Enrique Macaya Márquez (born November 20, 1934) is an
Argentine
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sports journalist. He worked on ''
Fútbol de Primera'' from 1985 to 2009. He has also worked for magazines Ten Points and El Campeón, and for the newspapers Noticias Gráficas, Convicción and
La Nación
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Its motto is: "''La Nac ...
. He has been declared a noteworthy personality of sport journalism by the legislature of Buenos Aires, on July 15, 2007.
Early life
At the age of 8 Márquez distributed newspapers in the neighborhood of Flores, and at 15 he was a cadet at the Radio El Mundo, where he became a commercial manager. He also created the subsidiary station in the province of Jujuy.
Enrique Macaya Márquez lives in
Floresta. His wife Noemí died in 2016. They have two children: Andrea and Gabriel, and three grandchildren.
Career
Enrique Macaya Márquez started his television career in 1966, commenting football and
Formula One
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on
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;Algeria
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; Argentina
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. During the
1966 World Cup
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in England he provided radio broadcasts on El Mundo radio for Argentina. In 1966 he published the book “Mi visión del fútbol" (My vision of football). In the late 1970s he commented football matches on ATC.
In 2000s he was a TV presenter of the Fútbol de Primera program and Sunday's classic commentator along with
Marcelo Araujo and then Sebastián Vignolo. During the
2010 World Cup
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, he was a commentator on
Fox Sports and wrote articles to
Diario Clarín. Between 2013 and 2016 he was a part of
TyC Sports as TV presenter of the Indirecto show. During the
World Cup 2014
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he commented Argentina matches along with
Walter Nelson.
As a journalist he has covered 17 Football World Cups, with the first one in
Sweden in 1958.
FIFA
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confirmed him to be the journalist who covered the most Football World Cups in history. On this occasion the organization awarded him a special recognition. In 2018 he presented his new book "Mis Mundiales" (My World Cups), in which he described the coverages of the World Cups, naming
the Netherlands national football team
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of 1974 the best among all the world champions.
During his career he worked as a sports commentator for various broadcasters such as Colonia, Belgrano, Province, Rivadavia (with José María Muñoz), Mitre, La Red and Radio del Plata.
Publications
* 1996 - ''Mi visión del fútbol'' (My vision of Football)
* 2018 - ''Mis mundiales: de Suecia 58 a Rusia 2018'' (My World Cups: from Sweden 58 to Russia 2018'')''
References
Argentine sports journalists
Journalists from Buenos Aires
1934 births
Living people
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