Ex-Rangers bad boy El Hadji Diouf has sparked astonishment – by declaring his aim to become a GOVERNMENT MINISTER.
The retired Senegal international figured in a host of controversies on and off the field during his playing career.
Liverpool flop Diouf was involved in several spitting incidents, and was arrested several times.
The winger, 42, also kept up running feuds with Kop icons Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher long after leaving Anfield.
He helped Gers win an SPL and League Cup double during a 2011 spell on loan from Blackburn.
Diouf has now insisted he hopes to become Senegal’s sports minister – or else head of the west African country’s FA.
Both jobs would call for great reserves of tact and diplomacy.
Diouf told Senegalese media: “I could easily see myself becoming Minister for Sport, or president of the Senegal Football Federation.
“I could start work tomorrow. I don’t see why not – I am an ambitious person.
“Everything in its own time. People got to know me in a different guise.
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“That was in the past, when they only spoke about me as a bad boy.
“But El Hadji Diouf the footballer was different to how I’d be as a director.”
Senegal’s president Macky Sall previously sprung a surprise by handing Diouf a part-time role as an advisor.
The former Bolton and Sunderland winger added: “In my role as a roving ambassador for the president, I have to behave in exemplary fashion.
“I also have to represent the Senegalese FA in a worthy manner.”
A £10million Liverpool buy from Lens, Diouf also played for Doncaster and Leeds.
He hung up his boots in 2015 after a spell with Malaysian club Sabah.
Elsewhere, former Rangers wonderkid Kai Kennedy has found a new club after a summer out of contract.
Once courted by Bayern Munich and on the scouting list of several high-profile clubs in England and Europe, the winger will spend next season in the FIFTH tier of English football.
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He’s signed for York City and will hook up with former Ayr United striker Dipo Akinyemi who he faced with Falkirk in last season’s Scottish Cup.
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