{"id":267493,"date":"2024-12-18T15:29:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/18\/ronaldo-plans-brazil-football-take-over\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:29:23","slug":"ronaldo-plans-brazil-football-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/18\/ronaldo-plans-brazil-football-take-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Plans Brazil Football Take Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brazil legend, Ronaldo, has announced he will run for the presidency of the country\u2019s football association and wants to \u201crecover the prestige\u201d of the national team.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old, who was capped 98 times, will run as a candidate to replace current Confederation of Brazilian Football (CBF) president Ednaldo Rodrigues.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, record five-time winners of the World Cup, last won the competition in 2002 and have not progressed further than the quarter-final stage since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many decades, Brazilian football has always been the escape route for the Brazilian people when they faced daily problems,\u201d Ronaldo told Globo Esporte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the fuel of the Brazilian people and today we see a total lack of interest from the population in the national team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong hundreds of things that motivate me to become a candidate for president of the CBF is to recover this prestige and respect that the national team has always had and that no-one else has today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues\u2019 term runs until March 2026 and the presidential elections must take place in the 12 months before then.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, a World Cup winner in 1994 and 2002, is second on the competition\u2019s all-time top scorer list behind Germany\u2019s Miroslav Klose with 15 goals in 19 appearances.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Brazil legend, Ronaldo, has announced he will run for the presidency of the country\u2019s football association and wants to \u201crecover the prestige\u201d of the national team. 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