Brazil strikers Romario and Bebeto elected to parliament
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Channel: vyganews com · 2014 · Entertainment
FORMER Brazil international strikers Romario and Bebeto were both elected to parliament in elections this weekend. Romario - an existing deputy in the lowert house - was elected Senator for Rio de Janeiro, with 63 per cent of the vote, while Bebeto, his striking partner when A Seleção won the 1994 World Cup, was re-elected as a state deputy. Andres Sanchez, the former president of Sao Paulo-based football club Corinthians, was elected to the lower house for the Workers’ Party. Romario, who scored 55 goals in 70 international appearances, was the sixth most-voted candidate for deputy in Rio de Janeiro in the 2010 general election. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the Brazilian Socialist Party ticket, and was a voiced his opposition to the World Cup being held in Brazil in 2014, telling Globo.com the tournament was ‘immersed in corruption’.
