Bolivia's 54 year-old president Evo Morales has signed for a professional football team in the first division. The Aptly named Sport Boys side announced that Morale would be donning the number 10 jersey and will play as a midfielder.
The club president Cronenbold believes the 54 year old, Morales has a lot to offer under the Argentine manager Néstor Clausen, who brushed off questions about Morales fitness. 'As I told the president, jokingly, we are not putting the president of Uruguay on the field,' a reference to Uruguay's 78-year-old José Mujica.
'We are contracting a person who is in very good shape and who lives soccer,' he added.
Morales is a fiery character and will cut a a formidable shape in the middle of the park, in 2006 he suffered a broken nose in a clash with a goalkeeper. and in 2010 he did this...
Evo Morales has another general election lined up in 2014. With a total of 28 Deputies selected from the city of Santa Cruz (only the city of La Paz has one more post with 29 deputies. What a sneaky chap!
