Venezuelan football fan gets record for many FIFA World Cup tournaments attended
Hely says his favourite World Cup was a 2002 book hold in South Korea and Japan since of a organisation, planning, and liberality he received.PHOTO COURTESY:Hely Garagozzo
The Holy Grail of football is a FIFA World Cup contest hold once each 4 years and if we would ask any revolutionary football fan their ultimate dream would be to attend a eventuality once in their lifetime. But for Venezuelan businessman Hely Garagozzo, it has now turn a protocol tradition.
Garagozzo has now attended a whopping 9 of a tournaments in a quarrel commencement in 1982 when it was hold in Spain to a final in Brazil.
This singular attainment has been concurred by a Guinness World Records for a many FIFA World Cup tournaments attended by an individual.
The Venezuelan estimates he has traversed over 231,000 kilometres to attend these matches, that is a homogeneous of 5.67 full circumnavigations of a Earth.
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Despite a categorical captivate always being a football itself, he has been means to see many engaging sites along a approach such as a Roman Coliseum, Iguazu Falls, belligerent 0 in Hiroshima, and a Berlin Wall.
“It’s a sorcery of football that transcends a margin and transforms into a culture,” he said.
Hely carries a vast Venezuelan dwindle to each diversion he goes to, that can infrequently means him to mount out in a crowd. “A lot of people know me as a man with a flag,” he joked.
In further to a 9 World Cups, he also attended a Under-17 World Cup in a United Arab Emirates in 2013 as good as a Under-20 World Cup in Egypt in 2009.
He estimates that he has spent over 144 hours examination World Cup matches. In this time, Garagozzo says he has borne declare to 24 football annals that Guinness World Records recognises.
In sequence to determine his record, he submitted endless justification such as copies of his strange tickets, craft tickets, declare statements, copies of pass stamps, photographs, and videos.
Among his justification was a many costly sheet of his 35 years of fandom, a $616 stub for a semi-final between Argentina and a Netherlands behind in 2014.
Hely says his favourite World Cup was a 2002 book hold in South Korea and Japan since of a organisation, planning, and liberality he received.
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Of a 51 stadiums he has visited in his travels, he ranks Allianz Arena in Munich and a Maracaná in Rio de Janiero as his favourites.
He is now set to transport to Russia subsequent year to call his dwindle in a stands, accommodate associate fans from around a globe, and watch a tip players in a universe contest for football’s biggest prize.
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