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Former Soccer Star Set to Emerge Governor in Brazil

From Adeyinka Olaiya,

Editor-at-Large, Brazil/

 

The eye of former world football and Barcelona star, Romario de Souza Faria, is set on a goal and he is highly favoured to achieve it.

 

Opinion polls monitored by NewsmakersNG favour the accomplished soccer star to emerge as the Governor of Rio de Janeiro as Brazilians vote today.

 

Romário, as he was simply called in his football days, was part of the team that won the USA 94 World Cup for Brazil.

Romario the statesman

The one-time world’s number one footballer is leading in opinion polls with more than 50 per cent of the intentions of the vote.

 

The ex-soccer star, who is also a Republican senator, is having the task of bringing back the lost glory of the financially looted tourist state of Brazil if eventually elected today as the governor of Rio de Janeiro.

 

Bebeto, who was the striking partner of Romario during his glory years as a footballer, also deposited his trust and confidence on Romario as a competent person to make a change in the state of Rio de Janeiro for the next four years.

 

Brazil, a country battling with corruption, is also having its presidential election today.

Presidential aspirants, Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad

According to the presidential opinion polls, Jair Bolsonaro who was recently stabbed in the stomach during one of his campaigns is leading with over 40 per cent of the intentions of votes, and Fernando Haddad who substituted the imprisoned ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after he was denied the opportunity to contest, is second in the opinion polls, while the former Havard Business School lecturer, Ciro Gomez, placed third on the intentions of votes.

President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
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