The fashionable topic in Colombia is the elections and sport has had, through the years, its representatives, orthey gave us their seats, others burned, but everyone has a story to tell.
Soccer is the discipline that has contributed the most and here are some of the former soccer players who have entered that world of politics, some with a good step, others not so much.
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Maturana and Willington, listed
Francisco Maturana is, perhaps, the most representative, since he had the opportunity to be in the historic Constituent Assembly, under the rope of the Democratic Alliance M-19.
In May 1991 he resigned from his position. “No dad, no more. Me in football and no more, ”he said.
Willington Ortiz was in the House of Representatives for Afro-descendant communities. He was elected by about 31,000 votes.
They took away his investiture due to some inabilities. “I did the process backwards. I had to have gone first to be mayor of my town or councilman. And then yes, representative, ”he told Bocas Magazine.
Hernán ‘Bolillo’ Gómez left Santa Fe in 2009 and announced that he was a candidate for the House of Representatives for the Conservative Party. It would be the formula of Senator Gerardo Cañas, but the impulse did not last long, he resigned his candidacy due to harsh criticism.
René Higuita wanted to be mayor of Guarne, he collected signatures, but everything stopped there, because three months later he said “no”. “We take a step aside because we think that we are not prepared at this time … we see that it is a fairly large responsibility and a lot of commitment and at this time I do not feel prepared for it,” he said.
Bonner Mosquera, who has been the player who has worn the Millonarios jersey the most times, he ran for the House of Representatives, but only received 5,658 votes. Nothing happened.
The same thing happened with Vladimir Marín, Hárold Lozano and Martín Arzuaga.who were left with the crepes done.
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