The Guatemalan news agency headlined a note “King Pelé dies”, who visited the country three times, with a review of the “history of his more than a thousand goals”, although some of these were in friendly matches and not valid for the official number.
The medium does the qualifiers for many of the greatest footballers of all time, crowning themselves world champions in Sweden 1958, Chile 1962 and Mexico 1970.
He also counts the times he played in the country of Quetzal between 1959 and 1972, twice with his Santos club against the local comunicaciones and again against the national team.
In his three guest appearances, he remembered the AGN, he scored four goals. Guillermo Enríquez Gamboa the Pantera, Gabriel Urriola the Blue Padlock and Nixon García were the goalie victims of “O Rei”.
The markers of these first games were Comunicaciones 1-2 Santos. Pelé scored against Gamboa after 22 minutes and Comunicaciones drew 1-1 against Santos with a goal after 58 minutes.
And against the team, Santos defeated Urriola 4-1 with unstoppable goals from the Brazilian at 7′ and 50′, the agency details.
In addition, he published in his note, among other things, the palmares of the stars at world championships, participation in world cups, titles in Intercontinental and Libertadores cups.
For its part, the newspaper Prensa Libre snooped in its newspaper library the publication of February 10, 1972, when the third arrival of the “King” with his team here to confront the Master Comunicaciones was a news event.
The outlet published a historical photo of Pelé with the Prensa Libre newspaper in his hands as an advertisement and another of the group arriving at La Aurora Airport, coming from Colombia with a stopover in Panama.
Also, another snap stops the game between Santos and Comunicaciones in time, but in January 1959.
In its digital edition, La Hora also paid tribute to the Brazilian legend, who made his debut for his country’s national team at the age of 17.
With a photo of Pele waving, he hailed his contribution to winning three World Cups and his name as synonymous with football excellence and as a symbol of Brazil’s “Jogo Bonito”.
Similarly, Soy502 narrated his best goals with short videos of some of those moments as well as the origin story of his nickname.
Likewise, in its digital edition, Publinews placed several informative notes with messages from personalities such as Leonel Messi, Neymar Jr. and Cristiano Ronaldo, among other footballers.
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