Updated: SPECKS OF LIFE: Memories worth cherishing
The world mourns the passing away of Pele at 82, the greatest soccer player of all time who gave Brazil three World Cup championship trophies, a feat none today and in the future may be able to duplicate.Today, young Pinoy sports fans may have forgotten how the nation mourned when Anthony Villanueva missed by a hairline snatching the Philippines’ first Olympic gold in boxing in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
How ironic and perhaps bittersweet that Hidilyn Diaz ably vindicated Villanueva’s sorry loss when she won the country’s elusive first Olympic gold also in Tokyo 5 decades and four years later. The sports youths of today are enamored by the exploits of Gilas national team members in the world stage as they see them play on TV even when they come short of taking a podium slot among the victors.
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