“Play soccer!”… ‘Goal-scoring GK’, Paraguay presidential election ‘great humiliation’ → cruel vote rate ‘failure’

José Luis Chilavert, who enjoyed an era as a ‘goalkeeper’, suffered a great disgrace in the Paraguayan presidential election.

Spain’s Marca reported on the 1st (Korean time), “Cillavert, who ran for the Paraguay presidential election, failed to record even 1% of the vote.”

According to the media, Chilavert ran for the presidency as a candidate for the Youth Party, but as a result of the official count, he received about 24,284 votes and only 0.8% of the vote. It fell far short of the predicted 3% vote rate based on preliminary opinion polls.

In contrast to his reputation as a player, Chilavert was known to be ridiculed for “go back to football” in the presidential election.

Still, he managed to save face, beating eight candidates to finish in fifth place out of all candidates.

Chilavert was famous as a goalkeeper during his playing career.

Chilavert, who ran at his peak from the 1980s to the 1990s, went through Spanish clubs such as Real Zaragoza and played an active part at the prestigious Argentinian Velez Sarsfield.

At the end of his playing career, he briefly played for French Ligue 1 Strasbourg before returning to Veles before stepping down in 2004.

He was a goalkeeper who boasted powerful and accurate kicks, and was in charge of set pieces such as penalty kicks and free kicks. His total number of goals as a player totaled 67 for both his club and Paraguay national team.

ㅋㅋㅋ벳 He was also the first goalkeeper to score a hat-trick in professional football, and the first goalkeeper to score a direct free kick against Bulgaria at the 1998 World Cup in France. He is also known as the goalkeeper who has scored the most goals on the international stage.

He also represented Paraguay in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, and took part in the group stage match against Slovenia held at the Jeju World Cup Stadium, taking charge of free kicks and making his name known to domestic fans.

José Luis Chilavert, who enjoyed an era as a ‘goalkeeper’, suffered a great disgrace in the Paraguayan presidential election. Spain’s Marca reported on the 1st (Korean time), “Cillavert, who ran for the Paraguay presidential election, failed to record even 1% of the vote.” According to the media, Chilavert ran for the presidency as a candidate…