Enrique Macaya Márquez

Enrique Macaya Márquez (born November 20, 1934) is an Argentine 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.[1] He has been declared a noteworthy personality of sport journalism by the legislature of Buenos Aires, on July 15, 2007.[2]

Enrique Macaya Márquez in 2018

Early life edit

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.[3]

Enrique Macaya Márquez lives in Floresta. His wife Noemí died in 2016. They have two children: Andrea and Gabriel, and three grandchildren.[4]

Career edit

Enrique Macaya Márquez started his television career in 1966, commenting football and Formula One on Channel 7.[5] During the 1966 World Cup in England he provided radio broadcasts on El Mundo radio for Argentina.[6] In 1966 he published the book “Mi visión del fútbol" (My vision of football).[7] In the late 1970s he commented football matches on ATC.[8]

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.[9] During the 2010 World Cup, he was a commentator on Fox Sports and wrote articles to Diario Clarín.[10] Between 2013 and 2016 he was a part of TyC Sports as TV presenter of the Indirecto show.[11] During the World Cup 2014 he commented Argentina matches along with Walter Nelson.[12]

As a journalist he has covered 17 Football World Cups,[13] with the first one in Sweden in 1958.[14] FIFA confirmed him to be the journalist who covered the most Football World Cups in history.[15] On this occasion the organization awarded him a special recognition.[16] In 2018 he presented his new book "Mis Mundiales" (My World Cups), in which he described the coverages of the World Cups,[17] naming the Netherlands national football team of 1974 the best among all the world champions.[18]

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.[19]

Publications edit

  • 1996 - Mi visión del fútbol (My vision of Football)[20]
  • 2018 - Mis mundiales: de Suecia 58 a Rusia 2018 (My World Cups: from Sweden 58 to Russia 2018)[21]

References edit

  1. ^ Clarín.com (4 November 2017). "Fueron testigos y desempolvan sus recuerdos medio siglo después". www.clarin.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  2. ^ Macaya, un distinguido (in Spanish)
  3. ^ "El hombre que respira fútbol - El Diario Sur". www.eldiariosur.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  4. ^ "Macaya Márquez: "El cuerpo técnico cree que no hay que trabajar"". MisionesOnline (in Spanish). 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  5. ^ "Enrique Macaya Márquez será Personalidad Destacada". Legislature Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires. 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  6. ^ "Contratar a Macaya Marquez | World Music BA - Contrata a tu artista" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  7. ^ Lavezzi, Pocho (2012-02-13). "Los mejores periodistas deportivos argentinos". Taringa!. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  8. ^ Castro, Roberto (2015-08-04). "Fútbol de Primera: El mayor clásico del domingo". dechalaca.com. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  9. ^ "Macaya Márquez, en Congreso Nacional - El Ancasti". www.elancasti.com.ar. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  10. ^ @CapsulasFutbol (2016-06-02). "Como llegó Macaya Márquez al periodismo". Capsulas de Carreño (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  11. ^ "Un torneo rico y numeroso por cantidad y calidad de sus protagonistas | CONMEBOL". www.conmebol.com. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  12. ^ AM, Radio 1000. "Enrique Macaya Márquez cumple hoy 82 años, el único periodista deportivo en haber cubierto 15 mundiales". www.radio1000.com.py. Archived from the original on 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2020-01-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Macaya Márquez, el periodista que más mundiales ha cubierto en el planeta". CNN (in European Spanish). 2018-05-31. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  14. ^ "Macaya Márquez, en primera persona". El Gráfico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  15. ^ Aldia. "ESPECIAL | "Ver jugar a Pelé en Suecia 58 fue maravilloso, era un fenómeno": Enrique Macaya Márquez". www.aldia.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  16. ^ "Enrique Macaya Márquez visitará Pilar el próximo jueves". Diario Resumen: El Diario de Pilar (in Spanish). 2017-09-21. Archived from the original on 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  17. ^ Palermo, Universidad de. "Enrique Macaya Márquez presenta su libro: Mis Mundiales". Universidad de Palermo. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  18. ^ Burgo, Andrés (2018-04-25). "Enrique Macaya Márquez, el periodista que vio 15 Mundiales: "A Messi le falta liderazgo"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  19. ^ "Icónico Enrique Macaya Márquez entre los premiados". Aips America (in Spanish). 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  20. ^ Macaya Márquez, Enrique (1996). Mi visión del fútbol (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Temas Grupo Ed. ISBN 978-987-9164-02-0. OCLC 252714172.
  21. ^ Macaya Márquez, Enrique (2018). Mis mundiales: de Suecia 58 a Rusia 2018 (in Spanish). ISBN 978-950-49-6205-2. OCLC 1030951581.