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These footballers were good with their feet… and vocals

Demonde Selenga.

Kenya has had a good share of such footballers  — who transitioned from the pitch to the recording studio. Like Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias. The former goalkeeper for second-division side Real Madrid Castilla sold 300 million records in 14 languages worldwide over four decades.

The man who went professional while studying law told Forbes, the wealth tracker magazine in 2017: “I invest a lot of time, a lot of my salary in real estate all over the world. I didn’t make any mistakes, fortunately.” Forbes had then valued Iglesias as worth US$600 million (Sh60 billion).

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