Incredible: Vice President of Suriname is 60 years old and started an official CONCACAF – Internacional game

Football in North and Central America is in ‘shock’. Ronnie Brunswijk, vice-president of Suriname, is now a starter in a CONCACAF League match, captaining the Inter Moengotapoe team against Olimpia de Honduras. As if these unusual details were not enough, add that Brunswijk is… 60 years old and is the owner of Inter Moengotapoe!

Brunswijk assumed the country’s vice-presidency in 2020, having participated, in the 1980s, in a coup d’état to overthrow former leader Dési Bouterse, for whom he was personal bodyguard. He was a former guerrilla and was even sentenced in the Netherlands to six years in prison for drug trafficking. Brunswijk was substituted on 54′, at a time when his team was trailing 3-0.