Roque Meza Vera, one of the goalkeepers of the Paraguayan futsal team that won the first official international futsal tournament in the world in January 1965 (the 1965 South American Championship held at the Comuneros Stadium in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay), passed away this morning on the eve of his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was highly regarded in the sports world for his work as a sports journalist, being the oldest living broadcaster of his kind. He is especially valued and appreciated for his work alongside the legendary Ovidio Javier Talavera on "Panorama Deportivo" and with another pioneer, Pedro Garcia Arias, at Corporaci\u00f3n Deportiva Fenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among his accomplishments as a communicator, one can also appreciate a magnificent work of research on the life of Arsenio Erico, embodied in the book "The Golden Paraguayan," which, having sold out, made a second edition necessary, now expanded with more historical data on the "Red Jumper.".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Paraguayan Futsal Federation, while announcing the unfortunate passing of one of its meritorious early practitioners, decreed mourning and will pay posthumous tribute to him in the official first division and youth league matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His remains are being viewed at Choferes del Chaco 236 near Juana de Lara, Kennedy neighborhood of Lambar\u00e9.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roque Meza Vera, uno de los arqueros de la selecci\u00f3n paraguaya de futbol de sal\u00f3n ganadora en enero de 1965 del primer torneo oficial internacional de futbol de sal\u00f3n que se disput\u00f3 en el mundo (el sudamericano de 1965 celebrado en el estadio Comuneros de Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay) falleci\u00f3 esta ma\u00f1ana en v\u00edsperas de cumplir 90 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-varias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13431,"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions\/13431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfutsal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}