE traces its origin from Iron United, based in Clay-Ashland and Bombers, based in Monrovia.
These teams were composed of young players between ages of 13 and 20, and mostly students of College of West Africa （CWA）, St.
Patrick's High School, and Liberia College.
Both Iron United and Bombers were active between 1940 and 1942.
The young players of the two teams, especially students of CWA having established teamwork and amicable relationship, decided to pool their resources and form a single team,
strong enough to compete favorably with the older and more experienced teams like Olympics and Bame Monrovia.
A meeting with this agenda was summoned up at the residence of Joseph G. Richards's mother on Broad Street in May 1943.
At this meeting the formation of team was unanimously agree upon.
After tossing around several ideas for naming a football team, the name Invincible Eleven was agreed upon.
Those who attended that May 1943 meeting during which IE was formed included John Coleman （deceased）, G. Aaron Grimes, Hugh Collins, Sammy Hodge, Lawrence Morgan, Austin Coleman, George Marshall, Othello Coleman, Zulu Cooper and Oscar Hemans-Yankey.
At that meeting, Joseph G. Richards was elected first captain of the tea...

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