
The former Surinamese vice-president scored a penalty on Saturday in Inter Moengotapoe's victory.
At 65, Inter Moengotapoe owner and former Suriname vice-president Ronnie Brunswijk scored a penalty in his team's 5-0 league victory, adding an unusual line to his controversial career.
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Ronnie Brunswijk has a background as a former rebel leader and held high-profile political positions in Suriname while facing criminal convictions.
In Suriname, owning a football club clearly has some advantages. In particular that of being able to still put on the crampons and take penalties at 65 years old. Ronnie Brunswijk demonstrated this on Saturday October 31, during the victory of his Inter Moengotapoe against Politie Voetbal Vrienden (5-0), on the third day of the championship.
At the Franklin Essed stadium in Paramaribo, the former vice-president of the country (2020-2025) waited for added time to shine. While his team was already leading 4-0, Brunswijk took charge of a penalty awarded to his team. He transforms him. The sixty-year-old celebrates with his hands raised his first goal in the Suriname Major League, a professional championship created in 2024. According to the Goal media, he even registered himself in the starting lineup.
A journey… very controversial
Former rebel leader during the Surinamese civil war, he now holds the position of vice-president of the National Assembly. His career is also marked by several convictions for cocaine trafficking. In the Netherlands, he was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison in 1999, a sentence reduced to six years on appeal. In France, the courts sentenced him to ten years in prison in 2000. Sentences which he never served, Suriname does not extradite its nationals.
In September 2021, then Vice-President of the Republic, at the age of 60, he played in a CONCACAF League match against CD Olimpia, a Honduran club, alongside his son Damian. His team lost heavily (0-6), but the leader became, according to ESPN, the oldest player to participate in an international club competition.
What followed was far from glorious. After the match, a video showing him distributing money in the opposing locker room led to the opening of an investigation. CONCACAF ultimately excluded the two clubs from the competition and suspended Brunswijk for three years.

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