A first division
Bolivian professional football club have signed president Evo Morales to play
in midfield at a salary of $213 per month and expect the leftist leader to make
his debut in August, the head of the team said on Friday.
The 54-year-old
football fanatic will wear No10 for the Sport Boys team, which is based in the
south-eastern province of Santa Cruz and rose to become a Division One team last
year.
"He loves soccer
and he plays well," Sport Boys president Mario Cronenbold told Reuters.
Morales will receive a monthly paycheck in line with the impoverished South
American country's minimum wage.
Cronenbold brushed
off questions about Morales fitness to play professional football. "As I
told the president, jokingly, we are not putting the president of Uruguay on
the field," he said, referring to Uruguay's 78-year-old José Mujica.
"We are contracting a person who is in very good shape and who lives
soccer."
Morales has been
president of Bolivia since 2006,
and is favoured by the opinion polls to win re-election for a second time this
year.
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