It’s not entirely unheard of for a football club to buy ageing big-name players for their star power rather than their fading football skills.
Edgar Davids at Barnet, Alessandro Del Piero at Sydney FC, and David Beckham at any club in the last 10 years all spring to mind.
But Bolivian first division club Sport Boys set a new precedent last month when they signed midfielder Evo Morales on a £127-per-week contract.
Morales might not be a familiar name to anyone outside South America, but the reason he stands out as a somewhat unusual signing is not only is he 54-years old, he’s also the president of Bolivia. “He loves football and plays well. He’ll wear the No.10 shirt,” said Sports Boys president Mario Cronebold. “We’ll send him a list of matches and he’ll choose which ones to play in. We are contracting a person who is in very good shape and who lives for soccer.” We’re not sure if it was lost in translation, but we couldn’t find the line where he says “he’s also the President of Bolivia so we had to sign him or the rest of the team would have been waterboarded”.
It’s not the first time a non-footballer has been signed by a top-flight club – just think of Robbie Savage – but there have been cases of footballers getting into politics at the end of their careers. George Weah ran for president of Liberia in 2005, Belgium manager Marc Wilmots became a Liberal senator in his home country, and while in charge at Sunderland, Paulo Di Canio changed his name to “Mein Fuhrer” and tried to invade Poland.
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